Posted on 06/15/2016 1:26:22 PM PDT by barmag25
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — The 2-year-old boy who witnesses said was pulled by an alligator into a lagoon near a Walt Disney World hotel has been found dead, a source with knowledge of the investigation told CNN on Wednesday.
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-PJ
Give it a rest and have a heart.
I get so sick of the blame game, especially from people who are just armchair lawyers. Why do we always have to have a culprit?
it’s an accident, for God’s sake. Letting a child wade in water a few feet from you sounds terribly negligent? Really? I guarantee this kind of “neglect” happens thousands of times a day any given place on Earth.
In any case, this was hardly egregious neglect, and you’re just adding insult to injury. These people suffer enough without being spat upon for the “bad parent” label.
Since alligators can walk on land I don’t think there would be any way to keep them out of the water!!!
The “happiest, safest, friendliest place on earth” isn’t going to spoil their image with “beware of the alligators” sign on a family friendly beach next to a child’s playground. This advertising, alone, is enough for a parent to feel they can walk with their child in a foot of water, safely, without their child being attacked by an alligator.
Agree with that. Waste of money on toddlers who won’t recall.
Same approach here with us. ROI for the child. I didn’t go until I was 7, and that was because my drum & baton corps was asked to come to the Bicentennial celebration parade there.
We don’t have cougars, but we have wild turkeys, deer, coyotes, black bear, hawks, owls, pileated woodpeckers, fox, fisher cats, whistlepigs, and more. I love it.
We are miles from the Quabbin Reservoir. It’s a beautiful spot.
The judge was baiting his ambulance chasing cronies. The hazard is obvious. Gators rule Florida and you are always supposed to assume any body of water has a gator.
This is a tragedy but it was not Disney’s fault. Will the whol state of Florida now have to have highly visible signs surrounding all bodies of water warning that there may be an alligator I the water. Will the signs need to lighted as well and in all languages?
Not saying anything nasty about the parents. We all make mistakes. But it is not Disney’s fault.
Had I, as a parent of a 5 and 4 year old seen the sign below, I'd be reticent to get close to the lagoon. "No swimming" sign is what you see at golf courses in KS.
DISNEY did NOT mitigate the threat nor did they disseminate the possible danger those bodies of water pose.
No, but they tend to attack near the water. Over 90% of alligator attacks occur in or near the water.
“This is why you don’t let your kidless splash in water where there are no swimming signs.....particularly in Florida”
I imagine the family figured that since they were at Disneyworld they were safe from the real world.
On that topic the Orlando Islamonutbag had considered attacking Disneyworld.
Normally it would be safe, and I think Disney has a fantastic track record in this regard. Families probably have thousands of times more risk of dying in car wrecks traveling to/from vacations like this.
In southern California you have to beware of the “animals” that surround the Disney property.
Disney tries to captures all that exceed 4 foot. They transfer them to the wild or farms. At least thats what the say?
Prayers for this family! God Bless!
It was that way back in the 70’s also. 45 years of coddling the poor endangered alligator has created man eaters in prolific numbers that have no fear of man.
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Yep. In populated areas they should be eradicated. The only reason not to is that people have been brainwashed to believe that nature is more important than humans.
Post #63 requires your immediate attention!!!
It’s the same folks who, after 9/11, bragged and boasted how THEY wouldn’t have let the plane go down. They would’ve this, they would’ve that... Look at me, I’m BETTER than those people.
Repugnant, but I guess it’s a type of human nature to convince ourselves that bad things only happen to bad/dumb/ugly/inferior — pick your “other” - people.
See #144. I won’t go so far as to say it was Disney’s fault, but it most certainly is their responsibility to “live up to their advertising” so to speak. People already b1tching about the settlement this family will almost certainly receive are disgusting.
See #144. I won’t go so far as to say it was Disney’s fault, but it most certainly is their responsibility to “live up to their advertising” so to speak. People already b1tching about the settlement this family will almost certainly receive are disgusting.
Tommie Woodward, 28, male
July 3, 2015
Suffered severe trauma to a limb when he was attacked and killed in the early morning at a Southeast Texas marina. Woodward ignored warnings not to swim in the water because of the danger of alligators; his last known words were “[fuck] the alligators”.[9][10]
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