{"id":3377,"date":"2025-09-17T13:43:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T13:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/17\/scuba-thief-robs-20000-from-disney-restaurant\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T13:43:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T13:43:04","slug":"scuba-thief-robs-20000-from-disney-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/17\/scuba-thief-robs-20000-from-disney-restaurant\/","title":{"rendered":"Scuba thief robs $20,000 from Disney restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-09-17 13:43:02<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>A man donning scuba gear and a wetsuit allegedly swam up to a Walt Disney World Resort restaurant and made off with up to $20,000 in cash.<BR><br \/>\nThe man found a place to put his scuba equipment and walked up to the manager\u2019s office inside Paddlefish restaurant at Disney Springs in Florida just after midnight Monday (15.09.25), according to a report from the Orange County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<BR><br \/>\nThe daring raid happened just after midnight at Paddlefish in Disney Springs, a massive seafood restaurant shaped like a steamboat floating on a pond. Instead of mermaids or pirates, staff were confronted by a wetsuit-clad bandit.<BR><br \/>\nThe mystery man barged into the manager\u2019s office, forced two employees into a corner and ordered them to shut their eyes. He then tied them up before stuffing between $10,000 and $20,000 into his bag.<BR><br \/>\nThe whole heist took less than two minutes. The shaken workers managed to wriggle free and dial 911. Thankfully, nobody was hurt \u2014 and the thief never showed a weapon, according to deputies.<BR><br \/>\nSheriff\u2019s officials said: \u201cThis incident occurred after the restaurant was closed, and there were no patrons present.\u201d<BR><br \/>\nCCTV images show the suspect as slim, around 5ft 10, wearing goggles, gloves and a diving hood. At one point he even appeared to spray-paint a security camera.<BR><br \/>\nAfter the crime, the scuba crook is believed to have slipped back into the water like some bargain-bin James Bond villain.<BR><br \/>\nDespite the drama, Paddlefish dusted itself off and opened for lunch as usual, serving cocktails and crab claws to unsuspecting tourists just hours later.<BR><br \/>\nPolice are still hunting for the aquatic outlaw. Disney has yet to comment \u2014 but locals are already dubbing him the \u201cScuba Bandit of Disney Springs&#8221;.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-09-17 13:43:02 A man donning scuba gear and a wetsuit allegedly swam up to a Walt Disney World Resort restaurant and made off with up to $20,000 in cash. The&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3378,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3379,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377\/revisions\/3379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}