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In other suits, Florida laws have been interpreted that [b]property owners are not responsible for wild animal attacks[/b] unless they kept them as pets.

Also, from an earlier article posted, when it comes to alligator attacks, courts in Florida have held that a swimmer's disregard of "No Swimming" and other warning signs were the sole cause of the serious injuries.

So, actually , it looks like little legal liability for Disney. [/quote]

Multiple Disney guests have come out publicly that multiple Disney cast members have referred to these alligators as Disney or resort "pets."[/quote]

They're as[b] much pets of Disney as the squirrels are in my yard[/b].  I don't feed them, give them veterinary care, name them, care for or about them.  If I could figure out how to get rid of them so they stop eating the fruits off our fruit trees, I would.  Disney isn't taking care of these gators as pets, either, and if they could figure out how to get rid of them, they would.  [/quote]

Yes, we have alligators everywhere in Florida.  Every fresh body of water is potentially home to our state reptile...and it is not reasonable to think they should all be removed from whatever body of water - manmade or otherwise - to make room for humans.  We moved into their habitat and they have learned to coexist.  I do not hold Disney responsible for a 1 in 2.4 million accident, which is what this was.  People are attacked by bears and cougars out west when they're out walking their dogs.  I don't see much of a difference.  
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The vast wilderness of the Grand Floridian. Keep your guard up, tourists.

PP, you're nuts.[/quote]

The Grand Floridan is in the middle of a swamp, as is all of disney world.  [/quote]

People who aren't from Florida aren't necessarily aware of this, given that we dont live in swamps and given that Disney is such an artificial and controlled environment. So a warning/reminder/whatever you want to call it is helpful.[/quote]

I like you, whoever you are. [/quote]

You know, I really don't get this.  All the guidebooks talk about how swimming isn't allowed in the lagoon.  There are signs not to swim.  The water is brackish and unattractive Yet  people still go in the water.

I guarantee if the alligator signs where there, people would still swim as long as they couldn't "see" alligators.  How do I know this?  I have seen people swimming other places iwhere such signs exist.  People regularly boat in lakes with alligators.  And you know, ninety nine point nine percent of the time, they are fine.  This was a black swan type event.

Moreover, people are strangely fixated on this.  Another child of the same age roughly drowned in a Disney pool last year.

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But the little guy who drowned last year?

Mom and dad did not physically fight the plastic character statues in the swimming pool for their child, then watch their child get pulled underwater, then spend the next 17 hours believing that tuey might not get to lay their child to rest, or if they did he would be half or entirely eaten.

Tyat is the difference between the emotional response to this child's death and other drowning deatys of children, including the one last year at Disney.

The gator and fight for the child brings an added element of horror that a typical accidental death does not have.[/quote]

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