Disney resort custodian says he warned managers they should have fences

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89. Actually, I think guests pretty accurately assess the relative risks of, say, getting

into a car accident on the way to Disney vs. an alligator attack at Disney. We accept the risks of driving/flying/taking a train because there is literally no way to get anywhere otherwise, and such things as seat belts, safety regulations for roadways, cars, train tracks, etc., mitigate the risk and reduce it as much as humanly possible. The rest is left up to drivers, whom everyone accepts as fallible and prone to error. It's all fairly cut and dried and drivers accept the risk that a fatal accident can happen.

However, tourists from all over the world arriving at a resort with an inviting beach, chairs and tables by said beach, movie events held at said beach (at night when alligators feed!), cannot be expected to be aware of alligators in the lagoon next to their table, nor can they be expected to know alligator habits, nor can they prepare themselves for an alligator attack on a member of their family. They can ONLY keep themselves and their children entirely away from the shore, since there's really no way to get yourself or your child out of an alligator's grip. That's where Disney screwed up.

These attacks may not happen very often, but when they do they are horrific and mostly fatal. That lagoon had at least five alligators in it and Disney thought nothing of letting people and small children hang around on the shore? Even after a number of Canadian tourists reported that an alligator lunged at them and their children? No, no, no. At the very least there should have been specific signs telling parents to keep their children 50 feet away from the water because there were alligators present, and alligators like to eat small mammals. Unless you give people plain and specific information that allows them to assess risk, you can hardly blame them for not knowing the risk. A "no swimming" sign does NOT give people ANY information that allowed them to correctly assess the danger that was present in that lagoon.