No Butts About It
When Madelyn Sheaffer went to the Adventure Oasis Water Park in Independence, Missouri on Tuesday, the last thing she expected was that her bathing suit would cause a disturbance.
Sheaffer, 43, said after she got
into the pool with her niece and nephew, two teenage employees approached her
and told her to put on shorts because her bottoms were too small.
A supervisor backed up their decree
by saying she needed to cover up or leave the park. “I just felt like I was
singled out,” Sheaffer told KSHB-TV. “I felt like
it was both age and body discrimination and I felt like I could look around me
and I could see a handful of other girls half my age, wearing the same size
swimming suit and not being singled out and told to put on clothes or leave.”
Sheaffer then asked that the water park officials call the police to have her removed so that she could file a complaint against the park. On her Facebook page, she wrote that the officers who showed up sympathized with her plight: "We can't actually say anything," they said as we walked outside, (as it is a city owned park), ..but I hope from the expressions on our face you can tell how we feel," They were compassionate. They too, thought it was ridiculous.
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