"Mind if I play through? Didn't think so."
The same person complaining about Florida's "gator problem" would be outraged if they went on a spree to decimate the population....
"Mind if I play through? Didn't think so."
Gators are indigenous to FL. Just like rattlesnake, bear, panthers, brown recluse, etc.. These populations need to be harvested and/or controlled.
Prayers for the boy and his family.
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Bambi/Gator/? cults love their critters more than humans.
If you ask the average Florida gator he will tell you democrats are tastier and easier to chomp onto and drag into lakes and canals.
Florida has a gator problem. And a Burmese python problem. And a Nile monitor problem.
Gators got to eat, too.
Seriously, it’s time to stop protectung gators. There should be gator free zones...populated places, retirement communities, theme parks, etc. if my neighbor attacks me and I defend myself, that’s self defense. A gator comes after me while I’m fishing and I shoot it, I go to jail. “Up north” people wouldn’t understand..but I’m looking at a 10 foot gator about 10 feet up on my yard as I write this....about 30 feet from my back door. It just doesn’t belong there. These things “stroll” at night... With that kind of an animal, (times 1000), loose in a senior development, you don’t dare go in your yard at night. We can legally shoot pigs anytime...but we must “save” the damned gators. Time to rethink.
I know an older Gent that owns some land up near 3 Rivers TX which is (despite the name) a pretty dry place. He had a Tank (which is what the locals call a Pond). Youngster informed him he had a Gator in his Tank.
Old Gent and his Wife went out to investigate, he left the spouse in the car with the AC running and walked over the berm to have a looksee ... 20 minutes passed, the Wife went to go see what was raking so long.
She found her Husband slowly crawling back to the car, he had his leg sliced by a Boar Hog that he surprised. He said he never saw a Gator.
He let me hunt all the Hogs I wanted that Summer.
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Look...I have lived in Florida for over twenty years, and am well aware to be mindful of alligators on the roam in their natural habitat!!! The problem with this terrible, devastating, heartbreaking incident that is not the alligators in Florida’s fault, but the Disney failure to notify guests properly, of the impending danger to human life.. First, Disney, with all their money, technical, environmental and brains expertise.......should have had a rigid policy to inform guests checking in two ways that dangerous alligators inhabited their man made lakes as nature demands, first, when they check-in and second with literature placed in their room, and a pictorial placard poster clearly on the back of the hotel room door. Lastly all the man made lakes should have been clearly marked...all over with signage stating “Danger, Deadly alligators at large...Take caution with yourselves and your small children”.
And...finally although these devastated, grieving, parents are really not at fault.....letting a two year old running free in the lake after darkness feel was surely not a prudent safety action!!! Disney will pay through the nose on this one. IMHO...the Chairman & CEO should be relieved of his or her duty...immdiately, becasue this horrible incident would have never happened if someone in the Disney organization was using cautious, common sense procedure and action!!! The top person should go....that is how serious this oversight was!!!
Lake Alice on the campus of UF does not have a swimming area anywhere. We used to go every Sunday to a spot on the lake and drink beer, listen to music and watch the gators swim by. No problems. Until UPD showed up.
We lived in Lakeland in 69. There was a lake in the center of town with a “resident gator.” Blinkie IIRC. One day the alligator killed a large German Shepherd while the woman and her son watched in horror as their dog let out several loud wells and went silent. They were on the sidewalk watching their dog pee on the grass.
The city council voted to not take any action since the dog owner was clearly to blame and not the gator which had slithered up out of the lake.
Humans have now claimed FL as their home, it's time to get rid of the gators. As in every war, to the winners go the spoils...........
#gatorsgottago......