Father Thrown Out of Universal Studios Over T-Shirt

[liberty]

Father Thrown Out of Universal Studios Over T-Shirt

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A teenager's sweet 16 birthday party was cut short recently when she and her family were kicked out of a Universal Studios in Orlando. The reason? Her father's T-shirt.

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According to WPTV, a local news station in West Palm Beach, Florida, on August 24th, Christian Jarosz, his wife Diana, their daughter Sabrina, and her friend were stopped by security while they were headed to the Blue Man Group show inside the theme park. "They kicked me out because of my T-shirt," Christian told WPTV.

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The shirt in question: A navy blue T with the words, "Police" and underneath, "Street Crime Unit." Christian is not a police officer but his brother-in-law, a New York cop, had given him the shirt as a gift. Although Christian says he has previously worn the shirt to Disney World as well as other theme parks, officers stopped Christian to tell him that he could not wear the shirt in the park.

The family asked to see the policy in writing and questioned the order. They also offered to have the security officers follow them to Billabong, a clothing store inside the park, so they could buy another T-shirt. However, more security officers showed up and told Christian not to bother buying another shirt because he needed to leave the park.


photo: NBC 5The family left and although they were refunded the $500 they spent on tickets for the Blue Man Group, they say they won't return to Universal Studios again. "They even threatened to arrest us. That really terrified me. I run a school! I've never done anything against the law," Diana told WPTV.

Yahoo Shine could not reach the Jarosz family for comment and a rep from Universal Studios did not return Yahoo Shine's email, however a spokesperson for Universal Studios Orlando emailed the following statement to WPTV: "The only people we allow in our parks with shirts or other clothing that might identify them as police officers are working law enforcement personnel. This is for everyone's safety and to avoid confusion by our guests. And while we don't discuss specific guest situations, I can tell you it is our practice to clearly explain policy decisions to our guests—and it is not our practice to ask guests to leave our theme parks simply because they ask us questions. I'd invite these guests to contact us if they'd like to have a conversation about what happened."

There's been no shortage of T-shirts bearing controversial statements recently. In January, NBC reported that while on Qantas Airlines flight from Sydney to Auckland, Australia, a man named Wynand Mullins was asked to remove his T-shirt, which read, "Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die." The phrase is a popular quote from the 1987 film "Princess Bride." Mullins told Stuff, a news outlet in New Zealand, that a flight attendant asked him to remove his shirt because passengers were intimidated by the slogan, but she let the matter drop when he told her that he didn't have another shirt.

This past April, following the fatal bombings at the Boston Marathon, Nike realized that one of its T-shirts for New York Yankee fans —which bore the words "Boston Massacre" along with blood spatter—had disastrous timing. The company quickly pulled the products from store shelves, but not before photos of the shirt appeared online. And most recently, in August, online retailer The Children's Place pulled a girl's T-shirt from its shelves after a public outcry over the shirt's slogan which had a checklist that read, "My Best Subjects: Shopping. Music. Dancing. Math." All the boxes were checked off, except "math."

[liberty]

My favorite t-shirt to wear to liberal Yankee land would be white with a picture of Che Guevara and red letters that reads: Your hero Che Guevara was a murdering Communist psychopath.

[Jarlaxle]

I have a bunch of car-guy T-shirts. A while back, I was picking my brother up at the airport...it was a very early flight (I had to leave at about 5am), I was not firing on all cylinders. Fortunately, Liz saw the shirt I had grabbed and suggested I change it. Probably a good idea...it was something I had gotten on the 2008 Power Tour, with this logo on it:


(Only difference: mine has the "40 years" logo instead of 45.)

That might have caused a problem at the airport...

[Miles]

My favorite t-shirt was one a female friend of mine used to wear had a picture of a radio on it and the knobs fit perfictly on her nipples and it read, "I'm perfectly well adjusted don't fuck with my knobs". BTW she was and they were.

[Big RR]

Back to the OP, I think something else might have gone on here; if he offered to buy another shirt and wear it instead of the police shirt, I don't see why the park would have objected. Indeed, they could have kept the $500 and sold an overpriced shirt to boot.

[Crackpot]

Some people in positions that require interactions with the public are completely devoid of people skills

[Big RR]

True, and the reverse is also true, some people confronted with something they don't like are similarly devoid of those skills. Not sure who was at fault in this case, but it probably started with an overreaction by at least one of them.

[liberty]

Some people would rather exercise their power than make money, I presume as long as it is someone else’s money; perhaps if it was their own profit they would be more concerned with accommodating the customer.

[oldr_n_wsr]

I remember back in high school (mid 70's) a kid had a t-shirt that read
LETS F*CK
All that is missing yoU.

And I agree, there is something missing in this story. The guy (supposedly) was willing to go buy another t-shirt. The guards said no? Someone got a little full of themselves somwhere be it the guards or the patrons.

And who pays $500 to see some guys covered in blue paint?

[rubato]

Sounds like poor judgement by the staff.

Some people cannot function without explicit instructions for everything.

yrs,
rubato

[dales]

Indeed

[Miles]

How about, take the shirt off turn it inside out and put it back on?

[MajGenl.Meade]

That's Thursday! Doh!