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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWater doesn't drown people
People who fall in water do.
Why do I have to put a fence around my pool?
think
(11,641 posts)Aristus
(66,096 posts)it's all wet...
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)People who start fires do.
Aristus
(66,096 posts)I support gun control. It was a pun on the OP.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)elleng
(130,156 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)You're no poke in the eye either, if I may say so.
rgbecker
(4,806 posts)elleng
(130,156 posts)the attractive nuisance doctrine states that a landowner may be held liable for injuries to children trespassing on the land if the injury is caused by a hazardous object or condition on the land that is likely to attract children who are unable to appreciate the risk posed by the object or condition. The doctrine has been applied to hold landowners liable for injuries caused by abandoned cars, piles of lumber or sand, trampolines, and swimming pools. However, it can be applied to virtually anything on the property of the landowner.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)It's a little known clause in the same law that lets you shoot 'em.
Shoot 'em, drown 'em, whatever.
elleng
(130,156 posts)Anyway, that's not the issue, as you know, counsel: One being 'allowed' to drown or shoot someone differs entirely from maintaining a swimming pool; its rather some sort of defense to a charge of manslaughter.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)They'll never reach the pool.
elleng
(130,156 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)elleng
(130,156 posts)unblock
(51,974 posts)so if you see a neighbor flailing about in your pool,....
ok i'm not a lawyer so please don't take this advice!
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)DollarBillHines
(1,922 posts)and I will get back to you when I quit sputtering, choking and treading water.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)DollarBillHines
(1,922 posts)I would really appreciate it, if you could.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)If a big line forms to piss on it, you'll only have yourself to blame.
daleanime
(17,796 posts)the greenest spot in the graveyard.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)It will be the yellowest, most dead spot in the graveyard.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)...as much as a lack of familiarity with peeing.
There's a defunct golf course near my home where I walk my dog at night. We're both pretty consistent and her spot is a lot greener than mine.
Not sure what that means, though.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)DollarBillHines
(1,922 posts)That's where the song comes from (Robert Johnson)...
My grave could never be kept clean.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Trust me on this, brother.
DollarBillHines
(1,922 posts)Are we we from the same place?
If so, I think you know what I mean.
Is pinboy3niner a field name?
Were you there?
DBH
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)I served in VN as a grunt platoon leader (1st Lt.) in the 101st Airborne Division.
And my username is the last radio callsign I had in-country.
Yeah, I think we're from the same place, brother.
DollarBillHines
(1,922 posts)I never paid any attention to that avatar. There's a bunch of us, mostly undeserving.
Something about that 'pinboy' thing got my attention.
I am so glad that we are home and conversing. Who would have thought?
Mostly, I hide behind bottles of bourbon and wine.
My dear friend Colin Goff (known here as Redstone) turned me on to this site. You should have known him, pinboy3niner.
He was one of us.
But he is gone.
We could have all gone fishing.
DBH
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)I would have liked that.
I remember Redstone, too. You were lucky to know him IRL. I only knew him here. He was a good man.
I'm glad you made it, too. Through VN, and through the aftermath. You know what I mean. For some, it's still a struggle to survive every day.
One of these days, you and I have to go fishing. And share a toast to our lost comrades. I think they'd like that...
But you have to cut the 'undeserving' crap. We ARE deserving, and don't you forget it! That 'undeserving' BS feeling helped kill some of our friends, by their own hands.
After what we went through, what we endured, and all of the pain, we DO deserve to live good and decent life. Remember the epilogue of 'Platoon': "Those of us who DID make it have an obligation to build again...to teach to others what we know...and to try, with what's left of our lives, to find a goodness and a meaning to this life."
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)But noooooo. We had to go Army, which didn't have the foresight to include swimming in Basic and AIT. Now we have to pay for their oversight with our bloated, waterlogged corpses. Thanks, Army!
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)I was too young at the time, but I thought a lot of the troops in Vietnam joined the SQUIRTS.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)The lowliest, most rearest fuckin' echelonest troop in the most securest rearest basecamp back then today prides himself on his combat skills and would takest the most severest umbrage at your SQUIRTS allegation.
But, first things first, some of us would like to know what your SQUIRTS acronym stands for....
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)DollarBillHines
(1,922 posts)Tie knots in the cuffs...
Puff air into the legs (lie back and hand-paddle water/air into the legs).
Then wrap the legs around your neck.
Works great in a still pool, not so much in open water.
I am old now, and cannot make it work in my own pool.
What were we/they thinking?
alittlelark
(18,886 posts)......
DollarBillHines
(1,922 posts)but I have hell, just putting on my boots.
alittlelark
(18,886 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)mokawanis
(4,434 posts)for home-pool defense. But super-soakers should be banned.
datasuspect
(26,591 posts)people who take barbituates when they get drunk do.
Atman
(31,464 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Get off my lawn!"
missingthebigdog
(1,233 posts)Lol
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)People who smoke cigarettes kill people!
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)There's not much that actually kills people.
Sharks? Hell no. It's the people who go in the water that are the problem there.
Brother Buzz
(36,217 posts)GReedDiamond
(5,299 posts)...would be impossible.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)...and with OUR chemicals, we just make it a little more difficult, that's all.
Rex
(65,616 posts)You bought an above ground pool?
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)I spent a god-damned fortune on a contractor who built me a below-pool yard!
Damn, I wished I'd thought of that first.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)Smart-ass minds think alike.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Freaky.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)OneTenthofOnePercent
(6,268 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Rope doesn't hang people. Insane gangs of loons from the National Rope Association do.