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About 5 years ago, during the worst week in Orlando history (including the Pulse Massacre, and the murder of Christina Grimmy), a toddler was snatched and killed by an alligator at Disney's most exclusive hotel. Disney had a fake beach on their grounds, with an inviting sandy beach leading into a lake, and the kid was sitting it in the shallow water, playing. Disney KNEW there were gators in the water, but they didn't want to darken anyone's idea of it being anything but sunny and fun, so they didn't restrict access to the water, or even put up signs warning of the MANY gators in the water. The resulting scenario was so predictable, that the only thing shocking about it was that it hadn't happened much earlier.
It should have been one of the biggest lawsuits on history, but in a VERY short time, it was announced that they had come to a settlement with the toddler's family.
We don't know what they got, but Disney must have offered them a ridiculous amount to keep that from going to a public trial, so much that even the victims own lawyers said, "There's no way you'll get more at trial. Take it."
I really don't like the idea of a out of court settlement.
So, you do some criminal shit but then if you have enough money, and the other side agrees to settle, you get off scott-free? No crime happened? Wtf?
That's an easy way to twist the crime statistics too. So, justice is like playing some board game?
If it were criminal there would be a prosecutor and the state would be charging Disney. Sounds like it was a civil suit seeking damages - which they got.
I would agree with you if there was a criminal element to it, but Disney wasn't determined by the police to have done anything criminal, just negligent. So that goes to Civil Court, where it's only about money.
Civil and criminal are 2 entirely separate processes.
Holy fuck, I never realized all of that happened within a single week.
And near the end of the week, the first case of Zika virus was found in Florida, which they thought might turn into a major thing (it didn't).
I owned an ice cream store at the time, and it couldn't have been timed worse. It happened in the very week when the summer tourism boom takes off each year, and cranks for the rest of the summer. It's when a business like mine makes the biggest profit of the year, and it just...never happened.
By the end of the week, all my customers in the hotel business were saying that EVERY phone call was a cancellation, and their companies were telling them to lie, and say that everything was going great.
By the end of the season, my summer increase never happened. It was Orlando's year without a summer.
that's 100% an attractive nuisance and 100% on disney