New York Magazine has a rather remarkable story about a cruise passenger who alleges that her cell phone was stolen during a cruise in April on the Disney Wonder. She was able to identify the alleged thief, a cruise ship employee, thanks to cloud technology after the photos from her iPhone were uploaded to Apple’s Photo Stream.
The cruise passenger, “Katy,” cleverly uploaded some of the photos taken by Disney crew member, “Nelson,” into her Facebook album entitled “Stolen iPhone Adventures.”
The album is hilarious.
Passenger “Katy” places captions on the photos, identifying the alleged crew member thief at various ports, hanging out with his (soon to be ex) girlfriend and partying with his cruise ship posse. One of the photos includes a crowded crew party with an officer present with a caption identifying the officer allegedly as the captain of the cruise ship.
Ah, what fun – an officer partying with the crew below deck documented with a iPhone stolen from a guest.
Disney says that it placed the crew member on “administrative leave” and restricted him from guest areas.
The New York Magazine article is careful to state says that it is possible that the crewmember bought the phone from someone else, or that there is some other explanation as to why he had the phone in his possession.
But cruise passenger “Katy” is not holding back.
Her photo album has gone viral. The world now knows that things are not always as they seem on cruise ships, even on the Magical Kingdom’s fleet.
Auguest 17, 2019 Update: Time repeats itself . . .
Photo credit: “Katy”s Facebook page.