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Originally Posted by Joe Nieuwendyk
The fact is, the parents put the children in more danger when they travelled from the airport to the resort. If they had been hit by a semi and the 2 year old died, we wouldn't have heard about it. Instead, they suffered the far less likely event of having their child killed by an alligator in a heavily monitored (mind you, not perfectly) body of water at a luxury resort. Now they're labelled bad parents.
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They are being labelled bad parents because they were in the water that was clearly marked "no swimming" with their 2 year old at 9:30 at night. We can sit here and argue all night about whether you should or shouldn't expect there to be alligators in that water, but there's no arguing the fact that if they had simply followed the rules/signage, this doesn't happen. I'm not going to sit here and call them idiots over and over again though, because it's pointless and i'm sure they don't need to be reminded about what went wrong as they will likely play it over and over again for the rest of their life.
This incident aside, I travel quite a lot and I find this attitude of "The rules don't apply to me while i'm on vacation" seems to becoming more and more apparent, especially among people in the 25-40 range. Even more so among US travellers in my opinion. We seem to be hearing a lot more about these vacation tragedies/accidents lately and I wonder if the two are related? Maybe some of these places don't have adequate security because in the past, people respected the rules more and it wasn't an issue. At what point to we start barricading things up so no one can enjoy themselves to prevent the few who break the rules from injuring themselves or others?