So I heard a possibly true story that if someone is actually born on the grounds of Disneyland (I assume it’s the California one, but it might be the Florida Disney park also), i.e. a visitor there, that the child born on the grounds receives a free pass for life and/or a lavish birthday party at Disneyland every year.
While normally I dismiss most of the legends about Disneyland as urban legends, there was no record of this one at Snopes, and it sounds plausible enough knowing some of the other strange but true stories about the Magic Kingdom.
Does anyone have the straight dope on this one?
Tim
“toy geek”
I’m reminded of baby Jasmine, who was found in 1997 in the toilet at Disney World where she had been abandoned, but no news articles on her mention anything about a lifetime pass.
This seems totally senseless to me.
Just why would Disneyland do such a thing? Do you think they want to encourage a horde of 9-months-and-counting expectant pregnant women to come in and wander around Disneyland waiting for their water to break?
That’s what would happen if Disney started to reward this by giving lifetime passes to babies born on the grounds. People will start to do whatever you reward. (Some towns that give gifts to the first baby of the new year have had to specify that C-sections don’t qualify, because greedy parents tried to schedule their C-section for 1 minute after Midnight.)
This sounds like an obviously untrue urban legend to me!
If it were true, late-term women would be lined up all the way around the park to give birth.
Cute idea, though.
Smells like a variant of the “babies born on planes get free plane tickets for life” urban legend, which IS on snopes.
And, as the others have noted, Disneyland has a DISincentive to do this.
Besides, labor is typically not sudden & quick. All the moms I know were in labor at least 12 hours, with a FOAF being the record-holder in my circle of friends at merely 4 hours. I’d imagine that in 99% of possible scenarios (woman goes into labor while at Disneyland), there’d be more than enough time to summon an ambulance and get her to a hospital before the baby is born.
Heh - I was born about 2.5 weeks early (not all that much, but still…) and from the time my mother’s water broke to the time I was born was about 2 hours. Just in time for supper, too! Though my mom’s water didn’t break at Disneyland, but rather at a local church penny sale. My mom won an apron, but nothing for life!
Still…two hours is plenty of time to get to the hospital, too!