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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]While it was "only" one kid to Disney and to the rest of the public -- for this mother and father it was one of their "only" two kids. THAT is what requires a 7 figure payout. The fact that their lives are forever changed and all the milestones they wanted/planned with him will never happen.[/quote]

and someone else is always to blame, right?[/quote]

Not always, but in this case -- yeah -- Disney shares SOME blame. The parents have blame too. What happened wasn't a total freak act of nature that EVERYONE knows about - like if this kid had been running around in lightening. They have lightening in every state in the U.S. and if you choose to run around in it, it's your own issue. Here -- there was a danger that was very specific to Florida that people from other states simply don't know about; Disney knew about the danger as it had been dealing with the alligator population since Disney was founded. Yet it chose to put up no fencing. It chose to put up one small "no swimming" sign. It chose NOT TO mention alligators on any of its signs. Sure the parents shouldn't have allowed their kid to touch the water, but how were they to know that a fake lake at Disney has alligators. They likely had no way of knowing that the fake lake meets up with a real body of water someplace and alligators swim in from there. For all they knew it was constructed as a giant "pool" which doesn't touch any natural bodies of water -- and not being Floridians they can't be expected to know that alligators can get into that too.[/quote]

And the family is from Nebraska so they probably had no clue how ubiquitous alligators are to FL.[/quote]

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