Bit of a story from the world of Mouse

[Ellf]

Okay, so I'm pretty sure everyone gets where I'm talking about. It practically is its own little city down there too.

This story comes to me second-hand from a friend who works there who heard it from his boss, who was the one who witnessed this.

At the World of Mouse, people are full of wonder and merriment, and the magic sometimes affects their judgement. The World of Mouse is in Florida, and in Florida, we have these lovely things known as alligators.

Sometimes alligators like to get some sun, and at times, they can be found inside some of the parks at World of Mouse. World of Mouse also has photo people, who you can ask to take a picture of you if you want.

I hope you can see where this is going.

A lovely married couple and their two year old child spot one of these sunning alligators, and they get the bright idea that since this is the World of Mouse, it must be a part of the park! Obviously it's safe!

So they go up and place their two year old child on the back of the alligator, thinking that this would be an awesome picture. It's around this time that the photo person arrives and immediately she starts to try to get the parents to get their baby off the back.

Parents: "Don't worry, it's a [World of Mouse] alligator, she'll be fine! Take the picture!"
Photo person: "That is a wild animal, get the kid off its back before they get hurt!"
Parents: "Take the picture!"

So, this exchange escalates slightly and the photo person calls her manager to come over. All the while the kid is still on the gator's back.

Eventually the manager manages to convince the parents to get the kid off the back, and by some miracle, the gator decided to ignore it in favor of sunning itself. As I hear, the parents complained that the photo person wouldn't take their kid's picture while the kid was on the gator's back.

[energyguy]

If they want a picture on a gators back so much they can go down the road to Gatorland where they can do so safely.

I'm amazed the aligator didn't attack.

[Ellf]

Typically they're pretty laconic when in sunlight. Gators are night predators, iirc.

[Zaiida]

WHAT THE FU......oh that's right what site am I on. Baby crocs are cute though.

*BSOD- Be back after reboot*

[dalesys]

Classic Yellowstone park story:

Here bear. Hold the baby while we take a picture.

!*#$ Don't eat the baby!

[PepperElf]

apparently they never watched steve irwin wrestling gators and crocs?

hell even steve got slammed when he dangled bindi over them

[Squeaksmyalias]

Reminds me of the farm insurance lesson I had to take when in college. An example was given by the agent who was teaching the lesson, who also worked on a farm years before. Two parents drove down a road along the horse farm she worked at wanting to show their baby the pretty horsies.

They got out of their car, went down the embankment that separated the road from the farm, jumped over TWO fences, both with no trespassing signs. Once on the other side of the fences they put their baby on the back of a foal so they could take pictures of the baby "riding" a horse....Luckily the foal's mother didn't attack them and the baby wasn't dropped or hurt. I guess the parents tried to get the farm into some trouble for kicking them off the property.

[Teskeria]

0. If you want to be really mean, ask how much the kid is insured for.
1. Take the picture
2. call child protective services, inform them the parents refused to remove their child from the back of a wild alligator until a picture was taken of said event.
3. provide picture to cps
4. If very lucky child gets a family that is not trying to kill them.

[Sheldonrs]

"Do you want the picture of the child ON the gator or IN it?"

[siskaren]

The problem is, at the World of Mouse, some people think that all the animals are animatronic. I guess it's a case of being a victim of their own success.

[LillFilly]

I commend the gator on its self control; poor thing would have been put down if it had eaten the kid, and it wasn't the kids fault. Too bad it didn't take a chunk out of the parents and adopt the baby to raise as its own! Rawr, it's Gator Boy!

[Lady_Pigeon]

I must say, I have some questions...

I must know, WHERE did this happen? Was it at one of the parks, or at one of the resorts? Details, please! PM me if you have to, I want to know so I can share with my fellow Mouse people! This is EPIC!

[HappyFun Ball]

My jam hit the floor when I read this! I just can't believe how @#$%ing stupid people can be!

[Sheldonrs]

It's probably not a good idea to hold your kid upto the railing when there's a gator right below you either:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ27l...=1&safe=active

[dalesys]

It's probably not a good idea to hold your kid upto the railing when there's a gator right below you either:

Guess who grows up to be Capt. Hook.