Health and safety zealots tell youngster her 2ft paddling pool needs a lifeguard


Strange | 208399 hits | May 27 8:56 am | Posted by: kitty
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For nearly a quarter of a century, Lourdes Maxwell has celebrated the arrival of summer by putting a paddling pool in the garden.

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  1. by avatar Lavics
    Tue May 27, 2008 7:04 pm
    I dont even know If I should laugh. That is just pathetic. O.o

  2. by avatar Robair
    Tue May 27, 2008 7:14 pm
    Toddler drowns in paddling pool

    Toddler drowned in paddling pool

  3. by avatar Robair
    Wed May 28, 2008 6:33 pm
    Yup. Saved my sister when she was three. I was nine, she was then a lifegaurd after highschool.

  4. by avatar commanderkai
    Wed May 28, 2008 6:34 pm
    Supervise, sure, but a lifeguard?

  5. by avatar Robair
    Wed May 28, 2008 8:27 pm
    "commanderkai" said
    Supervise, sure, but a lifeguard?

    From the article:
    Miss Maxwell could have a pool if she paid for insurance and ensured supervisors were on constant watch.
    Insurance is a little over the top if the pool is supervised.

    The article says you need permission to have a BarBQ... that one has me baffled.
    But toddlers and open water do not mix.

  6. by avatar novachick
    Wed May 28, 2008 8:39 pm
    I think they have missed the key element here. It goes without saying that children and pools should be supervised. I think the city council would have served this better if they were to enforce she and others be trained in CPR.

  7. by ShintoMale
    Wed May 28, 2008 8:41 pm
    how about teaching kids to swim



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