Sorry, I didn't quite have my coffee yet when I posted this. Allow me to explain, as stated a fence without removing the gators from a single pond will end up in starvation for the gators and PETA and animal rights would be all over it. In the water, on the bank, it doesn't matter - several gators can't be restricted to a few acres of water and expected to survive. They COULD be relocated, however as stated, there is no guarantee they wouldn't return via interconnected waterways unless everything was blocked off - even THEN, digging under the fence would still be very possible as this is how they aestivate, spending their winters in "gator holes" to shield themselves from the cold.
Let's consider a few things -
1.) of the 2,000 Crocodile attacks every year in Africa and Australia whose fault is it? Regardless where it takes place, these things are EVERYWHERE except the desert and savannahs. At least SOME attacks had to have happened on private property.
2.) The number #1 animal in the world that kills more people than anything else, the Mosquito with the death toll numbering as high as 250,000 is much more of a threat, and they are found everywhere in the world except Antarctica. If you are at any resort or private property anywhere, you run a risk of catching Mosquito-born/transmitted disease. How is this different? If you get bit by a Mosquito and contract malaria in a resort in the Amazon, does it mean that it's the resort's fault and they should be sued?
Same could be said for getting Lyme Disease from a tick that bit you while you were on a Mountain vacation while renting a cabin. What if YOU got sued because someone got stung by a scorpion on your property? Would you still feel the same? Texans all know the state is a haven for Scorpions, but what about people from other states who come to visit you? You're making a PHENOMENALLY complicated situation with too many grey areas sound completely cut-and-dry with nothing but black-and-whites.
Think about it, Borg.
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This is a very fine line we're walking
Finally, the staff were aware people were feeding the alligators. Granted, feeding them makes them more accustomed to humans and now they see humans and believe everytime they see human they will get food. These were hotel guests, that were feeding them, not Staff. I assume there must have been signs not to feed the gators if people felt it was important to bring it to Staff's attention, right?
Yet it was still done anyway and for quite some time. Shouldn't each and every hotel guest who fed the gators ALSO be held partially responsible for the attack and liable? I think so. How? Good question,, but just because we can't blame the people responsible, we're going to take the next best thing? Really? While we are busy pointing the finger at who we think is responsible, there are 3 fingers pointing back at us. Make no mistake - we did this to ourselves.
Is that what Americans are coming to?
