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Showing Original Post only (View all)Last year, this man specifically warned Disney about alligators after his son [View all]
was wading in a lagoon and he saw an alligator heading for the boy.
In April of 2015, San Diego lawyer David Hiden took his family to the theme park. His five-year-old son waded calf-deep into a lagoon behind their hotel.
"I saw something rapidly coming on like a submarine," Hiden told CBS News. "And I look and I went, 'Oh my god. That's an alligator.' And it was probably about six to seven feet."
Hiden grabbed his son to safety -- and spotted a second alligator lurking nearby.
The family was staying at Disney World's Coronado Springs Resort, which is three-and-a-half miles from the Grand Floridian Resort and Spa, where two year-old Lane was killed.
But a year earlier, Hiden says he warned a hotel manager, and even showed her a photo he took of one of the gators.
"And the response, I couldn't believe it," Hiden said. "It was, 'Those are resident pets, and we've known about them for years. And they're harmless, they're not going to attack anybody."
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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/lane-graves-disney-warned-about-alligator-attacks-before-boys-death/