Question re Swimming Pool Safety Fences - Home Tiki Bars

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Wed, Sep 7, 2011 9:39 AM I bow to the voice of experience and common sense! I had no idea that kids were dying like flies in home pools - that being said without any irony or sarcasm! Just goes to show that my purely esthetic love for the old times is not always on par with reality... On 2011-09-05 20:52, sur2baja wrote: OK, I'm not going to get into a pi$$ing match here about property owners rights or whatever but as a Firefighter/Paramedic who has been on way too many drownings of children, toddlers and infants and as a pool owner of a tropical back yard...please put in the darn safety fence!!! ......... Back to safety, never ever ever turn your back on the little ones and even the not so little ones. We taught our children how to swim prior to putting in the pool and have never knowingly let non-swimmers in it. We had an eight year old boy at my sons birthday party jump in and go straight to the bottom. He didn't know how to swim. When I questioned the mother about how the invitation said "this is a pool party...swimmers only" she said she sought he would learn by jumping in. Argh!!!

I bow to the voice of experience and common sense! I had no idea that kids were dying like flies in home pools - that being said without any irony or sarcasm!

Just goes to show that my purely esthetic love for the old times is not always on par with reality...

On 2011-09-05 20:52, sur2baja wrote:
OK, I'm not going to get into a pi$$ing match here about property owners rights or whatever but as a Firefighter/Paramedic who has been on way too many drownings of children, toddlers and infants and as a pool owner of a tropical back yard...please put in the darn safety fence!!!
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Back to safety, never ever ever turn your back on the little ones and even the not so little ones. We taught our children how to swim prior to putting in the pool and have never knowingly let non-swimmers in it. We had an eight year old boy at my sons birthday party jump in and go straight to the bottom. He didn't know how to swim. When I questioned the mother about how the invitation said "this is a pool party...swimmers only" she said she sought he would learn by jumping in. Argh!!!

Post #605809 by bigbrotiki on Wed, Sep 7, 2011 9:39 AM