What if it was full of shaving foam, though? Like that rollercoaster in that shaving ad from bygone days?
Sure, but splashing around in a pool with a running lawn mower is not a particularly healthy situation to put yourself in. In the very best case, the lawn mower is trashed. Not as stupid as driving into an empty pool, but not smart.
What if there was a shark in the pool? Would you choose the shark or the submerged battery? No one ever thinks about this.
Shouldn’t there have been a fence around the pool? I had two friends in elementary school who had backyard pools, and neither one of them had mowable areas anywhere near the pool.
If the water doesn’t put enough drag on the blade(s) to stall the engine, it’s not going to run long once the air intake is submerged.
The fence laws, I imagine, are going to vary from state to state. In general, however, I believe you just have to have a fence, not that it has to be next to the pool, just that you have to pass through it to get from the public area (ie sidewalk) to the pool itself. As long as it meets the rest of the requirements, I believe it can just be a normal fence surrounding your backyard/property.
Also, required or otherwise, it doesn’t mean everyone is in compliance.
And that seems to be close to what I’m finding online…
Swimming pools do not necessarily need a barrier close to the water. If your pool is located in a fenced backyard, or other large fenced area, and that fence meets the legal requirements, you might not need an additional barrier closer to the pool.
Lawmaker drives into a dry pool
You’d think that his head would be split
But good luck was with him that morning
He fell in a big pile of
SHAVING CREAM
Be nice and clean
Shave every day and you’ll always look keen
I’m gonna guess that he was making a turn near the empty pool and didn’t realize how close he actually was. One wheel caught the edge and flipped the mower into the deep end with him underneath it. That would be an 8-foot drop onto concrete head first, with a couple of hundred pounds of mower on top of you.
Or maybe he accidentally reversed when he wanted to go forward. Not a fun way to go, in either event.
A late entry wins Post of the Day! 
Not these days - four-stroke engines mostly. So, even more stroking.
You dig a 10’ deep grave site with a shovel and forget to bury the body.
I bet that wasn’t vandalism, it was war!
A Texas man is being charged with assault after punching a 69-year-old election worker who told him he couldn’t wear his Trump hat in the polling place.
While it was an asshole thing to do, this isn’t a case of a young thug beating up an old man. They are only 6 years apart in age. So I’m not sure why the election worker’s age is relevant.
I’ll note that among the charges was “injury to an elderly person”, but that’s like charging a 13-year-old for sex with a minor.
Because in Texas that’s a specific offense,
Texas Penal Code - PENAL § 22.04. Injury to a Child, Elderly Individual, or Disabled Individual
https://codes.findlaw.com/tx/penal-code/penal-sect-22-04/
Which seems silly because the guy is 2 years below being “elderly” himself per their laws. Not sure how much the difference between 63 and 65 matters when it comes to physical violence.
It’s one elderly person hitting another one (by any reasonable standard).
No, you’ve got it the wrong way round. It’s like charging a 19-year-old for sex with an underage person. The difference in years is not large, but it’s crucial.
The victim’s age puts him in a protected category. The age of the person who assaulted him doesn’t matter.
In general yes, although it can depend some on the person. As someone in my early 60s, I work with an American who is 67 and in much better shape than me. He plays tennis daily, lifts weight and does other exercises.
Too bad the trial won’t be finished before the election. Sweet JusticeTM would have him ineligible to vote because of this and thus his vote cast out.
Found another stupid MFer in the news! What? You think Chess is a sedate pastime? You have another think coming. (The link goes to Yahoo.)
A 17-year-old chess grandmaster was charged with assault and expelled from a championship tournament after he hit a woman when he lost a match in St. Louis last week, officials said.
Christopher Yoo “crumpled his scoresheet, stormed out of the tournament hall and struck a videographer from behind” after he lost a U.S. Chess Championship match at the Saint Louis Chess Club last Wednesday, the club said in a statement on X.