Posted on 06/14/2016 8:59:48 PM PDT by gop4lyf
BAY LAKE, Florida - Deputies are searching for a two-year-old child that reportedly was dragged into water around the area of Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa, according to WFTV and The Orlando Sentinel . According to Orange County deputies, authorities were told the child was dragged into the Seven Seas Lagoon.
A helicopter was sent above the area to search for the child above as authorities search by ground.
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OMG! And people don’t want to visit New York!
I’ll visit NM in winter, thank you, when all the rattlers are presumably asleep.
What folks from most states that donot have a large gator population is that if you spill a glass of water here in Florida or Lousiana, chances are a gator will be in that watersplashing around looking for a meal or to mate.
Be very very careful.
Tell them to be careful walking around the edges of Disney’s lakes - which I assume are manmade (might be wrong!) I’ve seen them and they are scary!
When my kids were 2 they were in bed by 8:00.
The father did. They were at the water's edge together when the gator leapt out and snatched the child. The father immediately jumped in to save it and briefly wrestled with it but the gator was able to get away.......
They even have a Gay Day now :)
that worked out well.
They found a seven foot gator in a drainage ditch 30 miles south of Memphis in North Mississippi just two weeks ago
In New York City, the gators are in the sewers. ;-)
At least that's what they told me when I was a kid growing up in Brooklyn.
[Jail the parents.]
Those gators can travel at 40 miles an hour. There wouldn’t be much they could do if it was on the move. It may have suddenly come out of the water;
People claiming to be so damned righteous in their abilities while judging other are usually nowhere near as good as they think they are.
Having said that... you try noticing a stealthy predator that has for eons hunted in this exact fashion, in its’ natural habitat and knows how to camouflage itself extremely well, at 9:30 p.m. when the light is low or non-existent.
You do that, and avoid the alligator that can strike at a moment’s notice and be back in the water in a blink of an eye, all while being a two year old.
Yeah, you’re brilliant I tell ya.
I like seeing gators in the wild. But they must be hunted and regulated. 40 years ago they were protected. They were endangered. Leave it to the government to let them get to the point that they’re an overcrowded nuisance.
She moved to Upstate NY a year ago and passed on that when they went to a park that also offered swimming, the folks around looked a little stupefied when the 8 year old girl asked if they needed to look out for alligators.
Prayers up for the parents who have to be absolutely horrified and upset with themselves for being "inured" to the fact of life down here in gator-country.
Some posters are so effing perfect apparently....
Every freeper must be beautiful as Achilles or Artemis and smart as Oppenheimer and witty as Mark Steyn and Have the situational awareness of a Commanche.. And they all fart peonies to top off their immaculate perfection......cause they never fcuk up
How about a little simple empathy....bad things happen despite efforts and this is quite a bad one as any parent can attest just fearing it
Hell....it’s about as bad as it gets....
What it boils down to is proper management of risks. I raised a daughter. I know how a 2-year old can get away. That being said, sitting by the water's edge, in gator-infested Florida, is HIGH risk. Having a 2-year old with you, knowing their ability to get away quickly, is HIGH risk. Going to an event late at night, in such an environment, in the dark, is HIGH risk.
Knowing all those HIGH risks, would I have brought my 2-year old daughter to that event? Hell no!
There are gators in every open body of water in Florida. That is how we raised our kids. These folks were from Nebraska and didn’t have the level of awareness to the danger that most Floridians have been raised with. The gators are highly mobile and swift as well, capable of seeking out new territories. It could be there one day and gone the next.
This is a horrible tragedy.
You don’t see them. They sneak up under water or with just their eyes above the surface. You simply do not play in quiet waters in Florida.
However, if you see water anywhere in Florida, even flood control retention ponds, you always treat it as though gators are in it. And you never just go wading in the water. The splashing attracts them like a dinner bell. Especially at night when they are most active.
Biggest mistake people make is feeding the damn things. That makes them equate humans with food. "Oh. You have no food for me? OK. I'll just take you or the next person I see when I am hungry."
So was I!
Good post. I think a lot of kevetching in this thread is whistling past the graveyard.
People like to think of reasons why “This could never happen to me!” It makes them feel better.
To think “There but for the Grace of God. go I.” is profoundly unsettling to people who have not considered it.
It is compounded in this sort of case of intense tragedy and horror.
This is the natural world that people lived in for most of existence, where this sort of horror was a risk each and every day. Maybe some Gaia worshipers will be snapped out of their silly romanticism, but I doubt it.
It is profoundly ironic that this happened at a Disney theme park, which has done so much to romanticise nature.
I heard on the radio that the family was from Kansas and were wading along the edge of the lake. Definitely not a wise thing to do in Florida at night when the gators feed.
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