I often try to even up the change numbers to avoid getting small change - but I generally have a habit of explaining it to the cashier - ie: Let me give you 4 cents so I can get a quarter back. No undue burden to the employee if their register doesn't allow them to type in the total received.
As for the robbery - there are lots of little areas where it would be easy to enter and leave the water outside of camera views - late at night, when boats aren't running, and with a delay for the employees to make notification - plus the assumption that the robber would be on foot meaning they'd be searching Disney Springs area first - he'd have enough time to get over to Saratoga Springs - there's a little canal next to Congress Park Building 4 and the golf course parking lot right on the water - there's the possibility of using the West End parking lot before they figured out the water escape and might not have locked down that area yet - and there's all along the canal to OKW/Port Orleans which is either back of golf course or wooded area. Plenty of places to get out, walk through the wooded areas, or the resort grounds, or golf course, to a waiting car. Pretty low camera usage in those wooded and golf course areas.
And the poisonous snakes & gators warning is quite overblown at Disney - more of a legal move after the Grand Floridian alligator incident - Disney actively removes gators so there aren't that many on property - the ones that do get in are usually pretty small as they often come through drainage pipes. We do have poisonous snakes in Florida, though the only ones to really worry about in water would be moccasins and they're not super common - probably 1 in 500 water snakes you come across in FL will be a moccasin, the rest non-poisonous brown or banded water snakes.
And gators are not aggressive animals (unlike crocodiles) - in general they'll avoid people unless extremely hungry, injured, or the person does something inadvisable. Surprisingly, swimming past a gator underwater would draw far less attention from a gator - a person's size, and the fact that they're underwater swimming, would make them generally not viewed as a potential food source. Almost all alligator attacks on people have been drought starved animals desperate for food, mothers defending their nests, people doing irretrievably stupid things like jumping in dark water at night and landing on top of a gator, small children playing or swimming in water far enough from other people to present an opportunity, standing/sitting in or by water a long time being inattentive. Usually, it's a bite and not fatal. There have been 2 fatalities in 2025 - one a woman in Florida canoeing who ran over a large alligator in very shallow water getting knocked into the water then attacked, and the other a young boy in Louisiana unknown how attacked. No fatalities in 2024. In 2023, a homeless woman in FL trespassing/living in a wetlands area was killed, and two woman in SC and FL walking dogs (a natural alligator magnet) who tried to step in to save the dogs. I've lived around gators most of my life, even had them in my pool...most try to run or swim away if I get close.
And I wouldn't put this guy in the Florida Man category - most Florida men are not successful in their endeavors, which is how they become viral! This guy, at least for now, actually made a decent plan and got away with it!
