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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who goes to Florida and doesn't know there are alligators everywhere?  There's ar eason the Gators are our State U. mascot.  Pretty cool one too.

We've built our homes, resorts, etc. in their habitat and they've adapted to co-existence.  Alligator attacks on humans are very very rare. Sorry that this happened, but people can be so ignorant?

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If you went on a float trip on the idyllic Bourbon river in Missouri would you know not to get out of the raft, inner tube or canoe in slow moving, gentle sections to swim because those parts are likely to have dangerous strong undertows? Probably not. But every native of rural mid Missouri knows this to be a dangerous risk from the time they are young and go floating, tubing or fishing.

It looks like a great place to swim and an urbanite with no experience with the rivers would not know this.

Do you know not to let your kids run off steam at a lush, mowed grassy field in Alabama?  Most people from out of state might do that if they are driving thru and need to stop at a rest stop. Someone from Maine is not going to know to have their kids let off steam in the sidewalks instead of grass due to aggressive fireants hidden in the sod.

The list goes on.

So a family from Nebraska, where wading in a lake like that, yes even with the algae, is commonplace and not considered to be swimming, could very reasonably have no idea that alligators would likely be at the shore ready to drag their baby under the water.[/quote]

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