[Solson]

Disney needs to stop making ponds that children can wade into if they don’t want anyone to wade into them. You can’t tell me large rocks around their ponds or other natural barriers couldn’t be put in, thus making it much less inviting to little kids who can’t read warning signs.

[RegulatorCountry]

Disney wouldn’t be Disney without water attractions. Aggressive removal of all alligators, and equally aggressive measures to keep them out, is the correct response.

[wrench]

Look at the pics of the area where the kid was attacked. It is a sculpted, white sandy beach. It looks like a swimming beach, not an alagator lagoon.

Disney inc. is up to their eyeballs in liability, signs or not.

[grania]

It looks like there was a sandy beach where the toddler was wading. People let there guard down at DisneyWorld, because so much of the wonder is falling in line with their fake reality.

It doesn't sound like the parents were negligent. Heck, they tried to pull the toddler away from the alligator.

This does seem to be a case of "given enough time and opportunity, anything that can happen will happen"

This is nothing like the gorilla case where there was a fence so the parent should've understood their obligation to hold the child's hand so he wouldn't try to breech it.

JMHO

[Tenacious 1]

Disney needs to stop making ponds that children can wade into if they don’t want anyone to wade into them. You can’t tell me large rocks around their ponds or other natural barriers couldn’t be put in, thus making it much less inviting to little kids who can’t read warning signs.

I was just there. At Frontier and at a couple resorts (including the one this happened at), they have beaches. Check it out on Google Earth.

[Ingtar]

The whole place is built on a swamp. The water has to be allowed to collect somewhere.