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[b]Do you go out in the woods and not think about bears or mountain lions?[/b] I just don't understand this.

This was a freak accident. I know its hard to accept but no one is 100% safe 100% of the time. Sometimes when you're outside a wild animal shows up. Sometimes when you're inside a dresser falls on top of you. It's just life. It's sad and horrible but it's just life.[/quote]

NP here.  I have spent much of my life hiking and backpacking in the wilderness in areas where both bears and mountain lions are quite active.  There are many, many, many people who don't think about these things when they enter the wilderness...and even those who do don't always know what the proper precautions are to take.  I've had to tell people about simple precautions all the time.

In the same way that our National Parks tell visitors about wild animal safety, I think that if Disney is going to encourage people to hang out very close to an open body of water they should warn visitors about common sense precautions.  I've been to FL many, many times, and I didn't realize just standing within a couple feet of a body of water could be an alligator risk (I know about swimming).  I haven't been to the Seven Seas Lagoon, so I don't know whether it's obvious that it's connected to a larger body of water or if it seems like it could be an enclosed pool.  But I still think Disney could have warned people.

Beyond that, freak accidents happen all the time, and I suspect that's what this was.  Disney is pretty good at PR (understatement of the world), so they will quietly offer the family a large settlement...they will likely also find some Disney-esque way of warning visitors about alligator dangers in the future.[/quote]

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