Lynne M
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Nov 4, 2001
Couldn't they have at least put the fence just inside the water line to allow wading and getting wet sand for sand castles?
They don't want guests doing that, either.
The water has a high bacterial count, and there's always the risk of a Naegleria infection. Not to mention the water moccasins.
IMO, this is a liability fence. In a world where parents plop their kids down next to a wild bison in Yellowstone so they can take a picture, I don't think anything short of barbed wire fences and guard turrets would be 100% effective in keeping people out of the lagoon. Disney's putting a simple fence there so people have to take the conscious step of going over/under a physical barrier, in hopes that they'll say "hm, maybe I shouldn't be here?"
And failing that, it's something they can point to in court when they're sued. They can say "but look, we put up warning signs AND a fence, and the plaintiff walked right past the signs and climbed over a fence before they jumped into the lagoon and got bitten by a poisonous snake. We're not liable."