An 8-year-old girl was sucked into a swimming pool pipe at a Hilton hotel. The management company blamed her parents - eviltoast
Management blames parents for 8-year-old getting sucked into pool pipe at hotel
www.independent.co.uk
On March 23, Aliyah Lynette Jaico, 8, and her family were enjoying an afternoon of swimming at a DoubleTree by Hilton hotel when she disappeared.
  • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1621·
    5 months ago

    That poor child… And those poor ems workers who had to dig out her little body…

    I tagged along with my wife for a pool day at her friend’s house with our kids. I was swimming along near the wall of the pool when my foot was violently pulled into the vaccuum line. Really spooked me. It’s code for those suction lines to have a spring-loaded cover. This one didn’t. I luckily freed my foot and went to check the valves on the pump. All suction was routed to the vacuum line, none to skimmer.

    Some expensive pumps have an anti-entrapment system but most do not.

    I warned her to get that shit fixed ASAP…

    For commercial pools of this scale, there’s just no chance to resist.

    I own a pool now and I take all that shit very seriously. You don’t mess around with water.

    • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
      55·
      5 months ago

      I still have nightmares from being a kid in a pool and getting stuck with my face basically at the water line because of something like that.