Stop tying to make feck happen!*

When I was a kid my sister died car accident. My Mom sent me to a grief group for siblings and I heard stories like yors a lot. It made me understand what a lot of people don't, it really does happen in a second. Also, not everything is foreseeable. I'm sorry about your brother.

If it said “No Swimming” I’m not sure I’d know that. “No Swimming” in my area means “Don’t go in up to your waist or deeper, as there is no lifeguard to save you,” not “Seriously, not even a fucking toe in the water.”

I don’t think the sign said “stay away from the water”. It’s cool and all that you want the parents to shoulder 100% of the blame for watching their child die screaming but I’m not sure that 100% is a fair amount.

About 25% of my exes are like that.

I am very hurt by comments that it is the family’s fault for letting their child get too close to the water. Parents can turn their back on their child for seconds and something like this could happen. My little brother died because my mom left my 6 year old brother in the backyard for a few minutes to make him lunch.…

We all have one (or more) of those, right? I’m just glad mine can’t talk to the media.

And they’re such a novelty for tourists. They think nothing of throwing the rest of their sandwich off a dock for the gators to fight over. Guarantee that gator was comfortable coming to shore because it was getting fed.

I know you are making a joke, but in reality that IS one of the problems they are not addressing. Guests in the Polynesian resort villas and other places have been tossing food to the Alligators. All those resorts are on the same body of water. The minute you feed an alligator they no longer fear people, and that is…

It’s not like they have to advertise the fact on their website before you buy tickets. And seeing the sign means you have in fact bought tickets already.

This. I’m from Scotland and my daughter’s BF goes to Florida Disney every year and even she wasn’t fully aware. I had no clue that there would be alligators there.

Suggestion heard and accepted for conservation reasons. Also fire ants can feck off.

If I were in the Everglades yeah I’d realize it. Also, like, you know those big like gates over the back of pools in Florida to keep the gators out? That would remind me. But in Disney world? It just wouldn’t occur to me. I don’t live with them, so without the reminder of A. you are in the wilderness like the…

Hadn’t seen that angle before. That water looks very sketchy to this northerner.

I agree with you wholeheartedly on Disney’s motivation for never putting signs up in the first place; it endangers the aura of “the happiest place on earth”. (Not as much as a two-year-old getting dragged horribly to their death, but hindsight is 20/20.) This will never go to court: Disney will quietly settle a metric…

Maybe fire ants, because bees are important. I think.

There won’t be a lawsuit. Disney always settles out of court and pays VERY handsomely when they do so. This family won’t have to worry about money for a very long time but I doubt its any consultation.

Motion to smother the word “sexcapade” in honey and bees and set it on fire and catapult it off a cliff all in favor say aye.

That is a major problem but the tourists who do not know that other guests feed the gators leading them to lose their fear of humans pay the price. Anyone local knows to stay away from water sources but this whole thing was poorly handled. The signs are important. Poor little guy.

Walt Disney World Resort is adding warning signs around the resort area where a 2-year-old boy died in an alligator attack.