OMG, what is that floating in the POOL?!!!

[Xesh]

Yick... well, this is a second-hand story...

Supposedly, one day at a public pool, some child puked in the water near the corner of the pool. The staff just roped off the spoiled area, as the vomit was just floating at the surface, and left it there. Other children, absolutely fascinated, swam up as close as they could to the ropes...

The fecal-matter-in-the-pool is so much worse in a public pool because somebody, usually of importance, has to announce to everybody there that there is fecal matter in the pool. Can you imagine your boss doing that? (I have friends who work at the local pool)

 

[Elita1]

Actually, Xesh, people going in the pool is much much more serious.

Children can get critically ill if they ingest the contaminated water and it's a very real possibility of it being fatal in younger children.
Hence my distress this afternoon.

 

[Azraele]

I'm not much of a pool person, preferring the ocean, so here's an ocean story (sorry Elita, I just can't compete, but hopefully you'll find this amusing). I love to boogie board, and, as the beach I frequent (Duck, NC) became more and more popular, it became more and more populated. One sunny summer day on my vacation, I did as I have often done and hit the beach to go boogie boarding. I caught a particularly nice wave. Unfortunately for the kid in front of me, I didn't see him soon enough, as I bowled him over as the wave carried me shoreward. He was ok, though, but it was odd, I felt so bad when it happened.

 

[frizzlefry]

Elita1: that's a pretty good story

I have several stories however. When I was a kid at a community pond, some kid let one go in the shallow end. This big old turd was just sitting at the bottom. The mom of the kid, just went in, barehanded and picked it out! eewwww!!! :disgust:

Fast forward a bit. We have a pool at my house (don't live there any more, its a rental now). And we also have a bit of brush and some pine trees (I hate needles). At night you can hear the rustling of the ivy from all the little critters. So here's what I have found in the pool

1) fetal newborn rat (still pink with eyes closed) drowned in the trap
2) squirrel (small) swimming as hard as it could and eventually I hepled him out
3) regurgitated rat from a local owl floating in the pool (ugh!)
4) dead rat dropped in pool by squirrel (they never do get along back there) bitten and chewed
5) another dead rat compliments of the squirrlels but had maggots *barf*

Needless to say, I no longer wanted to clean that pool. We have a pool guy come around every week to take care of it.

 

[Azraele]

Eeeeek! DP.

 

[Elita1]

Oh, you're right, Azraele, that can be quite the scare.

 

[AnimeKnight]

Elita1
I did exactly what your daughter did.. only I was 6, right after lunch, and in a public pool where you have to pay to go in and swim...
I remembered it cuz they had to call my grand father to pick me up.. and I got punished big time for that and not to mention couple weeks later the place was shut down.. I dont' know the reason.. but I am sure my incident didnt help

 

[HansHurt]

Mama? towel? hehehe...cute


I've done pool maintenance for years, as soon as we see a log floating(snicker alert!..code brown!), we shut the pool down for 12 hours to "flush" and dose up on chlorine(super chlorinate). Don't forget the Sodium Hypochlorite/bleach to disenfect the skimmer etc.

 

[Crabapple]

<< Yuck, Yuck and did I mention Yuck!!! Poop and decomposing animals---Ewwwwww! >>



Dont make me show you german movies.

 

[MrCodeDude]

To answer the topic question, it's poopy
And, yeah, my parents run a community pool and kids have pooped in it.. We then bill the parents like a $300 bill for having to close the pool for the rest of the day so the chlorine can do its job.
-- mrcodedude

 

[IJump]

:disgust:



Yuck.

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

Hmm... I was a lifeguard at a local pool and on several occasions kids pooped in it.

The strange part? The other lifeguards (I always refused to clean it) always just skimmed the water and added a small cup of extra chlorine into the area. They never closed the pool or made anybody get out. *shrug*

 

[HansHurt]

That's just plain wrong KnightBreed...it's supposed to be superchlorinated, and fully recirculated 3-4 times before use. It's the law where I am. People are supposed to be removed right away.

 

[Valhalla1]

big deal, your kid sh!t in the pool.. happens all the time, if you have it chlorinated properly its no big deal, you were probably over dramatic in freaking out to disinfect your kid or something.

cave people sh!t all over the place. so do animals. people eat the crap in srange German shizen freaky sex videos (At least according to south park on comedy central. :Q)


jeez.. people these days

 

[Soybomb]

<< jeez.. people these days >>


I think many of us say that each time we read your posts.

 

[LordMaul]

Well, I was about 8 or so, and was in a hotel pool. I couldn't really swin, but I had seen my mother floating on her back...so I asked how to do so, of course.

Well, she tried to teach me, and tried, but I just couldn't get the hang of it. So I waddled off as best as I could, with all sorts of people in the pool.

Well, I decided to try without her helping.

It didn't turn out so good.

I tried to float, started to sink, and went under....but then I caught myself and went back up...with some water that had gone up my nose. I promptly puked right in the pool with all those people...

Gawd, it was funny.

 

[jamesave]

This is my story..

When I was a kid - about 12 years ago - I play with my cousins on the pool. Try to do the sumersault (sp?) from the edge into the pool. But next summersault is backward. Guess what. My head banged into the edge of the pool, and I got couple stitches on my head!

Still have the mark on my head until now luckily I am not bald- so my hear is covering the stitches.

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

HansHurt, don't yell at me. It wasn't my decision to keep the pool open.

 

[HansHurt]

LOL, I WASN'T YELLING!!! I just meant that the practice was wrong..not that you were wrong


Besides you are just a dumbass lifeguard how would you know what to do anyway

 

[Geekbabe]

Elita,

This can't compare to your &quot;Floating logs&quot; story(you poor thing,yuck !) but it is funny now

Years ago when my eldest daughter was about 3 we were living in a rather ritzy section of Boston, she and her 6 yr old cousin had gone into our fenced backyard to play, I was doing the breakfast dishes and looking out at the kids from the large window over the sink

Beautiful early summer day, blue jays perched on the feeder,roses starting to bloom... my daughter with her pants down,squatting, taking a full number 2... and my niece on her hands and knees watching like she was the returns clerk at
Bloomingdale's !!! LOL, it must have taken me a full minute to register what I was seeing (she had been fully toliet trained
for quite awhile)

Neeedless to say the neighorhood busy body also saw this
and promptly called every mother in the neighborhood, a
little number 2 (which I cleaned up fast) rapidly became the equivilent of me running a sewage treatment plant by time the gossips were done


Kids..

 

[Anaconda]

i saw a dead rat floating near the filter, *shudders* eeeeew

 

[kami]

You guys have some nastyass stories. The worst I've seen is dead toads floating. LOL

 

[bernie48]

We had a pool party for middle schoolers and to end the evening, we decided to put little minature tootsie rolls in the pool...what a great way to clear out the pool, but bad way to clean the pool. We still talk about it though.

 

[Dually]

Theme of the posts;

&quot;To my horror my pool which I have never taken care of right cause I am a lazy idiot has a problem. It turns out to my amazement that my outdoor pool that I have forgotten to take care of has interacted with nature. OMG I said and I rushed to clean the pool which I never have done and have no idea how to do thereby spilling the parts of the animal all over the pool. I had to hire a professional pool company&quot;

or

&quot;I was amazed to find that my kid had gone to the bathroom in the pool. I though for a second that maybe if I had properly potty trained my kid it wouldn't happen, but that is too much work. I didn't know what to do. So I quickly cleaned my kid with all kinds of chemicals to prevent backeria from getting her sick. I then jsut skimmed for a whiel the &quot;Stuff&quot; away and added lots of chemicals and that was that.&quot;

1)You have to empty the entire pool and clean it.
2)You kid can't get sick from their own poop, hello where did the bacteria in the poop come from, her. Only if left inf or a long time.

 

[falias]

This is not really gross but more of a scary story. During a public swim a kid slipped of the high dive and fell to the concrete. There was all this blood on the poll deck and an ambulence came to take the kid and he survived from the fall. I was pretty shaken up from that. My brother was a lifeguard there and they had to clean up the blood. It was really messed up.