I took my thirteen year old son to the Country Pumpkins Corn Maze, and had to watch him be publicly humiliated by a grown man working at the establishment. The man was standing on an elevated platform above the cue, he saw my son and instantly began directing everyone in line to look at him. He called him Ronald McDonald and kept making comments about his clown like red hair. He then made a reference to his weight, and said he must have eaten all the hamburgers at McDonalds. He asked if he had braces. And, said he hoped he didn't have braces on top of everything else. He then told him that since he looked the way he did, he should expect to be treated this way! I have that on video! I contacted the owners of the establishment! I am waiting to hear back from them! He is just thirteen! Such an impressionable age! And this guy did this in front of his friends! I am just heartbroken! Luckily, he couldn't hear much of what was being said because of the laughter directed at him! I didn't want to bring more attention to it and humiliate him more, so I waited until we were alone to talk about it! But, that guy is so not getting away with hurting my baby! I will never attend this event again! I am so disgusted! Bullying children is never okay!
Update
Please read my earlier one star review. I was planning on making my way out to the farm again today, when the owner called me to apologize. He was super nice and super understanding about the whole situation. He explained that he dealt with the employee that was to blame for the situation. He explained that this was not their intention when they placed him in this role. He also explained that he is a father, and so he is aware how I felt watching my child go through this. He also said he and his wife were up all night worrying about what had happened to my son. It meant a lot to me that he would take this step to not only contact me, but to really communicate that he understood how wrong this employee was in his actions. I was surprised to learn that this employee was also a father! I guess he thought my son was older than he actually was, but still treating anyone like this is wrong. He also offered to personally apologize to my son. I knew my son would feel uncomfortable with that, so I just left it at him apologizing to me. I was just glad that they stepped up and owned that this was wrong and made steps to prevent this from happening again. I am still disgusted by the whole thing, particularly the way the people in line also behaved. And, I don't know that I would so quickly forgive the employee to blame for the incident. But, I am in a much better place about it, now that I know the owner really did not intend for this to happen. My son did enjoy the haunted maze portion of this establishment. This was his second time in attendance. read more