Phil Reisman

Playland: Safe, Secure and Vital

May

Want to get attention from the security forces at Playland Amusement Park? Just show up with a microphone and TV camera.

Today, I went there with Anthony, my cameraman, to tape a spot for RNN-TV and with the suspicison we aroused you would’ve thought we were infiltrating a sensitive defense installation. I don’t think Indian Point has better security.
First, we had to get permission to go onto the county-run park from the administration office. OK, no problem.
When we got inside, though, we were stopped no fewer than four times from various, humorless “gendarmes,” one of whom was a particularly sour-faced chap, who followed us around the midway. I asked the guy if he was listening in so he could report back to the Spano regime as to what exactly we were doing. He mumbled something about how we shouldn’t be there in the first place, and he was really just watching to see that we didn’t get run over by a maintenance cart!
What a guy—he was looking out for our safety. Such special treatment isn’t afforded to just any park patron.
Honestly, he had all the charm and humor of a KGB agent busted down to the job of guarding Kiddyland from the evils of the Fourth Estate. Bizarre.

Anyway, we got the job done. If you’re interested, the piece on Playland will air tomorrow between 5 and 7 p.m. on RNN, which is Channel 19 in most of the region.

This entry was posted on Monday, May 28th, 2007 at 12:16 pm by Phil Reisman.
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5 Responses to “Playland: Safe, Secure and Vital”

Big67 May 28th, 2007 at 4:14 pm
Funny, ...The guards at Indian Point have always been very pleasant to me.

I was wondering, do the Playland rentacops have the remote-sensing motion detectors too? The underground pop-up autofoxholes? The infrared body heat trackers? The disappearing steel sidewalks? The attack dogs? The sniper towers and the all-weather microwave interdiction line? The locked razor wire cul-de-sacs? The secret hidden firing positions? The CAS overhead eye in the sky viewing system? The bullet proof firing trenches? The Sodium arc lights? The Automatic rifles, Glock sidearms, concussion grenades, flak jackets and dual 50 calibers on all the hummers?....Spano must have outdone himself, on a single lousy $130,000 fine!

Hope you didn’t get nastied up!
Ball May 29th, 2007 at 3:51 am
Too bad you didn’t take Paul”Hombre”Newman to ride shotgun. He seems to be the new public safety expert now that he’s quit making movies.
Phil Reisman May 29th, 2007 at 10:43 am
Why yes, Big…as a matter of fact, I have it on good authority that Playland has all those things. How’d you know?
But they have something Nuke World doesn’t have. They have height requirements for the rides…I believe you’d make the cut.

Carpe diem.
Big67 May 29th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
OK, you’re forcing me to bring out the old kodachromes…..

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Phil Reisman May 29th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
I have to admit…that made me laugh out loud. Man, you’re funny.

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