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Walt Disney World is supposedly The Happiest Place On Earth™, although it seems safe to assume one guest who recently filed a lawsuit over the “painful wedgie” they claim they fell victim to while visiting the resort would beg to differ.
Disney World goes to great lengths to ensure the people who shell out more than $100 a day to gain entrance to one of its theme parks have an enjoyable experience, but there’s obviously only so much you can do to ensure things go smoothly inside the gates of the attractions that welcome more than 150,000 visitors on a daily basis.
According to The Daily Beast, a woman named Emma McGuinness headed to Orlando with her family in 2019 to celebrate her 30th birthday at Disney World during a trip that involved a visit to Typhoon Lagoon, a water park that’s home to a 200-foot water slide known as the Humunga Kowabunga.
According to a lawsuit McGuinness recently filed, riders who opt to experience Humunga Kowabunga are told to keep their ankles crossed for the entirety of the trip to the bottom of the water slide for reasons she and her legal team claim aren’t explicitly specified.
However, the court documents allege she discovered the forces you’re subjected to on the slide have an ability to “push loose garments into a person’s anatomy” and that ” because of a woman’s anatomy, the risk of a painful ‘wedgie’ is more common and more serious than it is for a man.”
The “painful wedgie” wasn’t the only point of contention, as the lawsuit (which seeks $50,000 from Disney World) also states McGuinness flew into the air at the end of the slide to cap off an incident she claims led to internal organ damage as well as “scarring, mental anguish, loss of the capacity of enjoyment of life” on top of associated medical costs and lost income.