# Pool crashed into basement. How do we fix this? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 10, 2014, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pool-crashed-into-basement-how-do-we-fix-this/695230 "2014-08-10T12:05:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pool-crashed-into-basement-how-do-we-fix-this/695230/61 "2014-08-11T06:57:10Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > Don’t accuse others of being trolls outside of the Pit. I’m sure “troll”, in the context of this thread, is just a euphemism for “comedian”. Are we allowed to accuse others of being comedians outside the Pit? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pool-crashed-into-basement-how-do-we-fix-this/695230/62 "2014-08-11T12:08:32Z")
Not if we use the word “troll,” or any of the many euphemistic phrases associated with it–“Mr. Underbridge,” for example. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pool-crashed-into-basement-how-do-we-fix-this/695230/63 "2014-08-11T12:17:17Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > **Nickel, Please?** , also note that if someone gets hurt, you and your parents are going to be stuck with the liability. Assuming the OP is true (which looks unlikely), **Nickel, Please!?** is the chapter advisor. In other words, the adult in the room. And the one who is going to be held responsible. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pool-crashed-into-basement-how-do-we-fix-this/695230/64 "2014-08-11T15:07:47Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > **TogoFan** is sure to crash the party Not if he’s on the planning committee. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pool-crashed-into-basement-how-do-we-fix-this/695230/65 "2014-08-11T15:35:55Z")
I don’t believe for a second that the OP is true. But I did get a good laugh out of it anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pool-crashed-into-basement-how-do-we-fix-this/695230/66 "2014-08-11T16:25:28Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > I gotta think this post is a fake. Unless the OP can supply a link to a local news account of the event? Yep, I’m calling BS on this one. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pool-crashed-into-basement-how-do-we-fix-this/695230/67 "2014-08-11T16:44:40Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > You really have no choice except to accept the consequences. Well done sir! Well done! An engineer and a licensed general contractor should called to get work started. The OP is either joking or an idiot, or both. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pool-crashed-into-basement-how-do-we-fix-this/695230/68 "2014-08-11T16:57:54Z")
On the one hand, this is the only post Nickel Please has made and he made it the day he joined. On the other hand, he hasn’t posted this topic on a flood (… okay, not exactly intended, but I’m not sorry about the pun) of other message boards. Over? Did you say “over”? Nothing is over until we decide it is! ---
**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:** [August 11, 2014, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pool-crashed-into-basement-how-do-we-fix-this/695230/69 "2014-08-11T19:51:55Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > Well done sir! Well done! > > An engineer and a licensed general contractor should called to get work started. The OP is either joking or an idiot, or both. You’ve been here long enough to know insulting other members happens in the Pit and only the Pit, take it there and out of this topic. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pool-crashed-into-basement-how-do-we-fix-this/695230/70 "2014-08-11T20:02:39Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > I’m wondering what university graduates people of this caliber. > Do DeVry or Capella have frats? They’re probably from University of Phoenix. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pool-crashed-into-basement-how-do-we-fix-this/695230/71 "2014-08-11T20:14:30Z")
Jeez, and I thought a portable hot tub on my neighbour’s deck was a bad idea. ---
**Author:** ![Razncain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9d8465/32.png) [@Razncain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Razncain)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pool-crashed-into-basement-how-do-we-fix-this/695230/72 "2014-08-11T21:54:19Z")
Add me to the, there is nothing to fix, because it didn’t happen, crowd. No one would be asking that kind of question for help here, when they know the severity of the problem, and expecting there would be some helpful solution that one could give on a BB. But he thought it was still an amusing story to tell, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pool-crashed-into-basement-how-do-we-fix-this/695230/73 "2014-08-11T23:10:16Z")
> [@UTejas](#): > > > [@running\_coach](#): > > > > Interesting. The OP has made one post and his last activity was one minute later. > > Probably in the basement with a bucket bailing out water. > > But seriously, this OP is 100% fake. The dead giveaway that the OP was faked? He posted at 7am Central time (or 5am Pacific, 6am Mountain or 8am Eastern). Either way, I don’t believe that any fratboy is up that early on a Sunday. ---
**Author:** ![jimbuff314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jimbuff314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuff314)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pool-crashed-into-basement-how-do-we-fix-this/695230/74 "2014-08-12T01:03:53Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > The dead giveaway that the OP was faked? He posted at 7am Central time (or 5am Pacific, 6am Mountain or 8am Eastern). Either way, I don’t believe that any fratboy is up that early on a Sunday. Not tuh disagree about tuh ‘faked’: > [@](#): > > I’m a new chapter advisor for my fraternity at my **Alma mater** ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pool-crashed-into-basement-how-do-we-fix-this/695230/75 "2014-08-12T01:27:15Z")
Yes, he’s supposedly the adult in the chapter house, but I don’t believe he would be awake that early on a Sunday. ---
**Author:** ![Enter\_the\_Flagon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Enter\_the\_Flagon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enter_the_Flagon)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pool-crashed-into-basement-how-do-we-fix-this/695230/76 "2014-08-12T04:39:46Z")
> [@jimbuff314](#): > > Not tuh disagree about tuh ‘faked’: Ooh, good catch. Makes you wonder where the survivors were buried. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pool-crashed-into-basement-how-do-we-fix-this/695230/77 "2014-08-12T11:35:26Z")
Catch what? ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pool-crashed-into-basement-how-do-we-fix-this/695230/78 "2014-08-12T12:26:54Z")
> [@Tully\_Mars](#): > > Yep. You know how I can tell? There were girls there. Hey, watch your mouth! I’m married to an MIT guy. Of course I have weird taste in men. ---
**Author:** ![BobArrgh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobarrgh/32/2881_2.png) [@BobArrgh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobArrgh)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pool-crashed-into-basement-how-do-we-fix-this/695230/79 "2014-08-12T12:31:29Z")
I have theory about this. I think that **Nickel, Please!?** is a time traveler from the future and he is here asking for advice so he can go back to the future to prevent this from happening. Which one of these guys do you think he is? I’m guessing he’s the one with the laptop. http: [//metro.co.uk/2014/08/11/chinese-students-spend-hot-summer-by-the-pool-without-leaving-their-room-4828324/](https://metro.co.uk/2014/08/11/chinese-students-spend-hot-summer-by-the-pool-without-leaving-their-room-4828324/) (Link broken due to possibly NSFW articles in the right-rail.) ---
**Author:** ![Nickel\_Please](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b19c9b/32.png) [@Nickel\_Please](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nickel_Please)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2014, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pool-crashed-into-basement-how-do-we-fix-this/695230/80 "2014-08-14T22:34:04Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Interesting. The OP has made one post and his last activity was one minute later. I haven’t responded immediately for a reason. Many of the posts made me very angry. Being the fraternity gentleman that I am, I restrained myself from posting several days. > [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Yes, he’s supposedly the adult in the chapter house, but I don’t believe he would be awake that early on a Sunday. Yes, I was awake that early on a Sunday. It’s my internal clock. I am a successful career man that works long hours. I get up early most mornings. Well, we’re still not sure what were going to do. As for now, we’ve sealed off that wing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pool-crashed-into-basement-how-do-we-fix-this/695230.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pool-crashed-into-basement-how-do-we-fix-this/695230.md?page=5)