This is a very sad situation. http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/15/us/alligator-attacks-child-disney-florida/index.html
Florida, if you live in or visit here you have to be concerned about alligators. In conjunction with the event a Disney Employee who did not give his named was saying that the guests were feeding the alligators, not a prudent move. If there are signs posted that alligators inhabit a body of water pay attention, ditto signs that state no swimming. Alligators can pose in water for long periods of time and when a person or animal gets close they'll be on you like white on rice. I used to work at Disney, lots of interconnecting lakes, and ponds which can be home to those creatures. Feel bad for the family and respect the bravery of the dad who tried to rescue his child. I enjoyed my years in Orlando but it has had its soul rocked in the bosom of Abraham lately.
OMG- horrible news, very sad sorry for Her Parents, shit...! I heard a girl who was on the TV Show "The Voice" was shot the day or so prior to the mass shooting, but blocks away; by a lone gun man, who turned his gun on himself, and took his own life, after killing the girl-vocalist While living in Luzianna, I had a huge fear of Gators. Had several "Noodler Fishing"*** friends, who were born n bred, lived all their lives in the Bayou's, and had NO FEAR of Gator's. The bottom line I've been told, for ADULTS, (doesn't pertain to kids too often): is- You are in deep shit, if you are close or near to a Gator's Den of Eggs. We watched a 14 foot Female Gator protect her Den with a vengeance. Tossing a rock in the water 15 feet from Her; was enough to make her leave Her nest, to patrol the waters for intruders... However, I've seen plenty of guys "Noodler's" who had no Fear of Gator's, and were never bothered, not even approached by Gator's in close proximity. Basically, as an adult if you leave them alone, they leave you alone, but not always, nothing is definitive with these pre-historic predators.... *** Noodler or Noodling-Fishing: Usually a 2 man task, involving diving under the murky mud red waters, feeling in log openings, or near rocks, for a Big Catfish. Most of the Noodler's I have met, were missing fingers. All were either bitten by a Water Moccasins ie Cotton Mouth, or bit by a Snapping Turtle, in which they lost them finger's...now that's finger licking good.... very sorry to hear about this little girl, and her parents must be beyond repair, or consolations. Damn it...! Don't go near the water. Altho' most of this is fact, I met another Man, who was reaching down into the water to pull in his fishing line of already caught fish, on his stringer hanging alongside his boat, in Fla.'s Lake Okeechobee; when a Gator lunged up, and took his arm off at the Elbow. The fish on the line had already been eaten by the Gator as well... Me, I am not so brave around Gator's regardless...
Back in '64 my dad got a job at the Kennedy Space Center and the family settled in Merritt Island. I came down for a visit prior to departing on a trip across the pond. Back then Merritt Island was "typical Florida Wild. A guy who lived in the apartment complex was on a back road, saw a gator sunning itself and decides to nudge it with his VW Bug. Big mistake, before taking off the gator did some work one of the cars fender bumper and headlight. I saw it after the fact and decided that gators were nothing to mess with. I also met people who poached them, bad gig in Florida at the time and I think even now they are still somewhat protected. Snakes, yep, got them two, and most residential areas have laws on keeping grass cut, if the resident fails to do so the county will at a price. Florida is a nice place to live but it does have its "creatures" and we haven't even mentioned the sharks, Rays, Barracuda and spiders.
...^^^ KSC, what a Gig in 64, back then as a kid, I thought I was in Heaven getting mail from the NASA Fan Club, (which I have to this day), ie books on Mercury, Gemini and Apollo, with stickers like stamps to put in the book, as events took place in years to come. Never thought I'd wind up at KSC for a short time, before heading back to this Desert to build the OV's.... Shit, fkng F-L-A- Spiders: I hitchhiked from this fkng Desert to St. Augustine, (and many other Fla. cities, beaches, night clubs, et al, from the panhandle to the Keys)... When I got to the beach of Augustine, I laid my sleeping bag out in the dunes & high grass, just 'fore the sun went down. I stretched out, looked overhead, and saw the biggest fkng Spider Web to this day, I have ever saw. An Octagonal 4 foot web (easily), wasn't sure if it were a Banana Spider, tho' it was striped orange and black- more like a Wolf Spider...??? I still to this day don't know wtf it was, but would be able to this day to I.D. it, if I saw another like it....Ya'll have some wild creatures. Hard thing about backpacking, hitchhiking in Fla, many towns would have Trooper's waiting just before we got into their town, and would give us a ride thru the town, to the opposite "outside of town", they just didn't want strange guys walking thru their town, understandable...and quit nice of them, actually... Then, there is the conundrum, with all the swampy briar filled land, no place to sleep. In the pouring blind rain, at 1am we walked Hwy 1 in the dark, then a 2 lane highway, no lights outside of towns. A more often than not event (walking down dark highways). No way to see the growls of gators, or fear of walking on one, or stepping on a Snake in the middle of the warm roads....We slept in churches, out in the boondocks, gas stations after closing, (which were closed), wherever we could find a dry place to land. Used a U-Haul abandoned trailer for 2 days, that was NOT abandoned. One night under these conditions, we saw a faint light a mile ahead, stopped when we got there, got two quarts of Bud, some Cheez-its, and Pork-n-beans, a traveler's smorgasbord. Once we left that little market out in the middle of nowhere, we found a small white church a mile or 2 down the dark road; that looked like it glowed in the dark. Found its doors open, turned on the Organ, while my buddy played his Dreadnaught Martin, and drank, played music til sunrise....those were the daze. Two big lessons learned, #1 never leave home without your own set of wheels. Prior to that trip, I sold a 69 Fastback Mustang (Hi-Performance [1,000 built] 2 each 4 barrell Hollie Carbs, with shitloads of electric fuel pumps, not counting its main tank pump.). Sold a Honda 750/4, I wish to this day I still had both... #2- the thing I was out in the wild looking for, from State to State; was that ground right under My feet, back home, in Ca.
Departed from Merritt Island April 64, came back in '67, damn Suburbia had taken over but the "Humpback Bridge" where locals fished from on the Island was still there with the road portion in better repair. Before "civilization" came I remember people driving around the Island with six packs drinking as they drove. Times sure have changed. Bought my first car in Cocoa, did a bit of cruising there before heading to Massachusetts.
...not only that, the system failed. This guy was allowed to legally purchase weapons when he should not have been ...so much for background checks. But Obama and the libtards want even more of the same government run "screening" that has already proven to be a failure....yeah, that's the ticket, pass yet another bill and let's just throw money at a situation that's actually a cultural problem.
If 5% of the population carries concealed (even just active/retired LEO and military) then statistically this fucker would have been facing up to 15 guns. Guarantee this type of attack goes away. More likely to get suicide bombings. But that would be OK because based on current logic We'd have libtards calling for national topless in public laws.
One reason I love the cities of: Santa Clarita/Valencia, Ca. With over 8,500 LASD, and another 9,000 LAPD, its home of most Cops, off duty or not. No matter where one goes, one is surrounded by off duty cops, packing heat always. Little to no crime.... I admire several small towns in Georgia, where its legal to carry a gun without a CWP. When one moves to such towns, and opens a Bank Account, they get a FREE: Pistol of several choices, a Deer Rifle, or a Shotgun, no AR-15's thus far....plus some towns have other multitudes of ways to get a FREE gun in those towns of ZERO Crime....Hat's off to those who have it right-
