Alligator drags Toddler in water at Disney Resort

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at my age I am happy to g,, err never mind.
 
Anything big and reptilian with teeth is not a good thing to go near, and they still havnt learnt that after this and 4 jurassic park movies

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This isn't the first time this happened at Disney. I do blame Disney almost 100% now.

Less than a week before Father’s Day, Matt and Melissa Graves of Elkhorn, Nebraska, lost their 2-year-old son, Lane, to an alligator attack at Walt Disney World.

Another father who nearly lost his own son a year ago during a family vacation at Disney is now speaking out about the tragedy.

David Hiden, a San Diego attorney, says that in April 2015, two alligators came towards his 6-year-old son while they were staying at Disney's Coronado Springs Resort in Orlando – just a few miles from where 2-year-old Lane was killed last week after an alligator attacked him while he was wading in about a foot of water at the Grand Floridian Resort & Spa.

"[My son] was playing and I looked past his head because something caught my attention and it was an alligator," Hiden tells PEOPLE. "I grabbed him and brought him up to the path where it's safe. I then noticed a second alligator."

Hiden says he immediately warned authorities at the resort about the alligators, which he estimated to be about six feet each.

"When I went up to management, I was expecting them to flip out, immediately call security and get on the loud speaker to tell people to get out of the water," he says. "But instead, they said, 'These are resident pets and they're not harmful. They can't hurt anybody and we've known about them for years.' "
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But how is Disney supposed to gatorproof their grounds with all those open waterways?
 
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Hello; Some years ago a fellow was riding a bicycle at night on a public road. He was not wearing reflective clothes and did not have any lights on the bicycle. The bicycle had the small reflectors hat come on them. He got hit by a car.
He sued the bike maker and won a settlement.
The loss of a child is tragic and it would be nice if somehow all threats and risks could be removed.
I can see how signs with more specific information about alligators would help, but not sure how all threat can be removed.
Many years ago n the Smoky MT's my mother approached a bear to get a picture. Had my small sister with her. She got close. A ranger showed up, jumped from his truck and banged the ground with a stout stick. (looked like an ax handle) He gave my mother a good chewing out. She deserved it.
As already mentoned in this thread, every location has some sort of natural hazard.
 
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Did they locate the man eating reptile and exterminate it yet?
 
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