Alligator Roams MK Parking Lot

[MagicMike]

Earlier this afternoon, an alligator was spotted roaming freely along a sidewalk in the MK parking lot area, adjacent to the TTC.

Disney just removed the gator because he didn't have the $14 required to park.

 

[Vader2112]

He is Guffy the New Disney Gator...Visit him at EPCOTand collect the Vinylmation of him NOW!!

 

[fractal]

This is what I was thinking. Unless people plan on walking up to it and petting it, there's nothing to worry about. Their 40 yard dash times are very unimpressive.....

Yeah, but it's the 10-20 yard dash that you need to worry about. If you are real close to a gator and it catches you flat footed - you may end up short an appendage ( or worse ).

 

[draybook]

Yeah, but it's the 10-20 yard dash that you need to worry about. If you are real close to a gator and it catches you flat footed - you may end up short an appendage ( or worse ).

True, but if you don't notice a gator that close in a parking lot then you already had other troubles to begin with.

 

[Gatorboy]

This is what I was thinking. Unless people plan on walking up to it and petting it, there's nothing to worry about. Their 40 yard dash times are very unimpressive.....

They are alot faster thatn you think. Have been known to run down dogs!

 

[draybook]

They are alot faster thatn you think. Have been known to run down dogs!

http://www.enature.com/expert/expert_show_question.asp?questionID=14232



Top speed around 10-15 mph, based on size of the gator. Regardless, if you're close enough for that to make a difference, then you weren't paying attention anyways.

 

[Timon]

HA those are all out-of-state gators.
Here's a Florida Gator.

 

[_Scar]

They scare me quite a lot. Such pests and they're so abundant in Florida...

 

[Nemo14]

What's unnerving about the TTC gator is that, being in the middle of the sidewalk adjacent to concrete walls, it obviously had to walk a little ways to even get there in the first place. It's not like it just surfaced from its natural H2O habitat.

No, silly, he took the tram....

 

[EpcoTim]

Here I was expecting some huge beast of a thing staring down a Chevy Suburban. Thats a Dog's chew toy. Something a family from Japan spends an hour feeding and taking pictures of cause its so cute.

 

[Timekeeper]

I'm enjoying the humorous replies here

 

[jeff59rt]

They could put them in the jungle cruise, at least something would move then!

 

[Zummi Gummi]

Knowing my luck, I'd get stuck behind him while he tries to do his finger scan!

 

[flavious27]

Lol. Seeing the reactions to this makes me laugh. It's just a gator. Pest Control will relocate him.

Being that we are not use to seeing gators in our neck of the woods, not going to easily brush this off. The inverse can be said of southerners and snow or freezing rain, they are not too use to driving in it like us northerners.

 

[Marco226]

Oh no.. I go water skiing with my family at the Contemporary once a year. Now I'm afraid to get in that water. I'm Floridian, so I'm used to seeig them... but after watching Lake Placid last night, I not too sure I wanna get in that dark, murky lake water anymore

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

Let's go use the Youtube Time Portal to the day a real Gator was in Splash Mountain..

 

[Ex-Floridian]

WOW! Gators ...that is a bit scary.

Ah duh! Its Florida!!! And The World is that Swamp Land from all the jokes our parents and grandparents made....As long as you don't mess with them they don't mess with you.

At one time, there was a law protecting them...endangered and all...but because of that there seems to be an abundance again...

This Ex-FL person who lives in MA now says, "Go Gators!" LOL

 

[Ex-Floridian]

He clearly just wanted to get into the park and have a good time. A gator in the seat behind me on Space Mountain? Sure why not.

Tebow!

 

[mikeymouse]

It's Florida. I would assume any body of water could have some reptiles in it.

 

[MarkTwain]

Git'em Disney! Git that gator!!