2yr old taken by alligator near Disney land.

Horrible story :(
Alligator's going to alligator at the end of the day something, something you should be aware of or at least warned of in such a place.
More signs and warnings i hope, to try and prevent this happening again.


[TFU] Thegoon84;29628912 said:
Are alligators good for anything? Perhaps a massive cull!
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Fine specimen of a human being you are.
 
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Having been to Disney many times and chilled out on that very beach, it is quite horrific to know that this has happened. There are signs stressing not to enter the water and other warnings of gator activity at dawn and dusk.

Any visitor to Florida should be aware that any body of water bigger than a puddle is likely to have a gator in it. Lots of incidents on golf courses too.
 
My first thought on seeing the story was how hard it must be for the parents. The second was that there would be at least one of these:

[TFU] Thegoon84;29628912 said:
Are alligators good for anything? Perhaps a massive cull!
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People never disappoint. :rolleyes:
 
eddiemcgarrigle said:
Having been to Disney many times and chilled out on that very beach, it is quite horrific to know that this has happened. There are signs stressing not to enter the water and other warnings of gator activity at dawn and dusk.

Any visitor to Florida should be aware that any body of water bigger than a puddle is likely to have a gator in it. Lots of incidents on golf courses too.
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Agreed. I've been to Florida 4 times and have always been made aware of Aligators.

You should always be cautious of water even if you think there aren't any.

Really sad this has happened.
 
It's well known there are aligators wild in Florida, tragic but not massively surprising.. you simply don't go near water, unless its one of the thousands of swimming pools available. Hardly the alligators fault.
 
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cheesyboy said:
You don't kill rats, ant, flies etc when they're causing inconvenience?
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Killing some flies in a house or a ant hill in your garden does very little in the grand scheme of things, as well as the odd rat trap kill but a large cull of all the main predators in the area?

You will end up with some other infestation and in a few years they will boom in population due to their food source becoming abundant again.

Real answer would be to follow the warnings.
 
DannyDrama said:
People never disappoint. :rolleyes:
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Rossi~ said:
Horrible story :(



Fine specimen of a human being you are.
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As some one has pointed out.... You don't kill rats, flies, badgers, etc.... There's been an increase in human eating alligators... If this was a case of they ignored the warnings then fair enough. If not and as a parent I'd expect some sort of control to be put in place.... or am I'm being thsupid and not caring too much about man eating animals natural instincts?

Avenged7Fold said:
Killing some flies in a house or a ant hill in your garden does very little in the grand scheme of things, as well as the odd rat trap kill but a large cull of all the main predators in the area?

You will end up with some other infestation and in a few years they will boom in population due to their food source becoming abundant again.

Real answer would be to follow the warnings.
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So just leave the population to grow then yes? And feed them little babies yes?

Anyways.... I don't live there, so makes no difference to me. RIP to the poor little lad, and whether or not the parents were to blame... Thoughts to them! Horrific and an image I imagine will never leave the mind.
 
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Since I booked flights to Orlando 3 weeks ago there has been a singer shot, a mass shooting and a child eaten by an Alligator.
 
Scary story, I can't imagine what the family are going through the thought of watching my little boy go through that and fighting to save him is truly horrible.

No idea of the full circumstances but tragic none the less.
 
[TFU] Thegoon84;29629343 said:
If this was a case of they ignored the warnings then fair enough. If not and as a parent I'd expect some sort of control to be put in place.... or am I'm being thsupid and not caring too much about man eating animals natural instincts?.
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They did ignore the warnings and the population of alligators is not unmanageable. If people behaved appropriately, there would be no risk of incidents.

If parents require more control than warning signs to stay away from the alligators, then they frankly need to learn to parent rather than need more animal control. Very easy to blame a company or a name over a grieving mother and father but fact of the matter is, you cant keep shifting blame onto the animals and landowners.

Animal gonna animal and so expecting everyone to accommodate for your safety is only going to lead to carelessness.

It is a sad story but it seems that every day i am reading about a child that is a victim as a result of negligence. I am against punishing of parents (which some seem to call for) in incidences like these but shifting blame to the land owners or animals achieves nothing except rids them of their failure to keep an eye on warning signs and failures.
 
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Mr Joshua said:
I'd like to think if it had been my child or family then I wouldn't be coming out of the water without the child.
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This. If I was the father I don't think I could handle it tbh, first stop would be the nearest gun shop...

[TFU] Thegoon84;29629343 said:
There's been an increase in human eating alligators...
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More likely there's been an increase in the level of contact between humans an alligators (due to various reasons such as humans encroaching on their habitat, killing their natural foodsources etc.), which has obviously indirectly increased the number of "incidents"

[TFU] Thegoon84;29629343 said:
or am I'm being thsupid and not caring too much about man eating animals natural instincts?
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yes. yes you are.

The problem with culling an apex predator like an alligator is that you leave a gaping hole in the ecosystem, meaning a) something else will take it's place, b) the animals that the alligator feeds on will have no population control, either causing issues by themselves, or encouraging other predators to the area, or as Avenged7Fold posted, will cause a subsequent population boom of alligators... and what do you think they're going to eat after they bring the population of their prey animals down to a normal level (below what is needed to sustain the elevated alligator population)?
 
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