The Mercury News Weekend

Disney parks’ cleanup challenge

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For theme parks, the spreading of ashes presents a cleanup challenge and shuts down rides. Alex Parone of Saratoga Springs, New York, sprinkled his mother’s ashes in a flower bed at Florida’ s Disney World, then boarded It’s a Small World. “I was still crying. That song is playing over and over again, and there are those happy little animatroni­c things. I remember thinking, ‘This is weird.’ ” A Disney spokespers­on said :“This type of behavior is strictly prohibited and unlawful ,” and the Anaheim Police Department confirmed that spreading ashes without permission is amisdemean­or.

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