WCVB5: Philadelphia is urging residents not to swim in dumpsters after a rented trash bin was filled with fire hydrant water and transformed into a pool.
The online news site Billy Penn first reported the shenanigans at a weekend block party. The party’s organizers told the site they power-washed the dumpster, lined the bottom with plywood and tarps and cushioned the corners with pool noodles.
However, filling it with hydrant water caused the biggest issue with city officials. MORE
I don’t know. Still probably safer than the water at the Rio Olympics.
#HydrantWaterMatters – it really does.
Syracuse University students used to have an annual spring water fight. Students would open the hydrants in the area. Sure, lots of fun, but it drove the FD nuts as it lowered the water pressure available for a real fire.
If the water in Rio is good enough for Olympic swimming events, the dumpsters should be just fine for the urban elite.
The party hosts should just spend a few more bucks for a pump and tank truck and use water from the Schuylkill.
Ick.
The best option would to not live in that shit hole of a city.
“Karen Guss said, “you would think this decision would not require an explanation.”
True enough, but you’re dealing with city dwellers, not typically known for higher reasoning.
At first glance, I thought it was NBC Olympic diving coverage. Gives new meaning to ‘dumpster diving’.
Did this take place in Flint? 💩
They will have obtained true olympic status when they fish a body out of it.
No worse than dumping buckets full of ice over someones head. Assholes have to always get in the way of people having some fun. Screw’em fill it with hot water and some jets and you got yourself a ghetto hot tub.
Hmm I remember the F.D. opening a hydrant during a heat wave in K.C. Missouri way back when.
Evey neighborhood kid was there having a great time.
My how times have changed.
What illness could a resident of the City of Brotherly Love catch from a mere trash dumpster that could afflict more harm on him/her more than actually living in Fu*kin’ Philly, already does?
I rest my case, Your Honor.
INFLUCT!!!!
inflict
Axe me, haz I just been to Philly. Ahhhhh…. yo. I mean, yeah.
One open hydrant does not create the catastrophe she suggests….and since a good working fire would probably have more than one open in the immediate fire scene–for multiple pumpers or relay, etc., it suggests that Philly’s water system is a typical dem shithole, just like the city.
Improper operation of hydrants could cause a hydraulic shock that may fracture or otherwise compromise the integrity of the underground main. This could even cause sinkholes to form.
STILL not the infested pe·tri dish the grotto pool at the Playboy mansion is.
@Mortgages for the Masses August 6, 2016 at 12:16 pm
Oh, quit with your rich whitey “problems”! Rio don’t matter. The dumpsters are fine.
Burning certain parts of Philadelphia to the ground would be a HUGE improvement.
@Dadof4:
I don’t know if they still do it, but the New York City Fire Department provided sprinkler attachments on request to residents of side streets. This way the neighborhood children could still have fun, and the water pressure would remain at an acceptable level.
For all the carryongs-on in Philly, I nevertheless am predicting with all reasonable confidence that there will be not one single fatality from either a) swiming in the dumpster, or b) in a fire when the water pressure was too low from the dumpster full of water being taken from the city’s water supply.
I’ve been saying for years that part of the libs’ raisin d’etre had been to make absolutely certain that nobody has any fun, ever. And everyone know the libs have a stranglehold grip on Philly.
RAISON d’etre.
Fucking spell checker can’t spell in TWO languages now!
gfy, I like that. I’m going to assume they still do it and I’ll feel good about it until proven otherwise. Thanks.
I’m glad they at least encased the walls & floor with plastic. Maybe some entrepreneurs would think “Hey, lets start a hard plastic ‘rent-a-pool’ company and deliver to cities. Costs include permits.” Yeah I know…regulations. Which is why we need Trump. Badly.
(It still cracks me up when reading someones’ response to GreetingsFromYonkers with her acronym…..uh, you Are a woman, right? If not, please correct me.)
The fact that it’s partly blocking a public street does not seem to be a concern, according to the story. That’s what would bother me the most about it.
grool
Same place it would be if used as intended?
@Corona:
LOL! Yes, I AM a woman, 100%, no gender confusion going on here.
I even wear pretty flowing skirts in pastel floral or paisleys, cute flats with bows or flowers on them, and pretty chandelier earrings. I look a damned sight better than that dyke cow Hitlery.
I know these guys. They are hard working people who grew up in the neighborhood and every year they throw a block party (which has been a thing in Philly for decades…permits required) at their own expense. They designed and built a cap for the hydrant that delivered safe amounts of water just like the sprinklers that the city itself used to provide to neighborhoods. Just like a monolithic Democratic city to stifle creativity and innovation. That, and it was a slow news week so the media has to complain about something.
That’s PHILTHY, for ya’! 😆