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Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly  I would still ask the police, put them on alert as unsupervised swimming can be dangerous to the swimmer, especially if impaired with alcohol, drugs, etc. To not notify them might cause you problems. Next time the kid may bring a young child with him. And ask if I had any further jurisdictional preventative obligations should one of the kids slip & fall & become a quadriplegic, etc., & be certain your insurance policy doesn't have a clause that says you are covered only when swimming is properly supervised, or some language like that. I would keep time, date, phone numbers, places called & name, title notes of my conversations, and file that away. |
ABSOLUTELY!!! When I was a teen ager, we had an in-ground pool...we had to have a 6 foot fence around the yard, a pad locked gate...and then a 4 foot fence around the pool proper...that pool was so much legal responsibility...when Hurricane Alicia hit Houston, it blew down all the fencing...my parents had to hire a guard at night, until the fence could be reconstructed, because the insurance would be null and void if a kid got in there a drowned. The years after that, momma got up one morning and opened the sliding door curtains, and there was candles all around the pool, like some kind of devil worship had gone on during the night...momma almost died!!! She called the police and the insurance company, theysaid to post signs, and that was all they needed to additionally...so she did...NO UNAUTHORIZED SWIMMING ALLOWED....several months later, she actually caught 4 kids swimming....called the police, as she wanted it on record...she was so afraid some kid was going to drown and she would be liable.....and then, in retaliation, they thr4ew millions of BBs into the pool, that got sucked up into the pool pump and cirrculating system.....HUGE MESS....