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”
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SoCoRuss · June 14, 2025 at 11:24 am
Won’t work unfortunately, Banning some one in this country for being stupid and irresponsible would mean 80% of the population would need to be removed:)’
Now that I think of it, that sounds pretty good.
Divemedic · June 14, 2025 at 1:04 pm
Nature takes care of that. The penalty is death, sentence is automatically applied, and frequently can’t be appealed.
Grumpy51 · June 14, 2025 at 3:20 pm
I flew a black male with gunshot wounds to the local Trauma Center. My pilot commented on how patient had been flown about a month earlier (same program, different crew). I asked the patient about it as we rolled the stretcher to the ER, “yeah, bout a month ago, got shot in my leg.”
In the ER, I’m giving report to the trauma resident and asked him if he believed in Darwinism. Resident just looked at me, it was 0200….. I asked him again, “It’s a simple question, do you believe in Darwinism??” “Well yeah” he replied…… I just smiled and replied, “so why are you defeating it??” He gave me the starngest look. When I walked out, and down the hall, I looked back – he was still looking at me strangely……early 90s
JimmyPx · June 14, 2025 at 11:59 am
It isn’t just Florida, go to the Grand Canyon sometime and see how stupid tourists act.
People nonchalantly dangling their legs on the edge and there is no railing or anything.
They slip and they are dead. It’s kept quiet but they lose over a dozen tourists a year there almost all because people are stupid.
Jay · June 14, 2025 at 4:10 pm
Tourists dying at the Grand Canyon is not hushed up. Canyon deaths are written up in all the local papers (usually front page). The book “Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon” is displayed prominently in most stores and visitor centers in Northern Arizona. Falls from the edge only happen a few times during given summer. The locals are more worried about dumb tourists starting forest fires…
Anonymous · June 14, 2025 at 12:48 pm
We get the same in Colorado. People think nature is like Tv, nice and cuddlee. Tell that to the moose on the trail that stomps you where you are walking your dog or the mountain lion that just ran off with the 5-year-old you allowed to wander on a nature hike. Stupid is not geographically limited.
It's just Boris · June 14, 2025 at 2:49 pm
Or the idiots who visit Yellowstone and try to pet the fluffy cows. (I wish I were kidding. The worst I saw was a man walking out into the field towards a buffalo a little apart from the herd, with his maybe 2-year-old kid in tow, wife following along trying to push the stroller through the field. I suspect he wanted to plant the kid on top of the buffalo. We were leaving and I didn’t see the aftermath, just that buffalo had started “noticing” his approach.)
A lot of it is thanks to Disney’s cute-ification of the animal kingdom.
Aesop · June 14, 2025 at 1:35 pm
Every single episode of Rescue 911, every NTSB report, every Coast Guard After Action Report, every Search and Rescue Report:
Intractable Forces Of Nature + Human Stupidity = Melodrama, and Darwinian Selection In Action
Chutes Magoo · June 14, 2025 at 2:34 pm
That shit seems to be ubiquitous, and I think the culprit is attention deficit onset by smartphones and the vast array of pharmaceutical cocktails which pervade society today.
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