It was even the thing to do in Hooterville!
Just boys being boys. But that is no longer allowed.
I thought at first they meant they were going to start charging a regular fee!
Kids being kids. Only problem is they have camera/phones to record all their antics! Turn the phones off and have fun! But then again everyone else has cameras around their houses, business’s, etc... So they still have fun but get caught. Poor kids these days.
Didn’t the girls on Petticoat Junction swin in the water tower?
I think part of the problem may be that the water is treated prior to being used to fill the tower.
Don’t know about you, but I’m not sure I’d want to drink water that a couple of teenage boys had bathed in.
So it’s apparently open at the top, so what about bird poop, animals falling in and drowning, etc?
But a few kids swimming in it is a problem?
Call Uncle Joe. Looks like the kids have been swimming in the water tower again. Petty Coat Junction will have an item for the scandal sheet this month.
So that’s why the town’s water tasted funny.
And try to convince me none of them peed in ;-)
On a slightly related topic, does anyone know how water in a water tower is prevented from freezing during winter? I can’t believe the towers are heated. Is the water just recirculated constantly? Are the towers drained before cold weather sets in?
Ya, but don’t arrest Antifa members for assaulting conservatives.....
Cops would wait until just the right moment.....
I swam in ours. The metal tank was 30 feet deep and 160 feet across. Really hot in the air above the water, but the water was cool and fluoridated! Was fun to swim down and drink water. While a bit gross to think about, a few sweaty kids isn’t going to affect 5 million gallons. We added a lock to the chain so we could get in any time.. My dad eventually told someone at the water company, but the lock was still there years later. I expected if I got caught there would be some stern words and maybe a fine. Post 9/11, well, times have changed.
It's a contamination issue: this antic could have very easily led to E. coli in a public water system, and a lot of people getting sick. At the least, this would result in a "do not use" situation while the system management flushed, disinfected and retested the system.
It's a basic lack of respect for others' property issue. It's a lack of parent-instilled discipline issue.
Water system facilities are a federally-protected critical infrastructure: any tampering or trespassing is a federal crime.
I worked for a State-level drinking water oversight agency. I have personal experience in helping a small water system deal with a water tower tampering issue, and the emergency response effort not just by the water system, but all levels of enforcement agencies up to and including the FBI. Even to the point of sending water samples for detailed testing to see if anything detectable was present. The water system management had to conduct more than a few flushes of the entire system (250,000 gallons in just the one water tower), and the entire customer base was in a "do not use for anything" situation for over a week. This led to the agency assisting with and enforcing the posting of the Federal warning signs on all water system facilities.
The water system should (and has an obligation to) press charges, and the Feds should indeed throw the book at them.
Who peed in the H2O?
Welcome to our ool!
Notice there’s no P in it.
Please keep it that way.
I’m glad we don’t have those kinds of problems where I live.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3775691/posts
9 shot, teen arrested in football shooting
Unfortunately, the parents of these delinquents would be the first to sue the city if one or all of them drowned .... and worse if one of the dead bodies got sucked down the drain and clogged the system up. Bet the city put the locks there for a purpose.