Well that myth is (unfortunately) officially broken. That child was pronounced dead inside of WDW property, live to the world.
I wasn't sure if it only applied to the parks or the resort as a whole. I know The Contemporary has had a few suicides there.
I feel kind of odd talking about this given the gravity of what's just happened.
I am on a tablet but they had the newspaper story with pictures of him as a boy in the hospital. I doubt Channel 13 made it up or didn't do their homework before broadcasting the story last night
Mickey and Snow White came to see him in the hospital
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If he can't talk about the legality of it, I'm guessing there was a big settlement.