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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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.[/quote]
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. [/quote]

None of this makes me bat an eye.

Two year old is wild and stired up from all the excitement. Parents let him run around to burn off energy until the parade with dad strolling a few feet away in eyeshot and voice control but not arms length.

Four year old is tired and worn out and having a meltdown, so mom says "Fine. Get in the pac n play and lay down while your brother runs off some steam. We lugged it out here so someone might as well use it."

Dad is tired, feeling laid back because after all, they are on vacation and it's Disney. The toddler sees the gator and runs directly towards it because after all it looks just like the Captain Hook crocodile he has seen all over the park and Jake and the Neverland Pirate.  Dad tries but he does not react quickly enough to get to his son before the aligator gets him and by the time he gets there it is too late

None of this, the toddler near the waters edge or the four year old in the playpen sounds surprising.

[b]And why did Disney have a lifeguard stationed at an alligator infested beach if they weren't allowing swimming?[/b]

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I was just at this resort last month. There are lifeguards at the pool, which is maybe 75 feet from the lake. There are No Swimming signs everywhere in the lake itself. There's a lot of activity out by the lake, including movies.

I don't think Disney is negligent -- or the parents. It's just a terrible tragedy. There are gators everywhere in Florida today (when I grew up there, they were almost extinct). I imagine they will alter their signage. Still, it is like sharks in the ocean. We all know they are there. But you don't think about one nabbing you in shallow water. [/quote]

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