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Little girl disembowled by kiddy-pool
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 8:50 pm
by feedback
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.
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 8:56 pm
by bitWISE
That article sounds like it was written by a 10 year old.
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 8:59 pm
by i think i am
Jesus that's like 15 minutes away from me
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 8:59 pm
by 4days
eugh
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 9:01 pm
by Captain
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 9:51 pm
by R00k
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.

Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 10:24 pm
by brisk
That is insane. Very sad, yet I read the article with a constant grin on my face.
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 10:56 pm
by megami
Sounds like that short story by Chuck Palahniuk
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 10:58 pm
by menkent
remember kids: don't stick your asshole right on the pool drain. :icon14:
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 11:16 pm
by S@M
sounds like a lawyers prepared spin
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 11:30 pm
by vileliquid1026
megami wrote:Sounds like that short story by Chuck Palahniuk
Chuck Palahniuk :icon14:
Favorite author.
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 11:39 pm
by LawL
rofl, too funny.
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 11:41 pm
by Geebs
That story is plainly bullshit.
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 11:58 pm
by tnf
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.
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 12:01 am
by Geebs
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.....
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 12:11 am
by tnf
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.
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 12:22 am
by Geebs
Maybe he was colourblind and thought the green tinge of urine plus chlorinated water looked the same as red?
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 12:31 am
by tnf
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.
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 1:16 am
by tnf
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.

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 1:48 am
by leilei
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 2:54 am
by Mulletman
That is some sick shit.
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 2:54 am
by Sanction
Chuck P. used to read Guts to audiences. Some would pass out, others would throw up.
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 3:07 am
by FragaGeddon
The story of the woman dying in the store is fucked up also.
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 3:18 am
by zeeko
man i fucking hate edina. and everything it stands for.
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 4:39 am
by ajerara
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