Every year, we get a tourist family that comes to Florida with a small child, doesn’t supervise that child, the child gets hurt or killed, then the tourist blames someone else for the fact that they weren’t watching their child. Like this woman who is blaming the resort after she let her 5 year autistic child wander off before he drowned in a pond.
Tourists die when they drown in a pond, lake, or ocean. Sometimes it’s because of rip currents. They are killed when crossing the road in traffic without being in the crosswalk. They catch rattlesnakes barehanded and get bit. They get attacked by alligators while swimming in a lake that is plainly posted with no swimming signs, then sue the property owner for not putting up a fence.
People come here thinking that the entire state is a theme park where they do not have to take any common sense measures to ensure their own safety, instead blaming others for not looking out for them.
Don’t come here, especially if you are stupid and irresponsible. Stupidity should hurt, and it does. In fact, stupidity is oftentimes a capital offense against nature, for which the penalty is death.
I make my living through the stupid decisions of others. Just last week, I had a patient pick up a rattlesnake by the tail just before it flipped around and sunk its fangs into his arm. Dumbass. Maybe there should be a sign that says “Don’t play with snakes”




