Lynn Frey, the famous SeaWorld mime artist in Orlando, Florida, posted several videos on TikTok revealing he was fired after 36 years working at the park.
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Frey, better known as Lynn the Mime, argued he was dismissed following a disagreement with a security guard and was never allowed to share his side of the story with his bosses.
“I’m no longer at SeaWorld, it wasn’t my decision, it was theirs,” Frey said in a TikTok post that has already amassed over 2.9 million views. “I’m going to tell the story, now this is my side of the story. This is exactly what happened to me.”
Frey stated he used to drive to work with a bicycle hanging from the back of his car, just as he did “every day” at the park. After parking the car, Frey rode his bicycle past a security checkpoint, greeting several guards he saw daily.
After passing the security checkpoint, Frey recalls one of them shouting for him to come over. Approaching the guards, he was informed he was not allowed to ride his bicycle on park property.
“I’ve been riding my bike in and out of this park for years,” he told the guard, who responded with, “You’re not allowed to ride a bike.” Frey tried to get a better explanation from the guard but received repeated responses of “you’re not allowed.”
“That’s not an answer, that’s just him telling me I’m not allowed. I’d like to see some paperwork or a book. There’s nothing,” Frey explained, adding that there was no SeaWorld manual rule prohibiting him from riding his bike on the trail.
The guard allegedly told Frey to park his bicycle in a bike rack, meaning he could no longer ride his bike within the park. “I don’t park my bike there [at the bike rack] because I have a place to park my bike in my dressing room,” he said.
He said the guard went to HR and complained that the mime artist cursed at him, threw the bike, and boasted that he would get the man fired. Days after the confrontation, Frey received a call from his boss.
“He called me and said I’m no longer allowed on SeaWorld properties because I cursed at the guard. I didn’t curse at him, everyone knows I wouldn’t do that,” said Frey, who denied the accusations and claimed he was never allowed to share his story.
Thus, his nearly four-decade career at the park ended abruptly. “SeaWorld never let me tell my side of the story, they just judge and execute quickly. And 36 years at SeaWorld, evidently that means nothing to them,” he lamented.
Frey’s daughter Jenna created a GoFundMe page to help her father start his own road show business.
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