ayceejay
Guru
- Location
- Rural Quebec
Louisiana loves cyclists
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glasgowcyclist
Charming but somewhat feckless
- Location
- Scotland
fark that!
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Time to brush up the old bunny-hopping alligator-hopping skills! 
(Joking aside, I have just had a horrible flashback to reports earlier in the week about that toddler being dragged away and killed by an alligator!
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(Joking aside, I have just had a horrible flashback to reports earlier in the week about that toddler being dragged away and killed by an alligator!
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ayceejay
Guru
- Location
- Rural Quebec
Yep that's Disneyworld in Florida Colin I can't believe the home of animated animals would have a real crocodile that a toddler could access.
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
Well, Florida is the home of Alligators and if Disney decide to plonk a theme park there (along with numerous other theme parks, golf courses etc) then that's the risk you run.
I'm in no way belittling the awfulness of what happened but I'm pretty sure that I would not be picnicking on the shoreline of a lagoon that is clearly marked as unsafe for swimming due to being inhabited by Alligators - with or without children present.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
My thoughts too!
winjim
Straddle the line, discord and rhyme
I'm told the land was rather cheap...
jefmcg
Guru
From what I read, the sign said "no swimming". No mention of alligators. And nobody probably saw it until it was too late, moving slowly with only the nostrils above water. There are waterways across the world with "no swimming" signs, that don't have alligators.
Aside 1: They used to entertain tourists in norther Australia by dangling a lump of meat off the back of a tourist boat for a croc to jump out of the water and snatch it. Unsurprisingly a croc did it one day when there was no meat dangling, and took a tourist. Fun fact: they almost always recover the bodies in crocodile attacks. They don't have teeth for grinding or tearing, so they hide the body till it starts to rot and they don't need to chew.
Aside 2: John Oliver: "I will happily embrace a Latin night at a gay club in the theme park of the world – as the ultimate symbol of what is truly wonderful about America.”
Aside 1: They used to entertain tourists in norther Australia by dangling a lump of meat off the back of a tourist boat for a croc to jump out of the water and snatch it. Unsurprisingly a croc did it one day when there was no meat dangling, and took a tourist. Fun fact: they almost always recover the bodies in crocodile attacks. They don't have teeth for grinding or tearing, so they hide the body till it starts to rot and they don't need to chew.
Aside 2: John Oliver: "I will happily embrace a Latin night at a gay club in the theme park of the world – as the ultimate symbol of what is truly wonderful about America.”
