Anonymous wrote:OMG. How is it possible that they have gators on their property?!?! You'd think it was a man-made lagoon free of gators.

I've seen them there before - at the park 'man-made lagoon' one time when that riverboat wasn't up and running long term.

Anonymous wrote:It's not just this lagoon. People on disboards have spotted them at Magic Kingdom, at nearly every body of water on every property, golf course, wilderness trails, waiting for the ferry, etc.

How is this possible? Empty the bodies of water, kill the gators, and secure the perimeter.

+1,000. Disney a corporation that only cares about revenue and investors. Such B.S. This poor family.

This is so horrible - that poor family. Someone there on Twitter said the father was wrestling with the alligator. I feel so sick.

It's not just this lagoon. People on disboards have spotted them at Magic Kingdom, at nearly every body of water on every property, golf course, wilderness trails, waiting for the ferry, etc.

How is this possible? Empty the bodies of water, kill the gators, and secure the perimeter.

Liability out the wazoo. Resort hosted movie night on alligator-infested beach and kid died? I can't even begin to imagine how much they will pay.

Ugh. Reports of alligators in this lake as far back as 2009. This is from Disboard, a Disney listserv:

While at the River Roost Bar at Port Orleans Riverside last night, I met a man who was staying at the Poly for a convention.....

He mentioned he saw an alligator in the water while walking between the Poly and the Grand. He said he heard hissing first, then he saw it. He even caught some of it on video on his phone. I kid no one, on the video was the gator peeking up through the water, then coming on shore approaching the man. I told him the hissing was a warning and that the gator probably scurried up because he got too close to get it on the camera.

More posts on disboards that gator sightings at disney are common. Frightening.

Anonymous wrote:An LA station is reporting that the resort was having a movie night on the beach. Alligator was in shallow water and quickly snatched the toddler. Awful.

This is horrifying.

Disney needs to empty all man made lagoons on it's property and kill the gators. Period.

That poor family...and every family that witnessed it!

Imagine the lawsuits. All the families who witnessed it will sue.

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Anonymous wrote:Is there any chance this child could have survived? I'm praying I wake up in the morning to good news. That the gator only bit an ankle and the child doggy paddled to a sandbar somewhere and waited for help.

I don't realistically see this happening, but I can't help but hope maybe this won't be a sad ending.

No matter what though, they need to hunt down this man eater and kill it.

They haven't found the kid. Why kill a wild animal for doing what it is supposed to for survival? If the parents of the kid had been holding onto their kid, it might not have happened.

I can't stand when animals are blamed/ killed for human error.

Seriously?? Alligators aren't supposed to attack humans. It's not a part of the natural food chain. Normally they are quite docile and avoid people, but this one has proven to be aggressive and now has a taste for human blood.

Okay.

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Anonymous wrote:It is probably the Nile Crocodiles breeding in the wild in Florida. Some exotic pets trader released these baby crocs in Florida and now they are taking over. These are man eaters. Aggressive and powerful.

Is this a real thing? It sounds like a bad horror movie.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/21/us/nile-crocodiles-florida-irpt/

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/24/science/crocodiles-in-florida.html?_r=0

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/05/20/nile-crocodiles-aggressive-invasive-species-found-florida/84643472/

An LA station is reporting that the resort was having a movie night on the beach. Alligator was in shallow water and quickly snatched the toddler. Awful.

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Anonymous wrote:Is there any chance this child could have survived? I'm praying I wake up in the morning to good news. That the gator only bit an ankle and the child doggy paddled to a sandbar somewhere and waited for help.

I don't realistically see this happening, but I can't help but hope maybe this won't be a sad ending.

No matter what though, they need to hunt down this man eater and kill it.

They haven't found the kid. Why kill a wild animal for doing what it is supposed to for survival? If the parents of the kid had been holding onto their kid, it might not have happened.

I can't stand when animals are blamed/ killed for human error.

Seriously?? Alligators aren't supposed to attack humans. It's not a part of the natural food chain. Normally they are quite docile and avoid people, but this one has proven to be aggressive and now has a taste for human blood.

Anonymous wrote:Is there any chance this child could have survived? I'm praying I wake up in the morning to good news. That the gator only bit an ankle and the child doggy paddled to a sandbar somewhere and waited for help.

I don't realistically see this happening, but I can't help but hope maybe this won't be a sad ending.

No matter what though, they need to hunt down this man eater and kill it.

They haven't found the kid. Why kill a wild animal for doing what it is supposed to for survival? If the parents of the kid had been holding onto their kid, it might not have happened.

I can't stand when animals are blamed/ killed for human error.

Is there any chance this child could have survived? I'm praying I wake up in the morning to good news. That the gator only bit an ankle and the child doggy paddled to a sandbar somewhere and waited for help.

I don't realistically see this happening, but I can't help but hope maybe this won't be a sad ending.

No matter what though, they need to hunt down this man eater and kill it.