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- May 14, 2010
Praying for that child and family. Horrific. I can't even imagine...
Apparently this gator tikiman had the photo of was caught. This would be a different gator.Apparently about a month ago a gator was spotted during the day in the lake. A photo of the gator was on the tikiman Facebook page.
Yes that is part of the problem and gators are drawn in by that. This gator if true was likely hungry and looking for food.DO NOT FEED the gators, this draws them in and makes them associate people with food, when normally they'd just mind their own business. I've seen people feeding them over there before, and hoped nothing like this would happen.
Apparently about a month ago a gator was spotted during the day in the lake. A photo of the gator was on the tikiman Facebook page.
The ferry boats have been shut down for the night during the search.
Ok good to know. The report I saw was recent so maybe it was incorrect.They might have at first but running now
Got sent that news story while putting the little one to bed. How incredibly sad. My prayers go out to that family, I deeply hope a miracle will be delivered.
Yes, I understand it's FL, I lived in Miami so understand how dangerous they are and adept at getting around (where you don't want them). I have seen them quite often at several locations in WDW, including MK last year. I guess I just assumed, since it is FL, that if Disney was going to let families that close to the water they had a system in place, that may not catch all of them, but at least the larger ones. I have to think they were confident as well or there's no way they would be allowing access to the beach area let alone showing movies that close to the water at night. So, so sad and scary Twice in one week I had to use a sad emojiIt's a Florida fresh body of water. Gators are there and sometimes even through connected canals are spotted inside the the magic kingdom. It's something that really can't be avoided in Florida.
IIRC they usually relocate at about 6 feet.Unconfirmed report of a 7 foot gator
http://www.laughingplace.com/w/news/2016/06/14/gator-drags-child-seven-seas-lagoon/