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.
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!
Don’t tase me Chlo!!!
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.
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.
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.
“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.
Is it wrong that I keep hearing the thread title in the tune of “99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall”?
Reminds me of a news story I read over the weekend: Link 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.
It takes one helluvan ingenous kid to poop on the barbecue.
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.
It takes longer to cook if he’s in a hamster ball…
(Just kidding… but a fan of A Modest Proposal nonetheless.)
No. That’s what it was modeled after.
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. . .