06-15-2016, 11:18 PM
I read this story this morning and was just immediately heart broken. I didn't even want to open it when I saw the headline.
Alligator Attack At Disney
And after searching all day for the body (the sheriff flat out said earlier that there's no way a 2 year old would survive this long), they have now found the remains of the little boy.
Remains found
What a heartbreaking story. It hit's me pretty close because I just spent some time at a Disney resort and a I can tell you that it was the time of our lives. I've never taken a vacation with the kids (and I didn't grow up with the means to go on a vacation outside of the county zoo or the Milwaukee Public Museum), so I know for a fact that this family was feeling probably exactly the same as I was on our first few days there.
Part of me wants to immediately jump into the "where the hell were the parents?!", especially considering the signs were apparently VERY visible all along the waterfront warning not to enter, but I just can't. I'm jumping to conclusions here, but we stayed at a different resort. We stayed a the Caribbean Beach resort which also has a giant "lake" at the center. There are beaches for swimming, boats that will take you fishing, it's a scenic getaway all around.
Being from Wisconsin, the LAST thing on my mind at any lake is a freakin alligator. I know we're in Florida and all, but I not only let my daughter wade in the shallows while playing but I went with her. Our are didn't have any signs (and swimming wasn't off limits) but it seems from reading the article that the Grand Floridian lake is connected by streams and rivers that lead outside of Disney.
With that said, I saw a video recently of a huge gator walking across a golf course in Florida, so even the beach that I was at isn't safe. If they are walking under the cover of darkness and nobody sees them, they can waltz into a "private" lake any time they want.
So no, I'm not going to blame a family from Nebraska (who also probably never had "gator" in their mind, let alone at a Disney Resort) for what happened to their child, I'm not an insurance adjuster that will assign blame no matter what. It's a heart-wrenching tragedy all around and I just don't have any words that describe how they must feel.
The Golf Course gator by the way (video in the link)
GIANT GATOR!
Rest in Peace little man. Way to damn young...
Alligator Attack At Disney
Quote:A toddler playing outside his waterfront hotel at Walt Disney World was attacked by an alligator Tuesday evening and dragged into a lagoon as his horrified parents looked on, officials said.
The 2-year-old’s father desperately ran into the water and tried to save the boy by wrestling the roughly 6-foot-long gator — and the boy’s mother also tried in vain to free the child, cops said.
But the ferocious reptile was able to pull the boy into the dark lagoon at about 9:30 p.m.
“The father was near the child who was playing in the water when the alligator came up and attacked him,” Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings said at a news conference early Wednesday.
“The father entered the water and tried to grab the child but was not successful.”
Demings said the child and two siblings had been vacationing with their parents since Sunday.
The family, from Nebraska, were enjoying an evening of fireworks and a “movie night” near the Seven Seas Lagoon when tragedy struck.
And after searching all day for the body (the sheriff flat out said earlier that there's no way a 2 year old would survive this long), they have now found the remains of the little boy.
Remains found
Quote:Searchers found the remains of a missing 2-year-old boy, who was dragged away from his family by an alligator near a Disney hotel Tuesday night.
Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings ID'd the child as Lane Graves, son to Matt and Melissa Graves.
What a heartbreaking story. It hit's me pretty close because I just spent some time at a Disney resort and a I can tell you that it was the time of our lives. I've never taken a vacation with the kids (and I didn't grow up with the means to go on a vacation outside of the county zoo or the Milwaukee Public Museum), so I know for a fact that this family was feeling probably exactly the same as I was on our first few days there.
Part of me wants to immediately jump into the "where the hell were the parents?!", especially considering the signs were apparently VERY visible all along the waterfront warning not to enter, but I just can't. I'm jumping to conclusions here, but we stayed at a different resort. We stayed a the Caribbean Beach resort which also has a giant "lake" at the center. There are beaches for swimming, boats that will take you fishing, it's a scenic getaway all around.
Being from Wisconsin, the LAST thing on my mind at any lake is a freakin alligator. I know we're in Florida and all, but I not only let my daughter wade in the shallows while playing but I went with her. Our are didn't have any signs (and swimming wasn't off limits) but it seems from reading the article that the Grand Floridian lake is connected by streams and rivers that lead outside of Disney.
With that said, I saw a video recently of a huge gator walking across a golf course in Florida, so even the beach that I was at isn't safe. If they are walking under the cover of darkness and nobody sees them, they can waltz into a "private" lake any time they want.
So no, I'm not going to blame a family from Nebraska (who also probably never had "gator" in their mind, let alone at a Disney Resort) for what happened to their child, I'm not an insurance adjuster that will assign blame no matter what. It's a heart-wrenching tragedy all around and I just don't have any words that describe how they must feel.
The Golf Course gator by the way (video in the link)
GIANT GATOR!
Rest in Peace little man. Way to damn young...