Another one of life's little mysteries

This ought to be amended to include the phrase, "and it's incredibly stupid too!"

This was a magnet on the refrigerator in our condo at Kiawah Island. KI is 20 miles south of Charleston so there are alligators in nearly every body of fresh water larger than a bathtub. This place is positively crawling with them. In the lagoon (pond) outside our condo there is one named Wally (my wife named him and when we inquired if he already had a name the naturalists at the Nature Center said as far as they knew he did not so he is now officially "Wally-gator"). Wally is about 8 feet long and pretty much lord of the pond. When he swims under the foot bridge, he looks up at you with a malevolent stare as if to say, "if you fall in, you're lunch!" All around the island are these signs which state the same as the magnet.

DON'T FEED THE ALLIGATORS!
DON'T HARASS THE ALLIGATORS!
DON'T SWIM IN THEIR PONDS!

You know they have to post these because,

PEOPLE HAVE DONE SO!

I mean, come on, how stupid would you have to be to harass an 8 foot long carnivorous lizard? They aren't smart enough to be afraid of humans and when they get that big the become pretty bold. I am told that they really don't have any natural enemies other than bigger alligators and haven't evolved that much in millions of years.
From what the guide at the nature center said, they can out run a human for about 20 yards but only in a straight line as they aren't really build for turns out of water (so that old saw about "serpentine, serpentine!" makes sense if they are chasing you.) When one crosses paths with people, the Fish and Wildlife guys have to come out and move them to uninhabited areas which these days are getting harder and harder to find. If they actually attack a human they are usually destroyed as they cannot take the chance that Wally or Wilma or whomever might actually acquire a taste for human flesh.

It seems that perhaps a better solution would be to post a sign that says:

SWIM AT OWN RISK.
HARASS ALLIGATORS AT OWN RISK.

POND CONTAINS HUNGRY 8 FOOT LONG
CARNIVOUOUS LIZARD WHO WOULD LOVE TO
BITE YOUR SILLY ASS AND CARRY YOU UNDER
THE WATER TO FINISH OFF LATER.

IF YOU GOLFERS GO AND GET DRUNK AT THE
19TH HOLE AND THINK YOU CAN OUTSWIM WALLY
FEEL FREE TO TRY.
WE AREN'T ABOUT TO SAVE YOU IF YOU DO.

THAT LAUGHING YOU WILL HEAR AS HE PULLS YOU UNDER
WILL BE US ON THE SHORE AS WE CHALK UP ANOTHER ONE
TO DARWINEAN EVOLUTION WHILE YOU REMOVE YOURSELF
FROM THE GENE POOL!