Little girl disembowled by kiddy-pool

Post by **feedback** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 8:50 pm

http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article ... yid=259181

Snatched the small intestine right out of her body, will never be able to eat again.

Post by **bitWISE** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 8:56 pm

That article sounds like it was written by a 10 year old.

Post by **i think i am** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 8:59 pm

Jesus that's like 15 minutes away from me

Post by **4days** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 8:59 pm

Post by **Captain** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 9:01 pm

4days wrote:eugh

Post by **R00k** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 9:51 pm

That's tragic.

So is she going to live the rest of her life in the hospital room?

I think I would rather just die in that case.

Post by **brisk** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 10:24 pm

That is insane. Very sad, yet I read the article with a constant grin on my face.

Post by **megami** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 10:56 pm

Sounds like that short story by Chuck Palahniuk

Post by **menkent** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 10:58 pm

remember kids: don't stick your asshole right on the pool drain. :icon14:

Post by **S@M** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 11:16 pm

sounds like a lawyers prepared spin

Post by **vileliquid1026** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 11:30 pm

megami wrote:Sounds like that short story by Chuck Palahniuk

Chuck Palahniuk :icon14:

Favorite author.

Post by **LawL** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 11:39 pm

rofl, too funny.

Post by **Geebs** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 11:41 pm

That story is plainly bullshit.

Post by **tnf** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 11:58 pm

Used to have people ask me about that possibility all the time when I was running a swimming pool...everyone that asked had, at the time, apparently heard of some horror story where a kid was completely disemboweled by a drain at the bottom of a pool.

The story has been picked up by the AP. I don't think its bullshit, but drains are supposed to be designed to protect from things like that.

I thought the stories were urban legends back when I heard them 12 years ago.

Like the urban legend of the chemical that turns color when someone pees in the pool. I can't believe people still believe that exists. Had a student argue that he had actually seen it work, so I really wonder what was going on when they were peeing in the pool and seeing color. Maybe bloody urine.

Post by **Geebs** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 12:01 am

The chemical that changes the colour of the water when you pee in the pool is conjugated bilirubin. It's the yellow stuff in wee.....

Post by **tnf** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 12:11 am

I know. His argument (and one I hear a lot) is that there is a pool additive that will make a red cloud around someone who pees. The guy at the pool chemical place I used said he got requests for it all the time by people who had just bought a pool or hot tub.

And some would also argue with him about KNOWING that this pee detector dye existed, and that they would just call some other store that had someone working there who knew pools better than this guy.

Post by **Geebs** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 12:22 am

Maybe he was colourblind and thought the green tinge of urine plus chlorinated water looked the same as red?

Post by **tnf** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 12:31 am

Or he could have just been full of shit and figured if he told me he saw it work I would stop telling him the stuff didn't exist.

Post by **tnf** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 1:16 am

snopes is handy.

but if you are referring to the first article on this thread, I don't think its a hoax:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19619471/

But it could be.

Post by **leilei** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 1:48 am

Post by **Mulletman** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 2:54 am

That is some sick shit.

Post by **Sanction** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 2:54 am

Chuck P. used to read Guts to audiences. Some would pass out, others would throw up.

Post by **FragaGeddon** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 3:07 am

The story of the woman dying in the store is fucked up also.

Post by **zeeko** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 3:18 am

man i fucking hate edina. and everything it stands for.

Post by **ajerara** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 4:39 am

ugh, the cover over the drain had been removed, and they looked in the pool filter and found her small intestine in there. Sausages, anyone?

http://wcco.com/topstories/local_story_185085504.html