Buzzy Undressed: Theft from Behind the Scenes at Disney

is ridiculous. Um. Something else that's ridiculous is denuding a defunct Disney animatronic display and selling the clothes to an NBA star. I'm sorry, did you say denuding? Denuding a Disney animatronic? You got it? Is it, Abraham Lincoln? We're you're going to find out. But whatever it is, this is, this is ridiculous. This is a ridiculous crime. A podcast about absurd and outrageous capers, heists and cons. It's always

murder free and ridiculous. So Disney Animatronic, you know, there are Disney people, and there are like Disney apathetic people, I suppose, but they're there are Disney people in non Disney I'm not really a Disney person. Does that surprise you, No, not at all. Like I have family members, my uncle and his family, they love Disney. They go on Disney cruises. Yeah, they're all about it because it's like they can just

unplug and everything is always kind of the same. You ever ask him about these Disney cruises, Like, are there I don't know, a giant Mickey and Minnie walking around on top of the deck. I'm gonna be honest with you, the less I know the better, And I think they probably the best bet so. But like I have friend. I have a friend from high school who's really hardcore into Disney, and she and her husband, I think they

got married at Disneyland. They go on like they they're like five K and ten K runs that they do getting married at Disneyland. That's like a double commitment. Yeah, yeah, that's like do you have to dress up like a princess? Can get dissed up like Goofy if you want at your wedding? True? True? Um, so they're like Disney super fans, people who dress up as Goofy And I don't know Baba Fette for there is that a Disney things yet? Um?

I got my finger on the pulse. Um. So there are people who will go to totally too great lengths to have a part of the happiest place on earth, you know, in their life. Are you a Disney person, You're like Disney adjacent. I'm Disney. Yeah, that's the best way to put at. Disney and I have our own weird personal history. That's a whole other issue. But my family, they love Disney. So my sister used always want to go there for birthdays and stuff. Now her children like

to go there. I just took my niece down to Disneyland for two days. Let me tell you that was two days too many. So but you like you like all the Disney stuff. I like it through her eyes. To me, through the kids. It's it's fun through a kid's eyes. Yeah, okay, So, but we both have like a passing understanding of Disney stuff. We've both been to Disneyland.

Have ever been to Disney World? Yeah? I've been to both. Okay, I've not I've never been to any of the Disney Lands outside of America, but I've been to both the World in Land. I've never been to Florida full stop. Wow, you're lucky. Lucky person. I know my family live there. I'm not going to give Florida hard time, just a medium. But so let's this is about Disney World today, not

about Disneylands. Okay. So I want you to transport yourself using the power of your imagination, much as Walt himself would want you to do the imagineering. It's summer in Orlando. I can almost feel the bugs right Orlando nights to two thousand eighteen nighttime, you can. You can hear the evening song crickets, the various swamp creatures that are lurking in the dark Florida exactly. Um, and so do you have this going on? You're in Orlando, you're at like

around the outside the perimeter of Disney World. And these two baby faced yet bearded cousins in their early twenties. And I am completely serious when I say that they look like the human sons of some of the Seven Dwarves. Like, no, no jump where they a little bit height deficient? No, I mean they looked like maybe like average height, a little bit on the shorter side. But their faces, these guys, their faces are like half biker, half Disney. They're like

baby biker. Yeah, like Disney towards kind of like baby bikers right now that you mentioned it. Yeah, so that's what these dudes look like. They've kind of got like rounded nose and apple cheeks. Um. They're creeping along. They're sneaking into the Wonders of Life pavilion at Disney's Epcot theme park, and their tiptoeing towards a vacant attraction. It is the defunct Cranium Command attraction. Okay, so Cranium Command something.

They opened it in nine, It had a great eighteen year run, and then they closed it up for good in New Year's Day on New Year's Day in two thousand and seven. Okay, wait, what the heck is a Cranium Command. I mean that sounds like like a head thing, right. Yeah, it's it's like a really silly attraction where people are piled into this really narrow room that had carpeted walls always a good look, which is like a little terrifying.

You go to a theme park and you want it to be sort of like slick and modern, and instead they're just like, come into our panic room. Vacuum these walls, you hope. Um. And so they watched this movie called Cranium Command, and Cranium Command is this like oddly militaristic agency that's responsible for operating human brains. It's not a documentary, it's animated, and the movie is just playing in this

defunction like they will. They put you into this room and the screen is there and they show this film and it's animated. Um. There are a lot of like it's a dazzling array of celebrities who participated in this, like their brains, their voices, which also then means their brains. So m Charles Grown played the part of left brain, okay, and John John John Lovett's John Lavitts was right brain. Okay, I'm glad he's getting that's a great little gruesome tuos

in there. George went he was the stomach. Yeah, of course. Who do you think was the adrenal gland? Kathy Griffin close, bobcat Goldwabe, that is close. And then to keep it like super timely, um, Dana Carvey and Kevin Nelon reprised their roles as Hans and Franz to play the right and left ventricles. Was this like written well open in eighty nine, but this is like like a C list fever dream. Oh yeah, that like is an SNL like where are they now now? And oh no, that's where

they they went. They went to Cranium Command. Um. So, but they have the screen showing this film and then in the corner of the room is this character named Buzzy, and Buzzy Um is a really large, kind of Chuck E Cheese looking animatronic boy. I would say, right, so he looks like the Chuck e Cheese, like that band, that that kind of school of animatronics where it's like awkward um back and forth. Yeah, and like the weird there's like a weird look to the fit to the like.

I think the word you're looking for is haunted, Thank you so much. That's exactly. There's a haunted quality to Fuzzy Um. And so he's like this animatronic boy dressed like Steven Spielberg, wearing a ball cap and a leather ball and a leather bomber jacket. I was just getting more haunted, right, it's going to haunt your dreams. Uh So Buzzy right, he's like one of the Cranium Command pilots. And so the film takes you through Buzzy driving this little boy's brain through his day. And I don't know

the little boy's name. I've blocked it out from my own good so, but so like Buzzy is all chucky cheeseing it up in the corner and moving around. And then, um, you know, the people who are shoved into this room together watched the film and they feel like they're watching Buzzy have a kid go to class and walk down the street and play with his friends. Um, so that's what cranium command is. Okay, So Buzzy's a pilot and a Buzzy's piloting us through this boy. Yeah, Buzzy drives

this kid's brain, drives the kid's brain. And so then Buzzy has Charles Groden and John Lovett kind of like over his shoulder. Oh yeah yeah, They're like, you know, no go that way, and I'm creative, No, I'm watching. And then like Hans and friends are like, I'm having a cardiac event, like Buddy, he is only eight, you know, like there's just an audience is just it just turns

dark so quickly. That's why it closed. Okay, I can see that now, right, So they close and then now in where we are in our imaginations creeping around late night Orlando. So these d dudes they break into disney World and Epcot Center in the middle of the night, Orlando nights, sultry night, so sultry. One of the guys, his name is Patrick Spikes. He works at disney World, and uh so he's got he's got access, right, he's got the key card. He slides it through. Yeah, he's

got the map of the place in his head. He knows what security is, sure because in my mind, at night they close the gates. They just have one giant set of gates and that's the only way in or out of Epcot and they wrap like heavy naval chain around. It takes like, you know, seven eight guys do you imagine, like in a comically large lock and like Mickey has to actually come out and use his own key. Yeah, like the key to the city. And it's like and it gleams, it's golden. And they had but they didn't

have to cut through that. Pat Pat Spikes had the old key card swipe away. The other guy has the worst name, And I'm so sorry for this man. Um Blaton, Taunton, Blayton, Taunton, Blaton, Taunton. Yeah, sorry, my mind goes right there. The name. He's part of the canon. He's part of the Star Wars universe. It just sounds like a fake name. It totally sounds like a fake name. But he wanted a fake name. This man doesn't work at the park, all right, right, cousin

doesn't work at the park. Uh Patrick, Patrick works at the park. He gets his cousin Blayton Taunton m a fake I D. And he uses a name like a Disney idea. Yeah, like an employee I D. He uses a fake name for that. He uses the name Jack d Morrow, Jack Demorrow. It's like Jack Sparrow, but not Jack Sparrow mashed up with the world of Tomorrow Tomorrow or like demoralizing. So they've they've both got these I

das and they're rocking through they get in there. What do you think they do, these two, these two little sprites, when they get in there, finger pant the walls. Yeah, they just do they go nuts. Like in my I'm wondering, did they dance? Did they did they skip around? Did like a music montage start of them just enjoying their times and like punching their fists in the air and excitement. Did they just snap some cool picks? Did they do it for the Graham? Who knows? I think they did.

But they actually did some illegal stuff too, Yes, and that's why this is a ridiculous crime. So let's take a break. I'm gonna come back and I'm going to tell you all about the ridiculousness of this crime. Cool back in a flash, alright. So Patrick and Blatant they creep around and they make their way to the Cranium Command exhibit. They're on tiptoe the entire time. They get to the three pound Buzzy installations. So I told you

it's like a boy pilot, but it's huge. That'd board pilot wearing a giant Steven Spielberg leather bomber jacket and a giant baseball cap, hanging out with John Lovett's totally get to Buzzy and they very gently remove his headphones and remove his hat in the seductive manner. I guess I don't know. I wasn't there. I just so they're not attack like it's legitimately like they must. They have like a skeleton of this animatronic Buzzy and then they

put the flesh on it. The rubber flesh smash my boy, because at one point someone stole Buzzies hands and they were just like metal, you know, the under pinnings. Who knows, they never recovered Buzzies hands. But anyway, so they have like a rubber flesh suit for Buzzy. Then then they dress him much like an undertaker would dress a corpse. Someone at Disney had to dress Buzzy to begin with. And then these two clowns come in and undressed Buzzy,

I know. So they take off his headphones, they take off his hat, and they strip him of his bomber jacket. That stuff alone is worth seven thousand dollars. Get out well, I mean like a custom made giganto. It's huge shuite. And then they steal away into the night. Now, before they had done all these other things with cranium command, they didn't just steal Buzzies clothes. They went into the Haunted House attraction and they took some wigs and some costumes.

I didn't know all this stuff can be removed. I always just assumed it was like somehow a fixed did these characters like figure it right, Like you're in the Haunted House attraction and like someone just like loses it. They're terrified, and they just project how vomit onto one of the Victorian ladies. And then they're like, okay, well, let's they didn't really hit the dress, but man, this

wig and so they're like they closed the attraction. They take the wig off and they clean it tenderly, gingerly. I just have I have a problem where I like to imagine horrific scenarios and I let them run in my head in vivid detail with logistics. It's what it's what the docks call spiraling thoughts. So I'm just thinking of, like, what what is the terrible way that you would have to do? You know, like I could go, I could

go so much worse than that. But anyway, so they do they have to like maybe one component gets dirty and has to be replaced, or like you know, little creatures start to live in the wig and then they got to swap it out. I don't know, I don't know. Man. They're very particular. I mean they want everything to they want everyone to have this really wonderful experience. Oh yeah,

and they're like fascistic about cleanliness. So like Jney mind, you can't find trash if they can help it, right, So they don't want raggedy wigs in the Haunted mount although would kind of make sense if everyone's wig was raggedy if it was haunted. But you know, I'm just saying we have to keep the shine on it. So that's a classic attraction, the Haunted House, right. But what's the story with Patrick Spikes. Yeah, let's get back to Patty.

He ran a Twitter account that posted behind the scenes photos of the park, and the Twitter at count have the handle of backdoor Disney. I think I saw that porno back it's like all sorts of copyright. It's featuring Nicky Rat Yeah, back door Disney. So it was this really popular Twitter account and that is a great name,

back door Disney. Yeah, because this is so naughty. Um, he would take pictures back behind the scenes, and um, you can still see it because you know, the Twitter accounts still exists, and they just say someone else is apparently running it, but that's you know, to be determined. I think I think it's true. I think from what

I understand, Patrick has nothing to do with this anymore. Um, but yeah, it has like really cool pictures of what it looks like when you're inside a ride looking out at at people going by, or inside of attractions, like behind the sets of things, and so particularly for those who just absolutely love Disney to get a glimpse of something like how how this is made? So but you

can still look at it. If you go to Twitter today, you can pull up backdoor to oh, I'm going there as soon as we're done, and then you're gonna wind up on a watch list, like I'm not already on a watch list. That's so true, but it'll be a whole new one. Uh, inside of rides, backstage areas. It also would have the abandoned features because people who work in the park they can still get into these empty

spaces just for maintenance purposes. And also as they retire an attraction a lot of times they'll prep them for new temporary ones or whatever. So people have access, they can take cool pictures of stuff. And this is a big thing poking around behind the scenes at theme parks, especially in abandoned areas. So you said, like you've gone through like basements or something, or people's homes. So there's like tunnel tunnels under l a that have been through.

There's all sorts of like basements like, um, you went to U c D. Underneath U C D either are a bunch of connecting basements, So we used to run through those and like people's homes when they haven't been there. I've done some of that as well, although I think

they don't call that urban exploring, right. I went once, um in the like really rural south to an old courthouse that was like, yeah, it was like the original courthouse in that county, and but it I guess the the original original one got burned down when Sherman came through and so this was like the replacement. But then there was a modern eighties block building down the road. But I went into the old one and uh, someone said, you want to check out the basement? Like no one,

no one goes in the basement. I'm thinking, like, sure not, why does no one come? So I kind of go down there and they're like there's no lights, but you know, you can kind of peek around. It is like pitch black. I couldn't see anything, and we really weren't supposed to be in there, and I'm like thinking, there's so much that can go wrong at this point. But in my life I've also ignored that feeling. And just kept doing

what us doing. So that's what I did. I go down, but luckily I didn't step all the way off there, like off the steps into the floor. I went down to like the last step, and it was so ink black, I couldn't see anything. I get my phone out and I take a bunch of pictures with the flash on, but like you know how like you go from that darkness to the flash, you can't really process it. Um. I go back upstairs and I look at them and there's like two inches of water on the floor and

a bunch of snakes. Oh god, I knew that would do it for you. And then all this like equipment along the one wall that's like from an abandoned Optometris office, Like I'm measuring machines. You found I totally did. I totally didn't. I'm gonna start charging admission. Yeah. So that was my That's my urban if you want to call it exploring experience. But so a lot of people do that, right, So we have all these urban explorers and they go

into these abandoned areas, like these guys do photos. They take photos, they post them on Twitter on backdoor accounts, um and then some of them. They take trophies with them, much like a serial killer. And in the case of Patrick Spikes, he turned those trophies into profit. Oh so Spikes he trafficked and stolen Disney goods on eBay. How the hell do you pull that off? I mean, I figured Disney on it and we know about all right, So,

like he wasn't just stealing. He was a fence for the Disney dark market man, right, Patty Blatant or whatever your name is. Um, So he's stealing all this stuff and he's flipping it on eBay. You know a good customer of his, You know who that was. Um, I'm gonna guess Sebastian Gorka, Sebastian Bach from skid Row. Oh, of course, no NBA player, Robin Lopez, big Disney head, total hardcore Disney freak. So he's buying black market Disney

goods off of eBay. He bought Buzzies outfit, and I'm wondering, is it because that's how he could get a bomber jacket that would fit he by he pays eight grand for Buzzies outfit, the headphones, the hat, what are you going to put it on? And pretty much like what do you have this big enough? That's what I want to Does he does he like frame it in a shadow box or something? Is it hanging? Does he wear it for special does he sleep in it? We you know,

I don't know. That was never revealed. He also he didn't just buy Buzzies outfit like he was a good customer on eBay. He bought a couple of signs from the park. And then what I really like is that he bought a Disney employee uniform from Patti Spikes. Okay, so wait, NBA player who I am a suming is tall? Yeah, bought Disney uniform ployee uniform. He makes good money. Why couldn't he just have one made? He wanted the offense, he wanted the sweat, he wanted the Disney particulate matter,

like he wanted the real deal. I mean it's like, yeah, like, okay, I could I could just go buy a baseball and say this was you know, hit by I don't Reggie Jackson and and look, I know I have it. Or I could have Reggie Jackson signed a ball and be like, yeah he hit whatever. He wants a tentico. He wants the real deal. But this has me wondering what is he doing with what's he doing with this? Is it something like how you know athletes like frame their jerseys

and stuff like is it? Does he have it framed hanging in his his sparsely filled mansion and I don't know, I don't know. So anyway he buys, he buys the employee uniform. Maybe he puts it on in prances around the house and it's like short shorts because he's so long legged and it looks like, you know, big guy, a little dust or what Yeah, big guy, little pants on this case. Um. And then remember the wigs in the costumes from the Haunted House, right, Spikes sold those

on eBay to an accountant in winter Park, Florida. Wars out, Yeah, almost nine thousand dollars. I'm in the wrong business. The dress alone was a thousand dollars. Now what's that guy? What's that accountant doing with that? Yeah? Well, you know, we got all sorts of questions about the Disney fans, but I mean, and no judgment, you know, but like maybe he meets up with Robin Lopez at like premier Disney insider events that they have at like palatial estates. Well,

the passwords to get in. If there are Disney fences for stolen Disney goods, you have to assume they're also occasionally meet ups where people get to show off they're stolen Disney goods in places they can never else them off. They totally see that. So it seems like they would kind of have like a place where they're like I think the people who eat bush meat that you can't just go to a restaurant in order bush meat, right, you got to go to a special place, see bush meat.

So maybe they're like over there having their little special Disney dinners together. It's wearing their special outfits, That's what I'm saying, and they need like a password to get in, and they wear masks and it's very eyes wide shut, but Disney, but make it Disney Disney. So like all these all these hijinks are going on, but you know what, pretty soon Disney realizes their stuff is gone. Oh yeah,

you're never getting one over on the mouse House. No, they file a police report in Orlando's Finest get on the case. Oh, they should have fouled it with the Disney police. Do they have that they have a security do they have a Disney jail on site. No, I assume, so I think people get arrested and put in that. I know that the Philadelphia Eagles have a jail in their stadium really because their fans are so wild, but there has to be at Disney jail. I'm going to

tell people that I've done a dime. Inde J's standing on my head in the Juny jail exactly, exactly, So Disney's. Disney is upset now because they realized this my stuff's gone. That was Mickey, but it was Nicky. Let's be real. Um So I'm gonna tell you the next part of our saga when we come back from this commercial break. All right, I can't wait. All right, So, if you're going to steal something, it's probably not a good idea to post pictures of the purloined items on Twitter. Let's

just put let's just lay that groundwork. That's just like criminal one O one one O one. Do not create evidence against yourself. And I believe that slide six on the power point for your Ted Talk Criminal one memory. I have it totally steered into my brain. I have a good memory. It's all the bush meat. So and also the place I would just say. You know, as a casual observer, the place to sell high profile goods

is not eBay. No, it's a deep pop. Everyone knows this or the like trunk of something at a flea market. But I don't want to get away with the big ticket items. No deep pop it is. Now this guy goes to eBay right now. Disney famously litigious. They don't mess around. They're a juggernaut, a cultural juggernaut, and they want to protect that. Over the years, their legal team has filed so many suits, and I'm going to give you some highlights of some of my favorites. You know

how I love lawsuits. You are a lawsuits fanatic. Um. One time they sued a preschool over a mural that featured Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy. I literally was about to make a joke that if you painted drawing they don't like on your school, dizzy will come and sue you. And they did. Literally they did. They totally did it, and like then, I just like the kids were probably standing there weeping while the custodian guy is

slowly painting over it, raising their dreams. Yeah, or they maybe they instead of getting rid of it because it was such a huge effort. They just like doctored it to make them slightly different, to get outside of the copyright extra legs and like different colors. Yeah, octomickey Um. One time they suit of family owned party business for using knockoff Winnie the Pooh costumes for they out there and like they're mini the Pooh and like or like,

but like these must have been like handsown costumes. So imagine you go to the party store. You're like, oh, we've got this huge costume party coming up. Dressed to impress, is what the invitation says. I'm going as Winnie the Pooh, you sweetheart, are going is Christopher Robin, and we're just going to show out. And then but then you know your budget is in the way. So you go to

this family owned party business. They're like, don't worry about it, mom, can sew you up a little Winnie the Pooh costume? Do you have a bear costume and a short red shirt. That's all that's all you need, just like porky picking around pants. And then your picture is out there and then they find out they source it down. The Disney sleuths track down the business and sue them. Um, this one.

I think you're really going to dig They Disney suit a Lightsaber a cat me that offered Jedi training classes. I'm laughing, unpacked the whole ends of that. The Lightsaber Academy do they have scholarships? Like I have a diploma from the Lightsaber Academy. It's in Latin, which means it's a Roma therapy and lightsabering. A certificate of Achievement in a Roman therapy from Lightsaber Academy, an accredited institution. But they had Jedi training classes. Think about the crew of

winners in that class. I'm not talking about any children. I'm directing this purely talking about my friends that I know. You're talking friends by grown men. Friends you go down and want to play with lightsabers. I understand what you're doing with the but I'm going to let that one go because they are ridiculous, you know what, And there's nothing wrong with that, no judgment. There are my friends. So so these are these lawsuits. They a sling lawsuits

because they you know, they got a legal department. Nobody's business. They'll throw them around them in the Scientologist, oh boy, they got lawyers for days. Yeah, but like, keep that thing on me with Disney. They mean, they do have a point. I mean, they they got to protect the I P. Yeah, scientology is just a different story, right, So now they're going to come after you by the way. Um So Disney also huge employer and source of revenue in Orange County, Florida. Um, I have a theory that

about counties called Orange County. What is your theory that I don't want to go there? So Orange County, New Jersey, Orange County, Florida, Orange. They any New York because they want New York. New Jersey probably is New Jersey, Orange County New Jersey, York. I don't know. There's probably one in every state, obviously the one in California. I know you don't like. Yeah, now we're saying, we're hearing that you don't want no offense to Orange County. But but

all offense to Orange County in all the offense? Um, yes, But I mean I don't know, it's just suspect suspect and and they probably feel that way about me. Uh. Orange County Sheriff's Department, though Orange County Sheriff's Department in Florida, they were hard on the case. Disney calls they jump so it wasn't that tough of a case. Though. It wasn't like we gotta call in. Homeboy was posting it all over Twitter. There was a total digital footprint for this.

You know, he's got eBay postings. They can tell who bought everything. So in December, so this happened like in summer December. They bring Patty Spikes in for questioning and Patrick is being a total tough guy in the interview. It's like squat, He's like kind of slouched down in his chair. Cops asked him about his car and whether they're pictures of the stole and stuff on his phone done cold. He's like, I don't have to tell you anything. Yeah. In Disney jail, he even says like he gets straight

attitude with this Sheriff's detective. He's like, this is this. I'm gonna quote and I won't do a voice, but I will quote. How about this. I'm about to walk out, and if you guys want to talk, I'll come back with my attorney. How about that? No, don't go away. Because the entirety of the Sheriff's Department is made up of animated Disney characters. Space Jam over the table, Yeah, He's just like Nicky's got like a cigarette dangling and

he puts the cigarette out on Patrick Spike's hand. He's playing hardball by that heart didn't like how great is that? He's like, how about that? Like, Okay, they know you have this stuff. They want to check your car, they want to look at your phone. And so the officer replies to him, okay, keep the car there, we're keeping your phone. Now. This panics Patrick Spikes. So this is what does it? You can watch the video of this

whole interaction video of Yeah, it's really good. So he panics. Right, They're like, you know, we're taking your phone, and he's thinking the links, you can't take my phone. Who knows what's on there aside from my illicit goods. So he grabs the phone and then gets into a scuffle with the cops. Wait and he's under arrest at the time. No,

he's in for questioning. But even so, like, if you're in an interrogation room at a police department, do you really think you're going to wrestle a cop and win in the police stage in the police station, in the interrogation, I say you do win the phone, you still got to I mean like I could do it. I could not. I could totally, but I don't. Do you know how many speeding tickets I've talked my way out of, Oh, like I know, I've hit my like spiritual quota on them.

I don't think I'm ever gonna be able to get away with it again. The first thing you do is, you know you have like radio off hands at tenant too. Uh when they come up, put your gun away. I just shoved my gun and my declotate, I know. I they come up and I and I they'll say, like, you know, do you know why I was I pulled you over? Which is the most infuriating question ever. Yeah, like oh you why am I supposed to tell you?

You don't know? I could? You're looking for an answer here, But like okay, so I let that part go wash over me like a smooth stone in the river. And they'll say and and do you know why I pulled you over? And I go, you know what? Yeah, I was speeding. And they're always shocked because no one ever admits it, and they're like really, I'm like, yeah, you know, it's all me. Wait a minute, I've tried this. It doesn't work for it well, I think that you also have to be a white fee mill with um an

ample bosom. Oh, I know, we'll work on that for you, but um yeah. And then like one time, I actually fed the line of like, you know what, my family is going to give me such a bad time about this because I am notorious for driving like a grandma and they're never going to believe I got stopped for speeding and he thought that was absolutely hilarious warning ticket by Wow. Yeah, it's different now I do drive fifty five. Now I don't. I think I've I've run too close.

I flew too close to the sun. You've done with your Sammy Hagary. I'm totally I'm gonna put that Sammy hagar time behind me. So anyway, let's go back. I'm sorry. Patrick Spikes Disney World Peace Spikes up in the interrogation room wrestling wrestling with cops. Who wins? The cop wins um. Spikes then asked to call his mom after his tough guy routine. What's a quick pivot? Yeah, he's like pinned on the ground. He's like, well, then can I call my mom? And well, in this case, let's back it

up for this scene, he wears a retainer. Can I call my mom like that? Okay, that's what happens there, if that happen. Yeah, so animated Mickey Mouse has n't pinned like his knee in the center of his back, and he's like the Goofy's just like getting off on the whole scene, watching it, like loving it. Patrick Spikes is like, can I just at least coming mom? Isn't You're not going anywhere? It's the best video. You're You're going to get us sued by Disney for copyright. Come

after me, mouse House. We gotta pass you know this? Um, So there's there, there's this whole tustle, and the dusk clears and he says, can I call my mom? And the cops says you're an adult? Correct, you're not. You're not calling your mom? Stay here, right? He is a grown man, grown And so when the cops says that to him, like, what would be your response, I mean, if you survived, if you survived a tussle with the cops, give me a second, thank you, thank you? Right? Um?

Patricks Spikes has a full blown hyperventilating panic attack at this point, just quite the criminal court circuits and the cops are freaking out. They're trying to calm him down. He's like your tack, I can't breathe and they're like, you know what, calm down, which never calms anyone down, by the way, I got down, And they're like rubbing his back. You know you're gonna be okay. I just need you to breathe. And they eventually have to call E. M. T. S To come and like they should have just called

his mom. They should have hit him with a trank dirt, right, um, much like Billy Idol has been hit by a trank dirt before. They didn't call the mom. They release him, but they take his phone, which then leads to him getting charged with and cousin blaton Oh yeah, blat yeah, Pat and cousin blatant tonton. They get charged with grand theft, dealing and stolen property and burglarizing a structure. Wow. Yeah,

so that three felonies are too sure. And then they took plea deals and they wound up having to pay all of the money back, which they did, and do two fifty hours of community service, which they did in the allotted time period period. It's a lot of trash to pick up, so they avoided probation because otherwise, if they didn't hit those hours and they didn't pay the money back, they would have had like probation. So in between his panic interview and the arrest, something else happened.

Oh um, let me guess his mother got arrested. While it is for um, Buzzy the whole of him went missing, totally gone. Some is like, let me get a piece of that. Yeah, Someone's like, now he's naked. Now I really so Buzzy's gone. Spike says I didn't have anything to do with it, and the cops couldn't attach him to that theft. Um, how much do you think a Buzzy animatronic figure is worth? Oh? Man, I know in

US dollars, not bitcoin. Okay, that's gonna make it easier. Now, I know it's going to be a bunch more than I think it is. So let me go four hundred thousand dollars down and don't come. I will not, I will not. Who's going to pay for h That's just the cost of to make it, think, because it's like a customed thing, right, Like I guess that was that's the valuation. That's what they talk this is what we got taken for um, and so it's can't be found.

Three pound animatronic naked little boy with no hands gone gone for good. Um. So the Orange County Sheriff's Office, they did a great job on the Patrick Spikes case. I think, great video. Um, good job to the animated deputies. Um. But they just couldn't They couldn't crack the Buzzy case. Um. And so they had it for a long time listed as open and inactive, just meaning that you know, they just didn't have any leads, but not quite a cold case like a warm case. Yeah, now it's a cold case.

They changed that in April to just inactive, totally never going to see Buzzy again, can't be closed, can't be solved. Um. It's probably in some professional athletes man cave, totally nude, totally totally legal, totally legal, totally cool. Um. There's there are some like Internet rooms that Buzzy wasn't missing at all,

and that Buzzy is just in the park somewhere. Oh, insurance scam, you know, yeah, but I don't don't buy that, right, And you know that that's the one of the kind of interesting things about all these is that, Um, there are so many rumors about the abandoned pavilions and the abandoned you know features and stuff. Um. And when a you know crew comes in moves things, maybe other employees aren't aware that that part of an exhibit has been moved and they all think, oh, it's stolen or it's

been damaged. So there's not there's so many employees, you know, so sometimes the right hand is knocked to the left hand. Um, And so I think that kind of drives some of the rumor mill in that. Um. So, yeah, buzzy still out there. That is remarkably ridiculous. Totally is ridiculous. So what's our ridiculous takeaway here? Uh, don't mess with the mouse house, so you're gonna get burnt completely completely. Patrick Spikes said that Walmart had better security than Disney, and

that seems weird to me. It seems like it seems like a huge disc But I also don't believe it. I mean, he was an insider. He was a backdoor boy for Disney, and um, I I'm sorry. I tried to hold a he did, I know, the back door boy for Disney. That's that's tough. But to throw that out there. I'm sorry, uh but yeah, so he but like Walmart, you know, I would imagine that Disney has

better security than Walmart. Um. But I think, like the ridiculous takeaway from me is that people will go to great lengths to secure a piece of their childhood, even if it's just like a gigantic bomber jacket. But it means so much to someone that they'll they'll take all these risks. Let's think about the accountant and the NBA star. They had to know that they claimed no I was told that this was you know, something that had been retired or you know, that there was some sort of

other provenance that was making this an acceptable purchase. But they had to know it's a little bit of a shady deal to buy it from some rando on eBay. Take a businessman going into a different town, sitting at a hotel bar and having some beautiful, charming woman talking to him and never suspecting that she's a sex worker. Yeah, buddy, have you seen yourself? Because she doesn't come with a certificate of authenticity like you, kind of directly from Disney.

So yeah, that's it. That's buzzy. That's the ballot of buzzy. I love buzzy. I love robot crime, so yeah, robot crime is pretty good. Um, so that's it. You can find us online at Ridiculous Crime on both Twitter and Instagram at ridiculous Crime. If you have a tip for us about a ridiculous crime that you'd like to hear about, or if you want to lay bear your soul and confess to a ridiculous crime, you can email us at ridiculous Crime at gmail dot com and don't be the

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