News Alligator

[Virtues]

They did find the child at about 1:45 eastern time this afternoon.

I'm on the road in Tampa, and didn't get the story. Did they find and remove the gator too?

 

[The Albatross]

Last I heard they had trapped and killed four but had yet to find the one they thought snatched the boy... I can only surmise that how they're doing that is slitting open their stomachs however it's just a guess. They were still combing the lake when I was leaving the house this afternoon.

At least there is closure, it is though very rare that this would occur. More likely to be struck by lightening, but of course that's of little value to the family.

 

[Justmehere]

The death of a child is death out of order. So tragic.

 

[Heather]

This is so sad. My heart aches for that child's parents. Especially the dad who tried to wrestle the child away from the alligator but he couldn't keep his grip.

 

[Friday]

Last Paragraph First : Don't worry,.. The longer your kid survives the more inured you will get to tales of childhood tragedy hitting you in the feels in a way they never hit you before you were a parent. Also blood, screaming, head bonks on hard surfaces, fevers, and tears. :D There's a lot of all of those in your future, and the first round of them is icewater for blood and racking sobs terrifying. No one believes they don't understand parental-fears -and wont- until they have kids... Until they have kids. Most of this, maybe 90%, are actual parental fears gutting you. The other 10% is the cognitive dissonance as "I thought I understood" is getting rapidly replaced with OMFG :eek: I didn't understand. It's very very normal. The world just became a place that can eat your kid. And you're also still probably in the process of deciding/realizing that you'd walk out into traffic to prevent that. It's a major mindf*ck, as everything you thought you knew... Changes.