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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
Couldn't disagree more. There is nothing disingenuous about saying they shouldn't have known.
Frankly the idea that anyone has to be afraid of any animal in all places anywhere is silly. It's like saying everyone in Calgary should be aware of wolves, bears and mountain lions at all times when they step out their door to go to work in the morning. Yes they are prevalent in some places, but only idiot tourists think we take dog sleds to work and kill bears with our bare hands and make coats out of their pelts.
Unless there were signs saying beware of wildlife and specifically gators, I'd assume they were being over protective tourists if they just assumed that there could be gators everywhere.
There is an overwhelming responsibility of the park to ensure that their guests are aware of any dangers from staying at the resort.
So either Disney was totally incompetent, which is highly unlikely, or they also thought there was about a zero chance of being a gator attack.
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These things are not nearly as common, nor are they commonly in urban areas, in Calgary. But yes, you go hiking pretty much anywhere in the parks there are signs warning people of bears/cougars and even how to deal with them if an attack happens. And those attacks are much less frequent than gator attacks in Florida. We don't really have a comparable because, as mentioned, we come from a place where the wildlife danger is pretty benign. But that doesn't mean people shouldn't make themselves aware of such things in the places I'm travelling to. We constantly get on people who get themselves lost or caught in avalanches when crossing ski line boundaries. Generally those signs just say "No Ski Zone", "Ski Boundary" or "Avalanche Area" and have a small rope that's not blocking anyone. People still go there, and we all call them idiots when they get in trouble. What would we as Canadians say if someone took their kid across that line?
I agree that that Disney should have more specific signs, and likely more visible signs, and that it's probably the biggest failure of the whole thing. All I'm saying is that, being from a place without such threats, seeing a sign beside a body of water in Florida would instantly make me think of gators. And no, people shouldn't be going around afraid of everything, there's probably a higher risk of the kid drowning in the water than being attacked by a gator, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't be aware of the fact that gators are everywhere there, and you should be careful around pretty much any body of water. And yeah, I think some people in here are being a little disingenuous about their thoughts on going into water in Florida. Like never in a million years would you have thought a gator attack could occur in a Florida lagoon? Really? Like I said, maybe it's just me, but it would literally be the first thing to cross my mind, with or without signs.