Anonymous wrote:Question for the people who say the parents are not at fault... If a babysitter or nanny had let the little boy wade in the water and he was attacked, who would everyone be blaming? Wouldn't the babysitter take the heat for this?

An accident out of everyone's control would be a plane crashing into the hotel or hotel room. If you allow your child to do something and they become injured because you allowed it, is it not your fault? As terrible as it is, children rely on adults for direction in good and bad situations. If he had run off like gorilla kid... That would be out of the parents control but there's a difference between him running off and being allowed to go in because they were in the water.

Do we know if he ran off or was given permission to enter the water?

If the sitter/nanny was present, everyone would say that BOTH the parents are at fault, and ALSO the sitter/nanny. No one is absolved here.

The important issue is sympathy, people.

Anonymous wrote:https://www.buzzfeed.com/morganshanahan/parents-call-upon-the-village-to-support-lane-graves-parents

People are starting to post pics of their children in the same place. It could have been anyone's child that was there. People who haven't been to that hotel don't seem to understand.

Thanks for sharing. I live close to this resort and guests are on the beach and in the water daily. Disney has never told anyone to move. It's so horrific.

A boy was attacked by a gator at the disney wilderness resort while standing on shore feeding ducks near a pond in 1986. Was hospitalized for a week, and there are pics online of Snow White visiting him.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/morganshanahan/parents-call-upon-the-village-to-support-lane-graves-parents

People are starting to post pics of their children in the same place. It could have been anyone's child that was there. People who haven't been to that hotel don't seem to understand.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So on some other forums there is a theory brewing.

The Dad drowned the kid and has scratches from the boy fighting him off. The dad then yells gator to cover his tracks. The boy sinks to the bottom and is later found intact and with very few puncture wounds. None of the alligators are found to be responsible. Boys injuries are not consistent with alligator attack. Family gets huge payout from Disney and is not suspected.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist but so much conflicting information has been reported that it makes you wonder.

The boy had traumatic injuries, according to the autopsy.

That's the opposite of what I've read.

Go back to your hole in the ground and your unquestioning faith in Donald Trump.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So on some other forums there is a theory brewing.

The Dad drowned the kid and has scratches from the boy fighting him off. The dad then yells gator to cover his tracks. The boy sinks to the bottom and is later found intact and with very few puncture wounds. None of the alligators are found to be responsible. Boys injuries are not consistent with alligator attack. Family gets huge payout from Disney and is not suspected.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist but so much conflicting information has been reported that it makes you wonder.

The boy had traumatic injuries, according to the autopsy.

That's the opposite of what I've read.

Can you read?

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Anonymous wrote:So on some other forums there is a theory brewing.

The Dad drowned the kid and has scratches from the boy fighting him off. The dad then yells gator to cover his tracks. The boy sinks to the bottom and is later found intact and with very few puncture wounds. None of the alligators are found to be responsible. Boys injuries are not consistent with alligator attack. Family gets huge payout from Disney and is not suspected.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist but so much conflicting information has been reported that it makes you wonder.

The boy had traumatic injuries, according to the autopsy.

That's the opposite of what I've read.

Anonymous wrote:So on some other forums there is a theory brewing.

The Dad drowned the kid and has scratches from the boy fighting him off. The dad then yells gator to cover his tracks. The boy sinks to the bottom and is later found intact and with very few puncture wounds. None of the alligators are found to be responsible. Boys injuries are not consistent with alligator attack. Family gets huge payout from Disney and is not suspected.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist but so much conflicting information has been reported that it makes you wonder.

It's true, idiots will believe anything! Just start with "I don't believe factual accounts of anything, ever" and work backwards from there until you come up with some fantastical version of what you think happened.

Anonymous wrote:So on some other forums there is a theory brewing.

The Dad drowned the kid and has scratches from the boy fighting him off. The dad then yells gator to cover his tracks. The boy sinks to the bottom and is later found intact and with very few puncture wounds. None of the alligators are found to be responsible. Boys injuries are not consistent with alligator attack. Family gets huge payout from Disney and is not suspected.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist but so much conflicting information has been reported that it makes you wonder.

A theory in your demented head?

Anonymous wrote:So on some other forums there is a theory brewing.

The Dad drowned the kid and has scratches from the boy fighting him off. The dad then yells gator to cover his tracks. The boy sinks to the bottom and is later found intact and with very few puncture wounds. None of the alligators are found to be responsible. Boys injuries are not consistent with alligator attack. Family gets huge payout from Disney and is not suspected.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist but so much conflicting information has been reported that it makes you wonder.

The boy had traumatic injuries, according to the autopsy.

Anonymous wrote:So on some other forums there is a theory brewing.

The Dad drowned the kid and has scratches from the boy fighting him off. The dad then yells gator to cover his tracks. The boy sinks to the bottom and is later found intact and with very few puncture wounds. None of the alligators are found to be responsible. Boys injuries are not consistent with alligator attack. Family gets huge payout from Disney and is not suspected.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist but so much conflicting information has been reported that it makes you wonder.

Shut up

This tragedy, for some reason, made me think of that poor family from Delaware who were poisoned by Terminix pestcides while vacationing in the US Virgin Islands last year. The family still have traumatic health issues, particularly the 2 boys, whose nervous systems were more violently attacked by the pesticdes. I Googled the family, and they received a $10 million from Terminix this past March. That seems like such a small settlement to me, given the longterm healthcare needs of the family.

Years ago (but in what I'm sure seems like only days to the family), a wonderful young teacher from DC (I believe the Lab School) and her unborn baby drowned at the OBX in the riptide. Her husband nearly drowned as well.

On the one hand, there is no comparison between these two stories.

On the other hand, those who are calling out Lane's family must also have called out the young first-time mom and her husband for causing two deaths.

I am raising the issue hoping that these ridiculous, terrible, idiots who keep blaming parents or calling them hicks etc., etc. (many of whom seem awfully DC-anctimonious frankly) will have a little bit of a wake up call. I guess I have some foolish hope that people who could be so cruel as we've seen in this post might somehow see the idiocy of their ways.

And then I think about some of the other threads and of the ways people delight and cower in the veil of anonymity on the web ..... And I try once again to ignore those posters.... But it's hard, since it's hard to believe such cruelty can rear its head in the face of tragedy, time and again.

May the Graves find whatever comfort they can in the years ahead.

So on some other forums there is a theory brewing.

The Dad drowned the kid and has scratches from the boy fighting him off. The dad then yells gator to cover his tracks. The boy sinks to the bottom and is later found intact and with very few puncture wounds. None of the alligators are found to be responsible. Boys injuries are not consistent with alligator attack. Family gets huge payout from Disney and is not suspected.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist but so much conflicting information has been reported that it makes you wonder.

I agree with one point. If you have a lagoon full of alligators why would you make a beach on its shore, with sand, beach lounge chairs and umbrellas and everything? It's inviting people to the edge of water.