Pool Hoppers . . .What Do You Think

[Yorkiemom1]

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....

[jp4m2]

Originally Posted by Mom2TwoYorkies

Wow, I never thought of that . . .good idea! The only other alternative I could come up with is leaving the side light on that shines in the pool area . . but my husband would complain about the electricity being wasted . . . I also suggested that we should just pull on the solar cover every night, but he made that seem like a HUGE chore . . so that's out . . .

They do have motion lights so the light is only on when it senses movement. It can be a pain if you have cats roaming around.....

We just had a tragic accident in my area with a pool. A toddler got out of his home and wondered over to the neighbors house that had an in ground pool. They looked for a couple of hours when someone decided to look in the pool. No one had looked there because the pool had a gate around it which was supposedly latched and they also had a solar cover on it. He slipped under the cover and went to the bottom. So sad.....

[McheleM]

Originally Posted by Mom2TwoYorkies

Wow, I never thought of that . . .good idea! The only other alternative I could come up with is leaving the side light on that shines in the pool area . . but my husband would complain about the electricity being wasted . . . I also suggested that we should just pull on the solar cover every night, but he made that seem like a HUGE chore . . so that's out . . .

Get a motion light and aim it at a spot near the pool, gate or wherever so If someone moves it comes on. It will scare them because they will think you flipped on a light. Paired with the baby monitor as someone mentioned, you would know if someone was there because you would hear them scrambling to leave and probably a few expletives as they do.

We have cameras and an alarm system but the alarm doesn't cover someone climbing over our fence. Although, here, coming into a fenced in area with locked gates still constitutes trespassing and if I felt threatened, I could shoot them. I have shown up at the front yard with a loaded shotgun in hand. The teens in question didnt hang around to see if I was actually going to use it or not.

[LunasMomma]

Sometimes it's scary having a pool. You can further protect yourself by putting up "NO TRESPASSING" signs on the fence, where they are most visible to those idiots that would climb over to get to your pool.

You know, when I was a teenager, we used to "pool hop" and never thought a thing about it Of course, people weren't sue-happy back then, either And we were respectful, we didn't leave any trash or make a mess, we just went for a quick, quiet dip and left.

Hopefully they won't be back!