Thursday, July 5, 2007

On Pool Drains.

Pool drain rips out part of 6 year old girl's intestinal tract.

MINNEAPOLIS - A 6-year-old girl who sat on an open drain in a wading pool lost part of her intestinal tract to the drain’s powerful suction, her family said.

Abigail Taylor was injured in the wading pool on June 29, according to her family.

Her father, Scott Taylor, said the suction caused a 2-inch tear in Abigail’s rectum and pulled out much of her small intestine. Doctors had to remove the part of her intestines that remained, according to the family’s lawyer, Bob Bennett.

Abigail remained in intensive care at Children’s Hospital on Thursday and appeared to be improving, Bennett said.

She was to undergo surgery on Friday, Bennett said. “She’ll receive her nutrition through a port for the rest of her life,” he said.

Bennett said the swimming pool’s drain hole was improperly uncovered. However, the general manager of the club where the pool is located said he didn’t think anything was wrong with the pool. He referred questions to the attorney for the club’s insurance company, who declined to comment.

Several states have passed pool-safety laws after children drowned or were disemboweled by drain suction. North Carolina, for instance, requires pools to have dual drains to diffuse the force of the suction and prevent children from being trapped.


Couple of things.

1) Now she probably won't ever experience the joy of anal sex.
2) That had to be the world's worst rim job.
3) Did this hurt the pool filter?
4) Pool Drain? IT'S A TRAP!
5) Check the picture in the article. She's smiling her ass off.
6) I wonder if they made her sit in the emergency room while waiting for medical attention.

10 comments:

Kylebrown said...

Isn't this how John Edwards got rich?

_J_ said...

According to Anne Coulter.

Kylebrown said...

No, really I think John Edward's made his fortune off of a settlement from a case similar to this one.

Kylebrown said...

According to the wikipedia I am correct.

"The biggest case of his legal career was a 1997 product liability lawsuit against Sta-Rite, the manufacturer of a defective pool drain cover. The case involved a three-year-old girl [15] who was disemboweled by the suction power of the pool drain pump when she sat on an open pool drain whose protective cover other children at the pool had removed, after the swim club had failed to install the cover properly"

stupid worthless comment page, won't let me block quote

_J_ said...

I think it is ironic that one of the biggest cases of his career involved him agruing that something else sucked far too much.

Roscoe said...

yeah..

and.. then he got ruined over it, in the election run-up, when everyone said he was a filthy no good ambulance chaser who wanted to raise the cost of medical care.

_J_ said...

I thought he was those things.

MA17 said...

This is exactly why I do all of my sitting on dry land.

Roscoe said...

LANDSHARK!

_J_ said...

Man, I'd rather have my ass sucked out by a pool drain rather than have a landshark eat my ass out.