Posted on 07/14/2016 6:47:54 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The admonitions were in emails from employees at Reedy Creek Emergency Services. Reedy Creek is the Disney-controlled taxing district that provides government services to the theme parks and surrounding areas.
The emails were obtained through a public-records request made after an alligator snatched 2-year-old Lane Graves from the shore of the Seven Seas Lagoon on June 14 and drowned him while he was on vacation with family from Nebraska. The attack took place at Grand Floridian Resort & Spa.
After that, many tourists came forward with their own stories of alligator sightings at Disney. One employee at the resort said at the time there was a problem with guests feeding the animals.
According to the emails, firefighters were feeding at least one of two alligators hanging around Fire Station 3, located off Floridian Way on Maple Road less than a half-mile from Seven Seas Lagoon and less than a mile from Grand Floridian. One gator was a baby. The second was estimated to be between 4 and 5 feet long.
Reedy Creek District Administrator John Classe said he believes the feedings were not widespread throughout the resort.
Feeding alligators is illegal because it causes the animals to lose their natural fear of humans.
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Marsh-mellows need to be outlawed in Orlando.
There’s gotta be a parable in here somewhere.
All heart and no head problem with Disney resort. This illustrates a bit more than just the problem misguided a human judgement can be with animal control in an amusement park.
I wonder how many Alligators got shot around Disney because they are now fearless around humans.
What's the difference between an alligator and a condom?"
Answer: You don't f***k with an alligator!
Does it matter how many were shot there is no shortage of gators now.
Exactly. Reading between the lines, I see this article trying to make the case for a billion dollar lawsuit against Disney. Normally I’d be against it, but I hate Disney enough that I wouldn’t mind it.
What the hell does skin color have to do with this story?
Today, all stories involve skin color. It is 0bama’s true legacy.
No.
Don’t aid and abet the race baiters.
My guess is that some of these people have seen too many Disney animated features with wild animals singing and dancing and acting like people. When they encountered a real alligator, they confused fantasy with reality and thought these creatures were harmless.
That is hardly the point. No warning signs!
The firefighters should have known better.
Those that ignore what is happening are encouraging it and making it worse.
Yep. I can understand how out of town tourists, people who don’t live in gator country might not understand the danger of feeding gators, even with warnings signs, but certainly, presumably locals like these firefighters should know better.
Actually, it is worse than no warning signs. Disney set a trap for naive tourists , and it worked.
They designed and built white sand beaches on the brackish, backwater lagoons as part of their hotel layout (alligator habitat anywhere in Fla.). It is a sand beach, complete with lounge chairs and beach umbrellas! It just screams “swim here”.
Look FRiend, there are lots of threads about race here. Lots.
Comment on those and you are contributing. Bring race into topics which are entirely unrelated and you are trolling.
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