What Do You Think Of This?

[piggynose]

[Cloverjo]

I feel sorry for the alligator. The poor thing isn't built to carry humans.
It's really stupid to bring a supposedly wild animal like that into that environment.
Not much of a party, though. Where were the other kids?

[Mothman]

Lunacy.

As for the other kids - I imagine their parents saw the handbag-on-legs and suddenly remembered a prior engagement. And I don't blame them.

[andy-hughes]

Dangerous abuse of a dangerous animal.

At best it teaches children a lack of respect for dumb animals, at worst it risks the child losing a limb, or her life.

[anneasquith]

Some parents are idiots.

[Islay]

Very stupid and should something have gone wrong then you can be sure that the parents would have screamed blue murder at the innocent crocodile!

[pastafreak]

Looking at Google images,it would seem there is nothing new about this. Seems both dangerous and cruel to me. Apparently this was to promote conservation.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=child+riding+an+alligator&;client=tablet-android-samsung&source=lnms&prmd=ivsn&tbm=isch&;sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj77srA7JbSAhXjCcAKHTu_Dx0Q_AUIBygB&biw=768&bih=1024

[andy-hughes]

What the parents either don't know, or simply think won't happen, is that these animals can go from stillness to violent attack in a nano-second, and it could be all over before they even realise anything is wrong.

[pastafreak]

// The controversial footage, which was allegedly shot during one of Jim Nesci’s Cold Blooded Creatures' events, which promote ‘conservation through education’, has started to go viral //

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-4094924/What-possibly-wrong-Shocking-video-young-child-riding-8ft-ALLIGATOR-sweeps-internet.html#ixzz4Yw1YaRaB
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[andy-hughes]

Pastafreak - maybe the 'education' could include - 'These animals are dangerous and unpredictable, and can cause death or serious injury in seconds. They should not be approached or touched by members of the public'.

[pastafreak]

andy...there doesn't seem to be any evidence of that in the video. Worrying to say the least.

[jakep]

Cruel exploitation of an animal.
The potential for serious injury to the humans should not be underestimated.

[mikey4444]

Stupid in the extreme !

[hereIam]

Poor bloody thing, typical humans exploiting animals AGAIN !! I bet it's sedated.

[tamborine]

Parents need locking up