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[quote=Anonymous]The judgement on this thread is unreal.  I haven't read all 90 plus pages but I can only assume it's because it's much easier to blame negligent parents than acknowledge this could happen to anyone.  A couple of things:

1) The sign says no swimming, not no wading.  I've been to that beach before and seen plenty of people walking around the water's edge.  Frankly I always thought it was no swimming because of the boat traffic and of the lack of life guards.  Not knowing about gators, it would never occur to me that wading would be a problem.  Which brings me to my second point,

2) The people coming to DC from all over the country and all over the world would have NO reason to know there were gators in that water.  None.  Disney feels super safe and controlled and frankly FAKE.  Why would there be gators?  I could imagine a kid seeing one and assuming it's one of the audio animatronic animals all over the parks.

3) I am a big Disney fan and this incident won't stop me from going to Disneyworld, but really Disney??  In Yellowstone, where bears and bison are a risk and people and sharing their natural environment, there are signs EVERYWHERE about animal safety.  Especially when you are dealing with small kids, and given the dangers of which they were clearly aware, Disney should have been much more explicit with their signs.  And Disney knows that already.  There will not be a big public suit bc there is no way they are going to fight this in a court of law.  They will settle and rightly so.  Even if you think the parents were contributorily negligent, so was Disney.

4) Speaking of the parents being negligent, the boy was not unsupervised.  He was wading on the shore and his parents were obviously close enough to chase the gator into the water and wrestle with it.  And having now watched a couple of YouTube videos, those things move fast.  Obviously none of us can know from these mixed reports how deep he was in, etc.  But on Disney beach, where you are ALLOWED to be, with other people around, and no clear warnings about the dangers in the water, I can see how reasonable parents would think letting their kid stand ankle deep would not be dangerous.  Standing ankle deep in water is NOT SWIMMING.  They were from Nebraska not Florida.  They had NO REASON to know about gators and the dangers they present.

5) Seriously with the judgement.  Have you never let your kid walk ahead of you on the street?  Cross the street alone?  As parents we make decisions every day about which battles to choose.  I can easily see how nothing about this would have seemed unsafe on a well lit Disney beach, right after movie night, with others around and a MANMADE lagoon which is unlikely to have steep drops, cliffs, or frankly wildlife.  People who think otherwise have clearly never been to Disney.  Having been to this actual beach, I can totally see how this would not seem unsafe to these poor parents.[/quote]

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