[Newsbot]

Title: Health and safety zealots tell youngster her 2ft paddling pool needs a lifeguard
Category: Strange
Posted By: kitty
Date: 2008-05-27 08:56:10

[Lavics]

I dont even know If I should laugh. That is just pathetic. O.o

[Robair]

Toddler drowns in paddling pool

Toddler drowned in paddling pool

[Robair]

Yup. Saved my sister when she was three. I was nine, she was then a lifegaurd after highschool.

[commanderkai]

Supervise, sure, but a lifeguard?

[Robair]

commanderkai commanderkai:

Supervise, sure, but a lifeguard?

From the article:

$1:

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.

[novachick]

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.

[ShintoMale]

how about teaching kids to swim