He wasn’t in the damn lake, he was walking on the waters edge of a sand beach on a man made lake. None of those preclude that (except poop which I threw in because it’s sometimes true but certainly not at an expensive resort).

What about the fact that alligators can walk on land and there is no restriction about being on the water’s edge?

I was being hyperbolic. They look like monsters.

Most people don’t know that. And, even if they do, they assume that paying hundreds of dollars to stay at the resort of a theme park designed for kids would maybe keep them out.

Fecal contamination is a reason not to dip your feet in. The other things are reasons not to go wading in — not reasons not to stand in up to your ankles.

Definitely a Southern thing. Someone unfamiliar with the gator problem needs to be told. I grew up in NY but my mother was raised in Louisiana so I would at least think it was a possibility, but I can pretty much guarantee the minds of people from Nebraska don’t go there (pretty sure it’s not on the website of their…

That would make sense. Or just “do not go near water’s edge.” The water was apparently around a foot deep. Swimming that is not and it’s absolutely horrible that people are acting like these parents flouted the signs and are culpable.

Sticking your feet in water is not swimming.

Did anything about the article seem remotely judgmental? You’re putting your own interpretation in a factual headline.

I thought Trump wasn't beholden to special interest groups? Why is he meeting with them about gun control laws?

Why were you horrified by the title?

I just want to highlight this passage for anyone who skims or just jumps to the comments. Because truer words.

I wonder if they have a good banter because they begrudgingly like each other or they sit on opposite sides of the table smiling tightly while fantasizing about the most gruesome ways to murder one another.

Police shot him - not civilians with guns. And the perpetrator is dead because he had access to a gun. No one needed to die, including him.

Ha! I didn’t realize there was such a thing. I can’t possibly get absorbed into a Twitter world without quitting my job and abandoning my children, but if gawker media comments disappear, I'm relieved there will be a place to find everyone!

? I don’t have a twitter associated with this account, just a real live person one.

Nah, that’s usually the kind of thing I reserve for sexual experiences rather than reading about frightening news stories.

But since Texas is an open carry state, are they not pretty liberal with that kind of license. I don’t live there so I base this entirely on news here-say.

I had the same thought. I was under the impression that a Walmart is one of the go to places to get quick and easy access to guns of all sorts. The irony stings.

the man who will soon be befouling the sheets of the White House with spray tan and greasy sweat