Posted on 06/15/2016 4:20:07 AM PDT by Kaslin
Authorities in Florida said at a news conference Wednesday they are still searching for a child who was attacked and dragged into the water by an alligator at a Disney resort.
Orange County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Jeff Williamson said authorities plan to continue searching the Seven Seas Lagoon at Disney World’s The Grand Floridian Resort & Spa and said it’s still a search and rescue operation.
Williamson said the 2-year-old boy was playing at the edge of the shoreline of the lagoon when the alligator came up and attacked the boy. Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings said earlier that the boy’s family is from Nebraska and they were on vacation with their three children at the resort when the alligator attacked.
Demings said the father had entered the water and tried to grab the child from the reptile, but was unsuccessful. The parents quickly alerted a lifeguard that an alligator had attacked the boy.
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When I was a firefighter we had a horrible house fire one day where two children died in an upstairs bedroom.
The parents had recently taken out a $100,000.00 insurance policy on them.
Our fire investigators determined that the couple had doused the downstairs and the stairway with flammable liquids, put the kids down to take a nap, lit the fire and walked up to the store.
Thinking they would hit the jackpot. Both were convicted of the two murders of their children due to the results of the fire investagators.
Not saying the parents in FL did anything like this but greedy people are greedy.
May God bless this little boy and his fily.
I can’t imagine anyone taking insurance out on their children. That they did should have been a flag and the insurance company should have never issued the policy, they were probably most interested in the premium payments.
evidently the boy’s father wrestled with the alligator to try and free his kid...
I read it was movie night by the beach. Doesn’t matter now. They have lost their child.
Why are the alligators protected and not hunted?
Yes, the area was posted. Alligators take their kills and hide them under water until the flesh begins to decompose. Then they consume them.
“I can’t imagine anyone taking insurance out on their children.”
I agree with you. The only life insurance on children I’ve ever heard about that doesn’t sound sinister — ghoulish, perhaps, but not sinister — would be a term life insurance policy, for, say, $5,000 or $10,000 to cover burial costs if the child dies. Someone told me that some poor and working class people used to buy them decades ago so they wouldn’t have to pass around a hat if, God forbid, one of their children died.
I wonder if Disney had clear sign-posts warning Alligators present by the lagoon/pond. If not, get ready for lawsuits.
Even my condo complex has clearly visible sign-posts with Alligator warnings. On my morning walks by the pond, occasionally I see the gator staring at me as I walk by lol.
Because that will make them extinct. Alligators do not invade our homes. We should not invade their home, the water pond. Alligators have been on this earth since the dinosaur era, many millions of years before humans appeared. It is a dirty shame so many wild species have been made extinct or near extinct by humans.
I heard there were “no swimming” signs, but nothing warning of alligators. And that the father fought to save his child.
My heart breaks for this family :(
I pick humans over alligators.
No need to hunt everything to extinction.But reducing the numbers and habitat of nature’s toothed predators is what allowed humans to live.
Would you want the dinosaurs roaming the earth eating humans ?
Because that will make them extinct.
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Alligators are no longer a threatened species. They are still protected because it means more government. They should be eradicated in some areas.
And don’t get me started on the Florida panther, which biologically doesn’t exist.
‘here come the lawyers’
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As well they should.
This poor child grabbed by by an alligator on the shore of this Disney lake in one less than one foot of water is horror beyond belief.
The parents should not be blamed. It is perfectly normal for a child of that age to be wading around in very shallow water. How were they to know a monster would lunge out of the water and drag away the child on Disney property.
It is my understanding that there were no warnings against alligators posted, although many tourists had reported sightings.
What were these dangerous predators even doing in the lake on Disneyland property?
They should have all been captured and removed- or better killed.
It will not alleviate the horrendous agony suffered by the parents of this poor child, but Disney should be sued for millions for allowing this to happen.
Maybe it would help to prevent another such tragedy.
The only place there are no gators in Florida is in the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico.
It must be assumed that gators are in every lake in FL, because there are gators in just about every lake in FL.
I hope Disney fight this. The parents were naive fools and unfortunately the child paid the price.
If public Jihadi attacks are not enough to convince you, here is yet another reason for daily CCW. You never know when your sidearm will be needed. I heard the dad struggled unsuccessfully with the gator before the gator left with his son.
Yes. My siblings and I had one on us.
Life insurance on children is what responsible, caring, parents will do.
Most insurance policies allow for a children’s rider for a reasonable amount of insurance, and a very low premium.
That way if the child dies there is immediate money for a funeral.
First I’ve heard of this... how horrible! Was there more public outrage and press on the gorilla being shot in Cincinnati zoo than this child?
Seems some parents are not on guard with their children. Don’t realize the danger all around them.
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