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Posted by Matthew Bailey (Member # 601) on 08-28-2003, 09:59 PM:

Has there been an incident that closed your area swimming pool?
Just now, one incident at my area YMCA swimming pool almost did!
Apparently-excuse me for getting too grotesque here-someone -not me-barfed in the pool which vacated it for about 30 minutes.
Never allow any Film Guard drinking people in a swimming pool!
[Big Grin]

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 08-28-2003, 11:38 PM:

I don't know of many incidents that have forced pools to close, other than insurance liability policies becoming too expensive to carry.

My chief complaint with most swimming pools: no diving boards.

We can thank lawyers for that. You see, in typical American fashion, when someone tries a stupid stunt and splits open his head on the diving board it is never his fault! Blame it on the person who owns/operates the pool. If a kid climbs your fence in the middle of the night to go pool-hopping and drowns, it's never the kid's fault. Blame it on the home owner.

I suppose one can make the reach that America, having over 70% of the attorneys on this planet, have collectively given the signal that dumbasses are not responsible for the stupid shit they do. Just sue someone else nearby who has some cash. This kind of gives way to the whole "blame it all on something else; it's not my fault I screwed up in my life" nonsense.

Stupid people make life difficult.

Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 08-28-2003, 11:53 PM:

One of the YMCA pools up here in the NW part of town gets closed down about every other week or so due to... no way to put this delicately... kids' poop. Anytime the floating dooey count exceeds zero, the health department says the pool must be vacated for 24 hours and the bacteria count monitored. [puke]

I used to swim at the other, older Y but gave up the membership there because it was too expensive (as much or more than any of the athletic clubs here). Nowadays I swim laps at either the main city or county pools--haven't had a dooey encounter at either one yet. [uhoh]

Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 08-29-2003, 01:45 AM:

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I used to swim at the other, older Y but gave up the membership there because it was too expensive

I finally abandoned the nice big indoor pool at the Y for a sports club w/pool because the Y was scheduling more & more of those aggravating water aerobics sessions through the day.

You'd be enjoying a swim, then a boombox would blare out some incredibly brain-damaged oldies re-worked into disco versions in the manner of Sweatin' to the Oldies, the lady who is the sort of water aerobics DI would start yelling to the GERIATRIC ADULTS in that Romper Room story telling lady voice for children, all the people swimming in the other lanes would haul out at the end of the end of the lap to flee. The swimmers bolting from the water en masse looked like a human jubilee.

Posted by Kenneth Wuepper (Member # 1174) on 08-29-2003, 03:01 PM:

While staying in a motel in PA, the swimming pool was closed indefinitely. This was one of the indoor/outdoor pools with a tunnel under the plate glass window.

It appears that one of the drunken guests, when asked to leave the area, picked up a chair and threw it through the window to the outside pool. Lots of nasty glass shards on the bottom. (Very invisible to the eye but not good on the feet)

Posted by Don Bruechert (Member # 1538) on 08-30-2003, 01:51 PM:

This was the last season for our city pool, which has operated since I believe 1968. The excuse given was it was leaking in excess of 20,000 gallons of water a day and it was cost prohibitive to keep it running or repair it. Now that's a lot of water, and it just amazes me where all that water is supposed to be going... Hell... the whole city would be floating by now! They are talking about "possbily" replacing it with some kind of water park thing.

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-30-2003, 05:21 PM:

When I was a kid we were in the Harvey park swimming pool and we were all evacuated because a kid almost drown. Turned out later he died in the hospital (as I saw on the news).