As I say, when I moved into my house I filled the house with guns, but I scrapped the pool, because pools are dangerous.
An eight-year-old boy in South Carolina drowned in freak circumstances in an above-ground, backyard pool while swimming in three-feet of water last week.
Investigators have speculated that Gavin Quance – who was on the school swim team – became entangled or stuck under the pool cover which had bunched at one end of the water.
Indeed, when his distraught mother found her son face-down in the pool, the ladder was lying on the lawn a few feet away as if knocked and a hose was still filling up the tank.
Even a skilled swimmer in a pool not ready for swimming, and even with only a few feet of water can find themselves in deep trouble.
My heart goes out to the family.
H/T Bob
