Man on $19,500 family holiday jailed after refusing temperature check at Disneyland
Meryl Kornfield
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Kelly Sills paid a small fortune for an enchanting trip to the most magical place on Earth .
Instead, the Baton Rouge, Louisiana, resident - like several other Disney World guests who have defied US coronavirus restrictions - visited Orange County, Florida, jail.
Amid heightened precautions for the virus at the tourist attraction, Sills, 47, skipped the temperature screening required of guests, US authorities said.
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He was confronted by security about it at a Disney Springs restaurant, the Boathouse, when he yelled and refused to leave, according to an Orange County Sheriff s Office arrest report from February 13. When deputies insisted that he would be charged with trespassing, he noted how much he had spent on his holiday, according to body-camera footage released this week.
By @LaCrystalRosas
Apr 6, 2021
Kelly Sills, a tourist from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, decided to bypassed Orlando s Disney World attraction s medical screening back in February by refusing to get his temperature checked. Disney employees clearly had a problem with this so they had authorities handle him. He told them that he couldn t be told to leave because he had spent $15,000 on his vacation.
Photo: Orange County Corrections Department