An intoxicated man was arrested early Monday, May 18, at Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground after crashing a golf cart and jumping into Bay Lake to escape authorities. Andrew Hall, 27, of Mentor, Ohio, had been drinking at one of the resort’s restaurants when he tried to leave on a bicycle. The restaurant manager saw him having difficulty balancing and falling multiple times, so the manager followed him in a golf cart to help.
According to the report, Hall “ran toward the cart, jumping and crashing through the plastic windshield.” Hall climbed into the driver’s seat and ran the cart into the pier at Bay Lake.
He then jumped into the lake and attempted to swim away, before he began struggling. A Walt Disney World marine unit attempted to help Hall, but he would not get in the boat and began yelling racial slurs at the crew.
The report says that Hall then “dove below the surface beyond sight” and was going in and out of consciousness when he came back up. One of the crew on the marine unit jumped in and brought him into the boat.
He was taken to a local hospital, treated and released.
Hall is in the Orange County Jail on $2,500 bail and charges of disturbing the peace at a public lodging establishment, grand theft and criminal mischief. Damages that he caused to the golf cart and the pier total around $5,000.
News source: Orlando Sentinel
