# Fall River public pool (now with human corpse!) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 1, 2011, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fall-river-public-pool-now-with-human-corpse/587545 "2011-07-01T19:30:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2011, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fall-river-public-pool-now-with-human-corpse/587545/61 "2011-07-03T00:36:48Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > 😛 > > I cannot fathom how something like this could happen. O, we are plumbing the depths now. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2011, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fall-river-public-pool-now-with-human-corpse/587545/62 "2011-07-03T01:30:37Z")
I don’t know guys, this isn’t one of those weird Death by Misadventure threads. I think dredging up puns might be in poor taste in this case. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2011, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fall-river-public-pool-now-with-human-corpse/587545/63 "2011-07-03T01:36:42Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > I don’t know guys, this isn’t one of those weird Death by Misadventure threads. I think dredging up puns might be in poor taste in this case. We don’t dredge them up, they just bob to the surface. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2011, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fall-river-public-pool-now-with-human-corpse/587545/64 "2011-07-03T02:09:04Z")
Yes, if you skim the thread you’ll see that’s what happened. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2011, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fall-river-public-pool-now-with-human-corpse/587545/65 "2011-07-03T04:39:05Z")
> [@OtakuLoki](#): > > If you don’t think that’s a real problem with state bureaucracies, you’re doing a damned good imitation of an idiot. Almost as good as Ralph’s. **OtakuLoki** , you’ve been here long enough to know to take it to the Pit if you want to call other posters names. Dial it back, right now. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2011, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fall-river-public-pool-now-with-human-corpse/587545/66 "2011-07-03T11:52:11Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Who gets the salvage rights if they find a sunken galleon or those missing TBM Avengers from '45? Headline: “USS _Voyager_ found in pool, missing 20 years.” Sub-head: “Shrunk to 10% by pollution.” ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2011, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fall-river-public-pool-now-with-human-corpse/587545/67 "2011-07-03T15:23:00Z")
I heard there used to be a pukey smiley… In the meantime, ewwwwwww. ---
**Author:** ![ducati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@ducati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ducati)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2011, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fall-river-public-pool-now-with-human-corpse/587545/68 "2011-07-03T15:51:06Z")
Is it wrong that the ads at the bottom of my page are for swimming lessons? ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2011, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fall-river-public-pool-now-with-human-corpse/587545/69 "2011-07-03T16:47:43Z")
> [@OtakuLoki](#): > > I don’t like Ralph. I agree he failed, completely, to give you any proof of his assertions. > > That doesn’t make his assertion false, however. If you can show me where i ever said that his assertion was false, you’ll have a point. The word used, very specifically and intentionally, was “unsupported.” > [@OtakuLoki](#): > > If you don’t think that’s a real problem with state bureaucracies, you’re doing a damned good imitation of an idiot. Almost as good as Ralph’s. I never made a single observation about state bureaucracies in my post. The inferences you have drawn from my post say more about your skills of observation and interpretation than about my position. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2011, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fall-river-public-pool-now-with-human-corpse/587545/70 "2011-07-04T00:06:27Z")
Is this the same Fall river where Lizzie Borden took an axe? ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2011, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fall-river-public-pool-now-with-human-corpse/587545/71 "2011-07-04T00:25:04Z")
Lizzie Borden took an axe And gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done She gave her father forty-one. Lizzie Borden, poolside guard, Liked her job—it wasn’t hard. Shove the drowned ones way deep down, Stir the cloudy pool around. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2011, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fall-river-public-pool-now-with-human-corpse/587545/72 "2011-07-04T00:29:45Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > Is this the same Fall river where Lizzie Borden took an axe? [Yep.](http://www.justsomelyrics.com/1477941/Chad-Mitchell-Trio-Lizzie-Borden-Lyrics) > [@](#): > > \*Yesterday in old Fall River, Mr. Andrew Borden died, > And they got his daughter Lizzie on a charge of homicide > Some folks say she didn’t do it others say of course she did > But they all agree, Miss Lizzie B. was a problem kinda kid > > 'Cause you can’t chop your papa up in Massachusetts > Not even if it’s planned as a surprise > No, you can’t chop your papa up in Massachusetts > You know how neighbors love to criticize\* ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2011, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fall-river-public-pool-now-with-human-corpse/587545/73 "2011-07-04T00:36:46Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > Yep-there was just a scandal in the state department of escalator/elevator inspections. Seems a five year old fell through a gap, between the wall and an escalator landing, in a shopping mall in Worcester county. > The union admitted that most of the inspectors did not know the regulations regarding this..and that the inspectors had approved this escalator for public use. > So having no competent maintainence of the DCR pools does not surprise me. They have escalators to get into public pools? Gee! I must check that out next time I am south of the border! ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2011, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fall-river-public-pool-now-with-human-corpse/587545/74 "2011-07-04T02:15:39Z")
> [@Canadjun](#): > > They have escalators to get into public pools? Gee! I must check that out next time I am south of the border! It’s because of how murky the pools are. Without the escalator you can’t see where you are going! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2011, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fall-river-public-pool-now-with-human-corpse/587545/75 "2011-07-04T03:43:13Z")
Jeeze - Americans won’t walk _anywhere!_ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2011, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fall-river-public-pool-now-with-human-corpse/587545/76 "2011-07-04T04:37:50Z")
Heh, I’ve lived in Fall River. It’s pretty grim and gritty and socially and economically depressed. The caricature MA cities in movies like The Town aren’t too far off. Government corruption and apathy at it’s finest. Sad, really. (I come from RI where we had a felon as mayor of the capital city so I can throw stones, honest!) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Vorlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2011, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fall-river-public-pool-now-with-human-corpse/587545/77 "2011-07-04T05:30:26Z")
I live in Fall River. I offer the following points: We are still waiting for the bridge over the river to the west to open. The new bridge has been under various states of construction for 35 years. The bridge it is replacing just had it’s weight limit dropped from 9 ton, which was starting to be a issue with rescue vehicles, to 3 ton, which has a issue with Hummers and Suburbans. The previous police chief’s son was busted for smack. City councilor one was busted in his tighty whities trolling for common nightwalkers one fine night. City councilor two was busted by the Staties for running a illegal betting internet parlor. He loudly proclaimed his innocence, stating he had no email address. The head of the city council just had to cough up 93,000 because he took it upon himself to bypass the water meter in his marina. We will not mention the time a few weeks ago he ‘borrowed’ a boat from his marina and took a few friends for a joy ride that ended on the rocks two towns north–after all his buddies in that towns police force saw nothing… Half the three deckers have at lease one vacant unit, and if not for section 8, most would have two. The mayors great plan to turn things around? He wants a casino.:rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Shawn1767](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Shawn1767](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shawn1767)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2011, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fall-river-public-pool-now-with-human-corpse/587545/78 "2011-07-04T07:03:13Z")
Why are people so squicked out about being in the same water with a dead body? Has no one ever been swimming in a pond or a lake or an ocean? I am sure there are plenty of dead things/waste products in those. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fall-river-public-pool-now-with-human-corpse/587545.md?page=3)