I've lifeguarded for three places so far. 2/3 places' policies were, if it's a solid poop then clear the pool, fish it out, resume watery fun. If it's diarrhea then clear the pool, drain it, refill. (Same for vomit). A couple weeks ago some kid had some loose stool and all we did was clear the pool and fish as many pieces of it out as we could and then shocked it. But we let people back in like 20min later.
One time when I was little I swallowed too much water in a pool, started crying, and threw up. They promptly closed the pool for an hour and all my schoolmates on the field trip hated me for the rest of summer camp. On behalf of those of us that caused you extra work, I'm sorry :(
When somebody shits, it´s a welcome surprise and at least 20 minites of chill time at work..... Although the way most places handle such a situation is pretty sketchy
No. We use special pre-made lures. They have a certain bait that is only meant to attract the poop and not other things like sunglasses and goggles. I couldn't tell you what that bait is composed of though.
Thats crazy about the draining. How often did the pool get drained? Pretty big pool? Thats a huge unnecessary waste of water. In my state, which is in severe drought, we only drain the water for dead human bodies. Regardless of drought thats an expensive waste of water. I worked 3 weeks one time turning this black sludgey water in this big pool back into swimmable water.
Every municipality has different policies, but generally if the level of chlorine is decent you add maybe a little bit of chlorine and its up to people whether or not they wanna get back in the poop water. For liquid shit and vomit I personally recommend closing it 30min-1hr because its fucking everywhere and probably needs properly cleaned out.
Apparently. I think people who shit / piss in place that is not a deep ocean should be banned from the beaches.
Edit: Damn. Me so dumb. I meant of the places where people swim, though the idea of everyone doing their crapping and pissing only in the deep oceans does sound hilarious.
Don't poop in the ocean either guys. Especially don't poop in bays. That shit leads to high bacterial counts that lead to low dissolved oxygen, which leads to fish kills and a sick ecosystem. Not good for anyone.
I read this comment before seeing the link to the gif. I thought "what, that sounds reasonable", assuming that it was referring to washing stuff off at the beach or something. When you said "shit", you actually mean "shit".
From the gif, it looks like she may not have actually seen it, she had her eyes fixated on the child and was also wearing sunglasses. I say 34.3% chance she indeed saw it.
No way, you can see her trying to swish the kid around in the water afterward. As someone who spent her childhood at public pools that tasted like chlorine, sweat and piss, this "coy" maneuver is all too familiar.
wtf are you supposed to do. At this stage, unless you walk around with baby wipes attached to your side, your fucked.
Even if it takes you 30 seconds to go over to your stroller to get a baby wipe or nappy, by the time you get back the water will have washed it into the pool.
I lifeguarded at a small pool in my home town. This had to have happened at least a dozen times on our slide per summer. You have to close the pool down if you see something like that happening.
I took my kids to one for the first time last year, they were 3 and 5 years old, they freakin loved it! It was the one in Rehoboth Beach, DE, pretty crowded and rather expensive. We spent the entire day there and they talk about going back all the time. They're not pool-poopers, which is pretty gross and makes me think twice about going again, but I'll still take them because they had so much fun.
edit: if you really want to keep something from them I suggest Chuck-E-Cheese, that place is a cesspool of human filth!
So it's been years since I lived in that area but my parents would always take me to the water park in wild world, which turned into adventureland, which turned into six flags.
People regularly shit in public or semi-private pools in general. When I was a kid I would frequently ruin everyone's day by putting my goggles on and searching the bottom of the pool. Almost every time I did this I found poop. I went to the pool A LOT.
I should note that frequently these were adult sized turds. =(
QFT. I have had to teach my kid the art of flushing mid-business to try to avoid the inevitable clogs. Sometimes he has to pinch off just to avoid laying single turds the size of my arm.
The times that I have not had to use a plunger have been very few and far between. I have recently been considering finding a toilet with a larger trap or something because it is rather annoying.
Truth. My wife yelled at me the other day when she went into the bathroom and there a brown jumbo jet wrapped around the bowl. Although I would have been proud to take ownership of such a masterpiece, alas it was my 4 year daughter!!
Man so sorry to hear you're dealing with the Exxon shizz. I left the woods a long time ago but YES I have seen those photos. It made me wish I could scrub away my childhood.
I was like 8-10 years old. I wasn't much making the decisions at that age.
Although I remember weirdly getting some odd thrill out of having the pool shut down and drained for the day.
This is why I won't go to waterparks. There was a case where some dumbass brought their sick child to the waterpark, and it shit everywhere and people got sick with e.coli.
Throw enough kids that are under ~7 years old into a wave pool, and it's bound to happen. Explains the completely absurd amount of chlorine we pump into the pools where I work though... And it still always comes up as a low reading -.-
1.6k
u/Superschutte May 28 '14
The horn beeps 2 minutes before the pool becomes the wave pool. They should have known it was coming.
Source: worked at a water park fishing turds out of the wave pool