An alligator's snack at Disney

[Thumpalumpacus]

Snakes, alligators, rats, giardia, whatever.  Babies don't belong in ponds.  I wouldn't even wade in a pond for crying out loud.

We don't have 'gators down here in Hill Country, but we have plenty of water moccasins. In any natural body of water you will have wild animals.

My understanding, which may well be wrong, is that the father was wading with the child. Stupid, sure -- alligators strike from below, and do a spin-and-retreat in order to drown mammalian prey.

Ignoring the signs forbidding swimming was stupid. The father will have the rest of his life to repent his own error.

I'm glad I'm not him.