Browsing aimlessly can lead to amazing finds like this one: The heroic exploits of a couple of brave heroes, intrepid documentors of the greatest attraction to ever exist at EPCOT.
Way back in the 90s, two guys, not too much younger than two other friends who at roughly the same general time period religiously frequented the theme parks of Orlando almost every day (namely Jay and I), snuck behind-the-scenes of the iconic "Horizons" dark ride to take pictures and video of the attraction before its inevitable closure. They progressed from merely riding the ride repeatedly while snapping flash pictures of the exhibit's many scenes, to jumping out of the slow moving cars into the the scenes to get better close-ups. They eventually were able to methodically plan out the ride's timing and capitalize on its near-closing hour low-passenger capacity in order to actually spend hours hidden away from public (and castmember) view.
Thankfully, these guys were not doing this to be malicious punks with mayhem and vandalism on their minds, they truly were in love with the attraction and wanted to see everything and record that for the future. What a better goal when considering the themed spirit of the ride itself: the imagined wonders and achievements of mankind in the then-upcoming 21st century?
Hoot (Dave Ensign) and Chief (Ed Barlow) were childhood friends, living in Central Florida and met when they were 15 at Disney World's Magic Kingdom. You can read all about them here and let me tell you, their story is quite awesome. They were true friends and I can tell you I cried for hours when I read that Chief would lose a long battle with cancer at the age of just 46 in 2014. At the dying request of his best friend, Hoot snuck his buddy's ashes into the Magic Kingdom and deposited them near the spot they'd met some 30 years before. The video below documents that act of undying devotion and friendship...and a bit of mischief.
Some people, no doubt, are skived out by the thought of human remains being scattered in the Disney parks but in the clip you see he dropped them in a patch of landscaping by the side of the path. The daily rains of Central Florida would soon have melted them into the mulch and dirt out of "harm's" way. Of course had Hoot been caught, he would have not only been banned from Disney for life but probably arrested. I for one applaud the move. Fuck the risk.
Like the escapades years earlier that he and Chief (and other friends they incorporated into their adventures) undertook, it isn't harming anyone. If you don't take risks in the name of love, then what else should you take risks for? And if you seek a totally risk-free life, then you may get consigned to meaningless boring existence. How is that living?