2 Year Old Dragged into Water by Gator at Disney Resort

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I bet disney takes precautions to keep animal kingdom and the safari lodge free of gators to protect the animals. Too bad they don't protect the baby humans.

Please don't go outside tonight. There are mosquitos.
Please don't go to the beach this summer. There are sharks.
Please don't go to Australia. I can't even tell you the dangers there.

[Anonymous]

What a horrifying tragedy.

I too read that the child was wading at the water's edge. I don't know if I would've assumed there were no gators, being that it's Florida, but I've lived in FL and my parents live in Charleston so I'm familiar with how prevalent alligators are.

In my parents' community, where there are lots of lakes and ponds, each body of water has several bright yellow warning signs that read "Alligators may live here" along with other info about how feeding gators is illegal and a fed gator is a dead gator. They do remove them if they reach a certain size, otherwise they leave them. Small pets have indeed been taken, but fortunately no people. Sounds like it's time for Disney to do similar signage.

[Anonymous]

How horrifying. I can't imagine how the parents and siblings feel, or how they will cope with this. All this lawsuit talk.... I mean really? How will a bunch of money make these parents feel any better? It wont.

[Anonymous]

The fact that Disney World is in Florida, where gators are prevalent, and that it has been opened almost 50 years with no incident such as this tells me that what they have been doing has been working.

Once again, this is a horrible accident.

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Anonymous wrote:Are we certain that no signs are posted?

Every article and every Commentor who has been there has said no signs.

Every article, CNN, etc said signs posted "at every vantage point."

Link? Because I'm reading CNN and the only signs they mention are no swimming signs.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is a 2-yr-old up at 9:30?

that's your response to this tragedy? are you the spawn of trump?

I guess, and no. Gators will eat what they eat. Keep kids away and they won't get eaten.

Why would anyone expect gators to be at disney? How would you know to take precautions at an amusement park or resort?

They spray for mosquitoes but don't remove gators? WTF?

Have you never been to Florida? Gators are as common there as deer are here. They can be found at every resort and golf course.

You realize Disney is a tourist resort and the majority of people there haven't been to Florida and would not know this, right?

[Anonymous]

The skeptic (and prosecutor) in me wonders if anyone actually saw the child on the beach other than the parents. The whole story is strange. Why is the four year old in the play pen while the baby is allowed to wander alone in the water in the darK?

Otherwisee, it is just a horrible tragedy. Disney has been at that location for more than 40 years. If they were truly negligent, this would not be the first incident of this kind.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is a 2-yr-old up at 9:30?

that's your response to this tragedy? are you the spawn of trump?

I guess, and no. Gators will eat what they eat. Keep kids away and they won't get eaten.

Why would anyone expect gators to be at disney? How would you know to take precautions at an amusement park or resort?

They spray for mosquitoes but don't remove gators? WTF?

Have you never been to Florida? Gators are as common there as deer are here. They can be found at every resort and golf course.

You realize Disney is a tourist resort and the majority of people there haven't been to Florida and would not know this, right?

How can people NOT KNOW about alligators in Florida? Their biggest college football team is the GATORS. A huge chunk of the state is called ALLIGATOR ALLEY. There's a massive swamp known as the Everglades. I get nobody expects gators at Disney and clearly they are not typically an issue but shit, it's a bit of a stretch to assume people should be shocked that alligators exist in Florida.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is a 2-yr-old up at 9:30?

that's your response to this tragedy? are you the spawn of trump?

I guess, and no. Gators will eat what they eat. Keep kids away and they won't get eaten.

Why would anyone expect gators to be at disney? How would you know to take precautions at an amusement park or resort?

They spray for mosquitoes but don't remove gators? WTF?

Have you never been to Florida? Gators are as common there as deer are here. They can be found at every resort and golf course.

You realize Disney is a tourist resort and the majority of people there haven't been to Florida and would not know this, right?

As I just wrote above, most people must obey the signs to not swim as this hasn't occurred before in the forty some years the resort has existed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My older brother lives in a planned community in Florida with on of those manmade water overflow drainage areas. They've had gators on their back porch. For the last 20 years.
No one who's been in Florida hasn't seen a gator.
You know, the mascot name of the state flagship university.

+1 gators are very common in Florida.

Signed,

UF alum

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The skeptic (and prosecutor) in me wonders if anyone actually saw the child on the beach other than the parents. The whole story is strange. Why is the four year old in the play pen while the baby is allowed to wander alone in the water in the darK?

Otherwisee, it is just a horrible tragedy. Disney has been at that location for more than 40 years. If they were truly negligent, this would not be the first incident of this kind.

Weird -- the 4 yr old in the playpen caught my eye too. Others metioned movies and parades -- yet I haven't read witness accounts of seeing this family.

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Anonymous wrote:The skeptic (and prosecutor) in me wonders if anyone actually saw the child on the beach other than the parents. The whole story is strange. Why is the four year old in the play pen while the baby is allowed to wander alone in the water in the darK?

Otherwisee, it is just a horrible tragedy. Disney has been at that location for more than 40 years. If they were truly negligent, this would not be the first incident of this kind.

Weird -- the 4 yr old in the playpen caught my eye too. Others metioned movies and parades -- yet I haven't read witness accounts of seeing this family.

Can you account for every single family you see at a theme park the day you go?

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I wonder if the parents thought no swimming meant no swimming, but wading is okay.

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Anonymous wrote:I bet disney takes precautions to keep animal kingdom and the safari lodge free of gators to protect the animals. Too bad they don't protect the baby humans.

Please don't go outside tonight. There are mosquitos.
Please don't go to the beach this summer. There are sharks.
Please don't go to Australia. I can't even tell you the dangers there.

You're so dumb, pp.

Every other place I've been to in Florida has warning signs about gators.

Disney does not. It's reasonable for people to believe that the great disney has taken precautions...now we know that's not true.

They spray horrific chemicals all over the property at night to kill mosquitoes, and I get they have special precautions in place to ensure there are no gators in Animal Kingdom or the lodge. Why not take stronger measures elsewhere on the property or at the very least post signs?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The skeptic (and prosecutor) in me wonders if anyone actually saw the child on the beach other than the parents. The whole story is strange. Why is the four year old in the play pen while the baby is allowed to wander alone in the water in the darK?

Otherwisee, it is just a horrible tragedy. Disney has been at that location for more than 40 years. If they were truly negligent, this would not be the first incident of this kind.

And, here we go. The alligator truthers have arrived.