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Originally Posted by burn_this_city
Not sure why the boy was in the water when there is signage saying no swimming and warning of gators. Walking along water there is dangerous even for an adult. My grandparents knew a lady who got grabbed by one in the 80s. People in their development would lose dogs to them and it was especially dangerous at night.
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He wasn't in the water. He was near the water and dragged in.
Others have mentioned it, but in Florida Alligators are all over. The place is essentially one big drained swamp. The alligators will invade every pool, storm drainage, etc..those alligator warning signs are all over. I don't fault the parents for the fact that there actually happened to be an alligator near this particular sign.
In Canada, we're quite sheltered from the dangers of nature. As you get closer to the equator, things like Alligators, snakes, poisonous spiders, scorpions, etc...become more of a day to day threat and will strike pretty randomly. As the population of Florida continues to expand, we'll see more and more of these types of attacks. The population has doubled since 1980.