The (awful and not usually very trustworthy) New York Post reports that rich New Yorkers pay thousands of dollars to an Orlando area service that rents out disabled people to accompany them to Walt Disney World in order to jump the lines. The article says that there's a word-of-mouth underground in New York's priciest private schools, in which parents pass on the details of the service, which is allegedly called Dream Tours Florida:
Passing around the rogue guide service's phone number recently became a shameless ritual among Manhattan's private-school set during spring break. The service asks who referred you before they even take your call.
"It's insider knowledge that very few have and share carefully," said social anthropologist Dr. Wednesday Martin, who caught wind of the underground network while doing research for her upcoming book "Primates of Park Avenue."
"Who wants a speed pass when you can use your black-market handicapped guide to circumvent the lines all together?" she said.
"So when you're doing it, you're affirming that you are one of the privileged insiders who has and shares this information."
Rich Manhattan moms hire handicapped tour guides so kids can cut lines at Disney World [Tara Palmeri/New York Post]
