# Pick 1 up pass it around 10 kids covered in shit in the pool **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 31, 2010, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-1-up-pass-it-around-10-kids-covered-in-shit-in-the-pool/541375 "2010-05-31T12:44:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2010, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-1-up-pass-it-around-10-kids-covered-in-shit-in-the-pool/541375/41 "2010-06-01T14:49:47Z")
I don’t understand why the kid was in the pool without an attendant parent, nor why a kid who is not potty-trained is allowed in the pool either. ---
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2010, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-1-up-pass-it-around-10-kids-covered-in-shit-in-the-pool/541375/42 "2010-06-01T14:55:27Z")
Every public pool I’ve ever been to has had a policy that non-potty trained children are allowed if they’re wearing a swim diaper. Only vaguely related - our neighborhood pool was shut down Friday & Saturday (on Memorial Day weekend!) because a flock of ducks decided to spend the morning there and made an unholy mess. Remember, people - your world is not sterile! ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2010, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-1-up-pass-it-around-10-kids-covered-in-shit-in-the-pool/541375/43 "2010-06-01T15:11:14Z")
> [@Wilbo523](#): > > You would remove the offending matter from the water, and **shock the pool**. The \*\*chlorine \*\*in the water is there to kill bacteria… Don’t tase me Chlo!!! ---
**Author:** ![This\_Just\_In\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@This\_Just\_In\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/This_Just_In_2)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2010, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-1-up-pass-it-around-10-kids-covered-in-shit-in-the-pool/541375/44 "2010-06-01T17:48:12Z")
While no one wants to see a ‘floatie’ coming towards them, I think the combined contamination from hundreds of peoples greasy asses is probably worse. Not to mention whatever other crap might be shedding from their bodies. So I’ve wondered why a single floatie necessitates having to shut a pool down and shock it, when every regular day a busy pool must have magnitudes more body nasties coming out of people (just in smaller less visible quantities). A floatie is probably in the pool no more than 5 minutes before someone sees it and gets a pool guy to scoop it out. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2010, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-1-up-pass-it-around-10-kids-covered-in-shit-in-the-pool/541375/45 "2010-06-01T19:26:19Z")
A person I worked with lived in Florida for years. The neighboring house had a green scummy pool. One time it was drained and a decomposed body was in the bottom. This was not a shock for that neighborhood. ---
**Author:** ![Sarabellum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarabellum/32/3492_2.png) [@Sarabellum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarabellum)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2010, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-1-up-pass-it-around-10-kids-covered-in-shit-in-the-pool/541375/46 "2010-06-01T20:20:09Z")
Interesting sidenote: On cruise ships, kids that aren’t potty trained are NOT allowed in any pool onboard. No swim diapers allowed. And we’re talking saltwater pools that are scrubbed nightly and drained & disinfected every week, here. This has been the rules on every cruise line I’ve been on - Royal Caribbean, Carnival, Holland. Do they know something we don’t? I’m thinking those swim diapers must not be very sanitary. Of course, germ paranoia kind of rules on cruise ships, due to the close quarters and threat of Norovirus. This is even the case on DISNEY cruises, although they at least have a seperate “toddler splash fountain” area for kids that aren’t potty trained. It is more akin to an outdoor shower than a pool, though. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Woodhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@Miss\_Woodhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Woodhouse)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-1-up-pass-it-around-10-kids-covered-in-shit-in-the-pool/541375/47 "2010-06-02T04:05:46Z")
“not within arms reach” does not equal “not watching your kid.” I take my kids to the public pool and my under fives are/were allowed well out of arms reach in the toddler pool. the deepest section of that pool is 2 feet and I watched them the whole time. If one of them had an issue I could get to their side in under 10 seconds. They had a great time, were kept safe, and were not raised to be fearful in the water. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2010, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-1-up-pass-it-around-10-kids-covered-in-shit-in-the-pool/541375/48 "2010-06-02T13:48:23Z")
Is it wrong that I keep hearing the thread title in the tune of “99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall”? ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-1-up-pass-it-around-10-kids-covered-in-shit-in-the-pool/541375/49 "2010-06-02T16:34:26Z")
Reminds me of a news story I read over the weekend: Link [http://www.wmbfnews.com/Global/story.asp?S=12528729](http://www.wmbfnews.com/Global/story.asp?S=12528729) The gist is that a 10-year-old saved a 5-year-old from drowning in the deep end of a hotel pool. Mom wasn’t at the pool at the time. A quote from her, per the news story: “I’m glad I wasn’t there because I would’ve panicked.” Idjit. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-1-up-pass-it-around-10-kids-covered-in-shit-in-the-pool/541375/50 "2010-06-02T16:46:05Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > Hey, if you invite us over I’ll dress the Dudeling in a pair of little swimmers then put him in one of those hamster ball contraptions **YWalker** was referring to. > And that’s just for the barbecue. It takes one helluvan ingenous kid to poop on the barbecue. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-1-up-pass-it-around-10-kids-covered-in-shit-in-the-pool/541375/51 "2010-06-02T16:58:20Z")
A local paper ran a story last year that claimed msot children don’t know how to wash themselves properly, and are therefore ultra-contaminated. My neighborhood’s pool requires the use of swim diapers, though there are no lifeguards on duty at the pool to supervise the use of such things. I have never been to my neighborhood’s pool, since I have witnessed the pool guy washing implements covered in dog feces in the pool . I’ve only seen him let his dog into the pool deck area once; of course, that was the time his doggie decided to leave a nice steaming pile next to the pool. ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-1-up-pass-it-around-10-kids-covered-in-shit-in-the-pool/541375/52 "2010-06-03T11:53:31Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > It takes one helluvan ingenous kid to poop on the barbecue. It takes longer to cook if he’s in a hamster ball… (Just kidding… but a fan of _A Modest Proposal_ nonetheless.) ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-1-up-pass-it-around-10-kids-covered-in-shit-in-the-pool/541375/53 "2010-06-03T12:04:23Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > Is it wrong that I keep hearing the thread title in the tune of “99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall”? No. That’s what it was modeled after. ---
**Author:** ![Tethered\_Kite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@Tethered\_Kite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tethered_Kite)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-1-up-pass-it-around-10-kids-covered-in-shit-in-the-pool/541375/54 "2010-06-03T12:21:25Z")
Since man first waded into a puddle humankind has been awash in poo. Fact. I suspect anytime you are in the water with other people you are being exposed to, ah, a number of things. Moms used to have baby poo pool parties when I was a babe. Everyone came. Built up our danged immune systems, ya bunch of sissies. Ever stop to think that sanitary bottle of water you drink is recycled dinosaur pee? I’m tellin’ ya, all through the annals of time. . . [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-1-up-pass-it-around-10-kids-covered-in-shit-in-the-pool/541375.md?page=2)