Awful. At least they can bury their son instead of an empty casket and knowing that he became gator poop. I cannot imagine the horror at losing a tug-of-war with a predator for my own son who wasn’t even old enough to go to kindergarten, while my wife and his older sister watched.
According to at least one news site where a Disney staff commented anonymously, there were problems with idiot tourists feeding the gators, which doesn’t surprise me one bit and probably contributed to this. Only signs up around the area said “no swimming” which while people kind of should know this beforehand, it does NOT automatically mean “here be gators”.
One comment from Disney is that trying to keep gators from entering the property is ‘futile’...bullshit...if we could get the PETA idiots out of the way and let them SHOOT marauding gators. But the most they can do is put up signs and (hopefully after this) guard fences.
I say let PETA go in the lagoons and talk nice to the gators.