Gator at Disney
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That's good. I was debating whether or not you'd even want to find the body. On one hand, it would provide some closure. On the other hand, if it had been bad mauled I'm not sure that's a sight I'd want to see.
According to this last report they were all wading in the water and the kid was in about 1 foot of water. I think this fact would help in Disney's defense.
So the gator didn't eat him, hmm.
This quote from the link struck me as odd ""We're going to make certain that we have the alligator that was involved, and that we remove it from the lake," he said."
One of nature's apex predators and he's wondering how the father let the gator get away with it. lulz
In my opinion, lawyers will have a field day with this. You have a beach, that leads into a body of water, at a resort geared towards children. You also have signage that basically admits to the water not being safe. I think you could certainly argue with all those factors it becomes incumbent on Disney to owe a little higher duty of care to their patrons than a sign (that a 2 year old kid can't read, of course) saying to stay out of the water.
Perhaps I am, but it doesn't take a law degree to see that Disney set this up as a beach for children, admitted some form of danger, and did nothing to protect the kids from the danger short of putting up some signs.
Morbidly, there wasnt enough time. Anything they cant eat whole, they stash under the water until it rots, then they consume it as its easier to take apart. So gross.
It also doesn't take a law degree to see that every waterway in Florida is subject to gators. Signs or no signs. Just like someone here earlier said it is like a bear at a National Forest. Or Sharks at the ocean. I imagine Disney will do whatever they can do to help the family out. But with Lawyers involved they really can't do anything because then they maybe "admitting fault". This lagoon is private. But it is attached to creeks and lakes that are public.
short of filling in the lake or building a fence (which would be really ugly) there is nothing disney can physically do to protect from this. what else would they do short of draining or building a fence?
Yeah, Florida's comparative negligence, so they won't have to pay everything, but they'll be liable for some of it.
Haven't been able to stop thinking about this all day no matter how hard I try to block it out. What I picture in my head is horrifying and I'm sure it doesn't come close to what that poor family went through. Living with that pain and guilt for the rest of your life would be so hard. Losing a child so young is terrible no matter how it happens but this is an absolute nightmare. No doubt I'll be holding mine extra close tonight.
I'm just sitting here thinking about my kids when they were 2. I absolutely cannot imagine what the parents are going through right now.
I was in FL, in 1997, when the last toddler was killed. Gators kill their prey and then let them sit in the water to soften before eating the prey. Same thing in 2007, found the body of the toddler floating next to the HUGE gator that grabbed him. Not surprised that they found them body intact. Horrific situation
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My niece went to preschool with the older child. This is a horrible situation.
We all have the luxury of dissecting every little detail to understand and try to lay blame when in reality this is just an unthinkable tragedy on an innocent family.
We all have the luxury of dissecting every little detail to understand and try to lay blame when in reality this is just an unthinkable tragedy on an innocent family.