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Originally Posted by carm310
The original comment regarding the kids hanging on the ropes along the boardwalk hit a nerve with me. We have seen small children running, hanging and climbing the ropes and it is frightening. Most often parents and grandparents are around. There have been times where we have shortened a walk along the lake because it is so upsetting to see this, it seems like a tragedy waiting to happen. A fall, a slip and it would be easy for a small child to slip under those ropes.
I personally wish the powers that be would change out the vertical ropes for something safer. I am not sure what that would be and of course I recognize the need to keep the visual atmosphere of the boardwalk in tact. But there has to be a safer alternative.
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I was present on the boardwalk when the gator would surface around 9 p.m. last week. I did hear an adult though saying that this was a mechanical gator. It is quite stupid to make these kind of comments when kids are around as they might want to get close enough to want to check this out for themselves.
The man that said this gator was mechanical was a tourist visiting the Villages with his family.