>>I'm not saying to close it down. I'm just amazed that a safety
grill hadn't been one of the first things done with that fountain. Looks like they took a chance and now will lose a whole lot of money, not to mention that 4 people died because of an oversite.
The city should have planned on stray children IMO.<<
With all due respect, a perfect injury record for THIRTY YEARS suggests it was not an "oversite." This seems more like a "fluke" than anything else - A "perfect storm" in a teapot.
Yep. If there had only been three feet of water in the pool, nobody would have drowned.
That fluke just cost 4 people their lives. One tiny thought of safety would have had the city install the grill years ago.Instead they became careless because no one had drowned yet. Not a good way for a city to be run. But, hey I'm sure after they pay out for this little accident they'll look to other potentially dangerous structures in their city and perhaps take some steps in safety...
But then again they appear to like to see how long they can go before someone gets hurt so who knows.