An adult male guest at Disneyland was arrested on Sunday after he stripped down fully naked and caused havoc in the California park during the Thanksgiving holiday — boarding a boat on the “It’s A Small World” ride before he was apprehended and removed from the property.
Anaheim Police Department spokesperson Jonathan McClintock told People magazine that officers “responded to Disneyland to assist Disney security with a guest who removed his clothes and was naked in or near the ‘It’s a Small World’ attraction.”
“Upon officers’ arrival, they arrested a 26-year-old man for indecent exposure and for being under the influence of a controlled substance,” McClintock added, noting that the guest was taken to a nearby hospital as a precaution.
A 26-year-old man was arrested at Disneyland after stripping down on the It’s A Small World ride. Police say he was taken into custody on suspicion of indecent exposure and being under the influence of a controlled substance. pic.twitter.com/toRd8WRNrt
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One Disneyland Resort representative told Deadline that the guest got off the attraction while it was in motion and said that once park operators became aware of the situation, they stopped the ride.
Various clips later surfaced on social media of the fully naked man. In one video he’s seen walking around in the water near the attraction.
In another video, he had on what appeared to be a pair of shorts and was off the ride touching the animatronics as a women’s voice — fellow guest Maegan Carmona — could be overheard pleading with him to stop.
“We noticed he started climbing onto the different parts of the ride, and we noticed that he was undressed,” Carmona told Entertainment Weekly.
“He just looked out of it,” she added. “He just didn’t look like he knew where he was. He looked worried. My friends and I had seen him, and it looked like he was going to jump on us.”
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Carmona said one Disneyland employee cast member “got [the streaker] to sit down for a minute,” but “after that he continued walking in the opposite direction, behind us. Once he got to a different part of the ride, he ended up walking into the water and started drinking the water, and ran off toward the entrance of the ride.”
In October, a Disney World guest decided to break the rules and jumped feet first into the World Showcase Lagoon at Epcot before Disney security got to him, Fox 35 News reported.