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| Thread ID: 88321 | 2008-03-23 14:02:00 | Girl Dies After Having 'Intestines' Sucked Out By Pool Drain | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 652145 | 2008-03-24 00:00:00 | its common in the states. there has been a few doco's on tv here about it. unfortunately the common design of pool in the states is a bottom suction drain. if you knock the cap off it you can get sucked into it. lots of accidents in the US from it. NZ uses overflow outlet style which is a lot safer. typical US, use a crappy system because they can't be bothered changing. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 652146 | 2008-03-24 00:05:00 | The health laws require bottom-suction for bacterial control. Just skimming the top where the warmest water is, will not get to the soup of bacteria on the bottom...that is until someone dives down there and gets a mouthful or opens their eyes. Infection in mucous membrane areas aren't fun. Eyes have been known to get so infected that vision is destroyed. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 652147 | 2008-03-24 02:33:00 | You can find multiple reports about little girls with different names in different years and different pools. On June 24, 1993, Valerie Lakey was playing in a wading pool at the Medfield Area Recreation Club in Wake County, NC (a few miles down the road from where I live in Raleigh). The drain cover on the only suction outlet in the pool had been removed sometime previously, probably by other children earlier that day. When Valerie approached the uncovered outlet, the suction was strong enough to pull her down and suck 80% of her small intestine and 50-70% of her large intestine out through her anus. Four adults could not free her until the pool's pumps had been turned off. www.monkeytime.org And variations: blogs.consumerreports.org |
pctek (84) | ||
| 652148 | 2008-03-24 02:35:00 | The health laws require bottom-suction for bacterial control . Just skimming the top where the warmest water is, will not get to the soup of bacteria on the bottom . . . that is until someone dives down there and gets a mouthful or opens their eyes . Infection in mucous membrane areas aren't fun . Eyes have been known to get so infected that vision is destroyed . that doesn't seam to be a problem here for some reason . maybe because we kill the bugs with chlorine ?? |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 652149 | 2008-03-24 04:55:00 | that doesn't seam to be a problem here for some reason . maybe because we kill the bugs with chlorine ?? Same here . . . chlorine and acid for the pH . . . but that isn't the whole answer . Just think of a swimming pool as someone's . . . no . . make that: EVERYONE'S . . . personal toilet . . . think about where that water has been . . . every nook and cranny . . . and then tell me that you are satisfied with chemical placebos . :eek: Me? I'm gonna watch Jeeves & Wooster right now . . . . . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 652150 | 2008-03-25 23:01:00 | Just think of a swimming pool as someone's ...no..make that: EVERYONE'S...personal toilet...think about where that water has been...every nook and cranny...and then tell me that you are satisfied with chemical placebos. :eek: You breath the air in the US of A SJ, yet you still worry about a little bit of crud in the swimming pool water? Every lungful of air you breathe has variously been exhaled by diseased drug addicts, farted by billions of Chinese, passed through innumerable internal combustion engines, carried the emanations from countless trillions of dead bodies of all descriptions, wafted over sewage ponds and stagnant polluted waters, it is as rich a soup as you could ever hope to find. Last time I was in Dallas you needed a fog light plus a machete and wedges to hold the air apart to see where you were going, I've never seen worse pollution. We won't even think about what water has been doing, but it has all been passed by more than the management, so I'd rather drink from a swimming pool than the ocean, or just about any "fresh water" lake or stream in any industrialised country. I think I'd take the chemical placebos. Cheers Billy 8-{) :yuck: |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 652151 | 2008-03-26 01:36:00 | You breath the air in the US of A SJ, yet you still worry about a little bit of crud in the swimming pool water? Every lungful of air you breathe has variously been exhaled by diseased drug addicts, farted by billions of Chinese, passed through innumerable internal combustion engines, carried the emanations from countless trillions of dead bodies of all descriptions, wafted over sewage ponds and stagnant polluted waters, it is as rich a soup as you could ever hope to find . Last time I was in Dallas you needed a fog light plus a machete and wedges to hold the air apart to see where you were going, I've never seen worse pollution . We won't even think about what water has been doing, but it has all been passed by more than the management, so I'd rather drink from a swimming pool than the ocean, or just about any "fresh water" lake or stream in any industrialised country . I think I'd take the chemical placebos . Cheers Billy 8-{) :yuck: . . . and I hear the trade winds blow from Australia to youse guys . . . . and they are a lot closer than China to the US . . . . and don't forget that kangaroos are giant rats . this: "it has all been passed by more than the management" . . are we gonna get into gas-passing here too? |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 652152 | 2008-03-26 01:38:00 | do you guys in the US use pool cleaners that suck up all the crap off the bottom of the pool ?? | tweak'e (69) | ||
| 652153 | 2008-03-26 01:53:00 | . . . and I hear the trade winds blow from Australia to youse guys . . . . and they are a lot closer than China to the US . . . . and don't forget that kangaroos are giant rats . this: "it has all been passed by more than the management" . . are we gonna get into gas-passing here too?The main difference between 'roos and rats (apart from the size thing) is that 'roos, while a definite pest in some areas, do not eat rubbish . They compete with cattle and sheep for grass and other vegetable matter, so have less communicable diseases than rattus rattus (or is it wratterus?? :D ) . . . |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 652154 | 2008-03-26 01:54:00 | The main difference between 'roos and rats (apart from the size thing) is that 'roos, while a definite pest in some areas, do not eat rubbish. They compete with cattle and sheep for grass and other vegetable matter, so have less communicable diseases than rattus rattus (or is it wratterus?? :D )... :lol: :lol: :blush: |
wratterus (105) | ||
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