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In reply to the discussion: I admit it, I'm dumb about alligators. [View all]pnwmom
(110,318 posts)only said no swimming, and didn't mention alligators.
For example:
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/tourism/os-disney-alligator-history-20160615-story.html
Grand Floridian custodian Mike Hamilton was so concerned by alligators occasionally swimming up close to the shore of Walt Disney World's Seven Seas Lagoon, he said he warned managers they should fence off the area.
"There are signs that say, 'No swimming,' but no signs that say gators and everything else in this lake," he said.
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San Diego attorney David Hiden told the Orlando Sentinel on Wednesday that last year he whisked his son to safety at Disney's Coronado Springs after a gator approached the boy playing in calf-deep water. Then Hiden saw a second gator nearby. Hiden said a hotel manager called one of them a "resident pet" and seemed unconcerned.
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Alfred Smith of Charleston, S.C., said he alerted a Grand Floridian employee Tuesday night after seeing a gator in the lagoon. He thinks it's the same one that attacked the boy less an hour later.
"I did warn another family of three that had small kids too close to the water and they along with another family took their children and left," Smith said via email.