Gator snatches 2 y/o at Disney Resort #FLLiving

[jjs07]

Playing their "victim story"?

You know they lost their child?

Some of yall gotta be trollin

I'm just saying it's mighty easy to play victim. Everybody in the world is looking to be sympathetic to them and not thinking about where they were during the snatching.

Playing a victim when losing a child within the past 2-3 days...

Does that even make any sense to you, bruh?

 

[filthyjiujitsu]

I think everyone most people understand the parents are going through trauma. For sure don't let a 2 yr old chill near a lagoon at night though. Especially when you don't have much to worry about on a vacation night. One of the few things you have to worry about at a resort should be your 2 year old.

 

[kingkoopa]

I think everyone understands that the parents are going through trauma. For sure don't let a 2 yr old chill near a lagoon at night though. Especially when you don't have much to worry about on a vacation night. One of the few things you have to worry about at a resort should be your 2 year old.

Who doesn't get that.

Parents made simple mistake and will have to live the rest of their lives dealing with it.

But that's not enough for NTers because they're white?

 

[verbal kint]

WTF is noone elses mind blown by this?!

 

[kingkoopa]

 
WTF is noone elses mind blown by this?!

I've seen it before and the training is cruel.

Would rather just be extra careful around water.

 

[49ersaaron8]

I was weirded out not really mind blown.

 

[Benny Hinn]

WTF is noone elses mind blown by this?!

By what? Hell, a lot of adults should be taught this as well

 

[verbal kint]

By what? Hell, a lot of adults should be taught this as well

that a toddler has the capacity to retain such information in an emergency situation such as falling in a large body of water..

 

[youngheadjenks5]

Hey if they were paying attention to their child maybe we wouldn't be having this convo. Ijs. Just like gorilla parents if the lady was paying attention harambe would still be here.

 

[bossdonvah]

Who doesn't get that.

Parents made simple mistake and will have to live the rest of their lives dealing with it.

But that's not enough for NTers because they're white?

A simple mistake? Reports said the parents were a few feet AWAY from a TWO year old child in water..that's terrible parenting

 

[bowflex]

By what? Hell, a lot of adults should be taught this as well

I'm a grown man and I need to learn this. I can "swim", I just can't float. Once I stop moving, I go right to the bottom. Gonna have me in the pool trying that little leg trick this weekend lmao

 

[Kimchi Papi]

My brother lives in Oveido, FL & has a back yard pool. As soon as my nephew could crawl, he had him in those swimming lessons. It was terrile because he'd be crying when coming up for air but would still go through the drills & such. It paid off though because he's 4 or 5 now & can swim like a fish.

Getting back to this situation though, the resort is extremely negligent for not having signs warning of gators. Having said that though, these parents are numbskulls for letting their child play in these shore line of a lagoon in Florida at night. Regardless of if they're from Nebraska, gators are every where n Florida & are nocturnal hunters who are very territorial & can be very aggresive. They're damn fast & agile on land too.

Terrible parenting choice they made that night. As a parent, I do feel for their loss though. I can't begin to imagine the pain & grief they must be going through. Sad, sad, sad.

 

[49ersaaron8]

A simple mistake? Reports said the parents were a few feet AWAY from a TWO year old child in water..that's terrible parenting

Yeah a few feet away.

That area should have had gator warning signs everywhere before I'd be prepared to call this anymore than a small parenting error. Pops was so close it's been reported he tussled with the gator briefly.

 

[filthyjiujitsu]

A simple mistake? Reports said the parents were a few feet AWAY from a TWO year old child in water..that's terrible parenting

Yeah. This notion that bad parenting equates to a simple mistake is just insane. This scenario is not ok. Even if the parents were oblivious to Florida's wildlife.

Keeping your 2 year old from harming himself should be high on the list of parenting. I don't care if you are on vacation at a disney resort.

 

[jjs07]

The child was in 1-2 feet of water. That's VERY deep for a toddler. On top of it all, just think about how murky the waters are during the daytime...being in that mess at 9-9:30 at night makes things THAT much worse.

And as I mentioned before, don't just think that because you're on Disney grounds you're safe from all of this. Remember where the resort is built. You're on swampland.

Can anyone link the article(s) stating that the parents weren't that close by? I didn't see anything on that.

 

[Kimchi Papi]

I don't really think it matters if the parents were close by or not in this situation. That kid was going to get snatched up regardless given the circumstances. The prudent parenting choice was not being on the beach of the lagoon at night.

Also, Disney should've had better security measures too.

 

[mynameaintg]

if you really think about it, the parenting in this situation is more negligent than that of Harambe vs Lil Man.

 

[youngheadjenks5]

I'm sure no article is going to report their bad parenting out of sympathy.

I don't really think it matters if the parents were close by or not in this situation. That kid was going to get snatched up regardless given the circumstances. The prudent parenting choice was not being on the beach of the lagoon at night.

Also, Disney should've had better security measures too.

If they tried to sue Disney I'm sure their parenting would come into play.

 

[Kimchi Papi]

if you really think about it, the parenting in this situation is more negligent than that of Harambe vs Lil Man.

Oh I agree... The first thing my wifey & I said when we saw this story. In addition to the racist angle, I do think the bad parenting angle isn't being talked about because their child died.

 

[datznasty]

The armchair activist in me was also upset to learn that Disney traps and kills dozens of gators on their property annually. They use the same technques they did to locate the body (sonar, helipcopters, divers, etc) to locate gators on their grounds and then they take them and don't relocate them to the wild, they kill them.

That being the case, they could add "Gators" to the signs (some of them do say it some just say "no swimming") and/or a small picket fence lining the water or something since their manmade lakes all connect to natural ones and as such are going to have gators.

The Disney guy also said guest feeding them is part of the problem, especially at the Polynesian resort there's 2 that come and people feed them from the balcony.

 

[julesbeats]

Smh you would think Disney would of took more precaution, knowing gators are roaming their resorts...

 

[filthyjiujitsu]

The Disney guy also said guest feeding them is part of the problem, especially at the Polynesian resort there's 2 that come and people feed them from the balcony

D'oh! Maybe building lagoons in resorts geared towards children was a bad idea in hindsight.

 

[hand2handking]

 

found this on another forum

 

[RIP sleazyy]

Yes the gorilla incident is 10 x worse tha. The gorilla incident but the parents aren't dragged threw the mud because they have the complexion for protection.

Was talking to someone about this last night. The conversations online are night and day about the situations.

Gorilla incident kids mom would probably have been locked up if that little boy died.

RIP the kid though. We're going to Florida in August and will damn sure not be walking through murky brown water.

 

[RIP sleazyy]

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