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Originally Posted by Maker
What happens because of other animals and insects is not relevant to alligators. If you have a problem with those, start a thread about them.
In accident investigations, when there are "near misses" that have happened, it is a leading indicator that something worse is likely to happen in the future unless corrective action is taken now. I'm sure the neighbors around the 95y woman that got killed also said it would never happen. Then it did happen. I don't buy into the "it will never happen" concept, when it already has happened. We have the choice to make things safer, or wait for another incident.
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The woman was 85 according to reports, not 95. Details matter.
OK, you don't want to talk about the absence of alligator deaths in the Villages, so how about some reports of near misses in the Villages? List a few of those near misses, and make sure they didn't happen when someone wandered OFF the pathway and towards the water's edge.
In the one interview I heard with a neighbor of the 85yo, the neighbor couldn't understand why the woman would walk her dog near the water like that. I didn't hear anyone say it would never happen. But if you did, please post a link.
"Another incident?" In the Villages it will be the FIRST incident.
It WILL happen again. Someone WILL choose to go into or near alligator-infested waters and the alligator will do what alligators do. it will have been 100% avoidable if the HUMAN had made a different choice.
Put some thought into it and be honest: You want to kill the alligators because of your irrational fear of them.