Child Found Dead - Disney Alligator Attack

[Tayasaurus]

also, a sign is not warning enough at a hotel designed for children. many of them can't or wont read. they might not even NOTICE the sign.

Signs do little to stop people from doing things you don't want them to. Like my store signs for example. Which lists the rules and regulations for trading books in my bookstore. Nobody reads them and everyone gets mad at me when i tell them "they can't do that."

forget people who don't read when they possess the ability to.

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[Satan From Wreck-It-Ralph]

alligators really aren't dangerous. gator attacks are extremely rare and most locals in louisiana let their kids swim in the river with them.

#notallgators

[Lord Tony®]

Working at walmart I found out people can't read signs.

[McZealot]

For both the Alligator and Gorilla incident, is a lack of parenting. Your responsible for your child and the area he/she is in. This is the equivalent of a mother watching a movie and letting her kid loose in the house but the kid manages to kill himself because he fell off the kitchen chair or some freak accident. Honestly the likelihood of another kid getting killed by an alligator in Disney is far less then getting killed while being left in a car that's off.

dude wtf are you talking about. there are like 3 alligator attacks every year in the US, and this family is from NEBRASKA, they've probly never seen an alligator. There is NO warning that alligators are in the area. You are at a Disney Themepark by the water, and you let your kid step inside the water. He wasn't swimming, he was just standing in the swallow water. As soon as that Alligator attacked him, the parents jumped in and attacked the alligator, trying to separate it from the kid. seem like pretty good parents to me.

i dont think many stuffty parents bring their kids to The Grand Floridian, which is $750 - $850 a night.

[Lord Tony®]

swallow water

Swallow water, huh?

Must be named after alligators swallow ye whole.

[McZealot]

noedit: just checked. not an average of 3 attacks per year. more like 3 per DECADE. it's more likely for the kid to get hit by lightning. and you would still be here looking for a scapegoat. "It's the parents fault for letting him go outside when it was cloudy!"

i find it hilarious that the same starfishs who blame the parents for every childlike thing a child does are the first people to complain that kids these days are overprotected. "A girl can't even walk to school herself anymore?! This nation is insane!"

[Shocklink]

dude wtf are you talking about. there are like 3 alligator attacks every year in the US, and this family is from NEBRASKA, they've probly never seen an alligator. There is NO warning that alligators are in the area. You are at a Disney Themepark by the water, and you let your kid step inside the water. He wasn't swimming, he was just standing in the swallow water. As soon as that Alligator attacked him, the parents jumped in and attacked the alligator, trying to separate it from the kid. seem like pretty good parents to me.

i dont think many stuffty parents bring their kids to The Grand Floridian, which is $750 - $850 a night.

I mean yes, what the dad did was heroic as hell and I congratulate him and wish he succeeded and don't get me wrong, im not saying that the parents are at 100% fault and are horrible, im saying that there was a warning sign and im pretty sure there's a warning about gators at the resort (I stayed in one but this was years ago).

I still stand regarding lack of parenting, who the hell lets a 2 year old in shallow waters at night? Would you swim in the ocean at night?

EDIT
Like really, be honest with yourself, who the forget doesn't know that Florida is where Alligators live? Like Disney is smack in the middle of the god dam everglades and not only that if you either come in plane theres art all over with gators and if you come by car, every (Most) bridges has an alligator art on the sign like... How can you not connect the dots lol

[McZealot]

I still stand regarding lack of parenting, who the hell lets a 2 year old in shallow waters at night? Would you swim in the ocean at night?

HE WASN'T SWIMMING. HE WAS STANDING BY THE WATER AT A DISNEY HOTEL. yes, i would stand by the water at a disney hotel at night. (during what i believe was a public movie by the water night)

[Shocklink]

HE WASN'T SWIMMING. HE WAS STANDING BY THE WATER AT A DISNEY HOTEL. yes, i would stand by the water at a disney hotel at night. (during what i believe was a public movie by the water night)

I never said he was swimming, I just said he was in shallow waters, Thats what the article reads
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/16/us/alligator-child-florida-orlando-disney.html?_r=0

[Khaz]

Disney World is no where near the everglades just an fyi

[Shocklink]

Disney World is no where near the everglades just an fyi

Your absolutely right, I over generalized it.

What I ment to say is that Disney is part of the ecosystem that feeds into the Everglades

[ZSNO]

i dont think many stuffty parents bring their kids to The Grand Floridian, which is $750 - $850 a night.

Rich parents are so stuffty they hire someone else to raise their children, you're backwards.

I never said he was swimming, I just said he was in shallow waters, Thats what the article reads

Plus standing in shallow water is practically swimming for a 2 year-old.