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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a man made  Pond within a few feet of fire pits, lawn chairs, pools, slides.  The family in no way suspected there were alligators in the pond. 
[b]The child may have been attacked if he was just on the sand.[/b] The alligator was very aggressive and looking for dinner. 
There is no to blame the family for this tragic accident. They are going through the unthinkable. I'm sure they have a lifetime of regret ahead.[/quote]

I think so too, he could have been two inches out of the water instead of two inches in the water and this same thing probably would have happened. Then the "omg he was SWIMMING!" semantics would be moot, but alas, he dared to touch his feet to the water. I really don't think a court would be terribly impressed at efforts to blur the distinction between swimming and having your feet a couple inches in the water. [/quote]

The reality is that it probably wouldn't have. The reason is because of the way alligators hunt and catch prey. The sense the movement in the water and head toward that. Smaller water disturbance is more manageable prey. So, if the kid had been on the beach and not moving in the water, that gator would have passed right by. They don't hunt on land and are rarely aggressive on land (unless harassed or protecting its nest).[/quote]

Meh, your fellow gator armchair experts earlier in the thread have said otherwise. This question is probably some gray area too, but it's probably not out of the question at all that a gator this aggressive would have swiped a kid whose feet were just barely out of the water, not touching it. All things that would need to be hashed out by actual experts, though, if it ever comes to that. [/quote]

No nobody said otherwise. We all said the very same thing: they're not coming up on that beach to hunt. But a small 2 year old splashing at the shoreline looks like prey and that is the area gators do hunt. At dusk. We have ALL said you can walk past them on land and they don't care. Won't even budge. In shallow freshwater at dusk? Yes, you have a problem. You're in gator feeding ground. [/quote]

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