Posted on 07/15/2012 4:55:55 AM PDT by jimbo123
When the McCarren Park Pool in Williamsburg reopened last month after 28 years of dormancy, it was hailed as a civic achievement and summer oasis for Brooklynites. But the city’s largest public pool has been plagued by violent brawls that pit teens against lifeguards and even forced the NYPD to shut it down on June 29. Lifeguards are forbidden to talk to the media, but one spoke to the The Post’s Annie Karni about life in the aquatic war zone.
Every morning when I wake up, I pray for rain. Because if it’s sunny and 90 degrees at 11 a.m., when my shift starts, there will be 1,500 people lined up around the block to get in and just 30 lifeguards to watch over them. And a lot of them are coming in drunk and high.
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We get paid $13.55 an hour, plus overtime. So far, I’m sticking it out, and it’s not bad pay, but it’s a hard job. There’s something going on every day, and it’s not just violence.
One of the lifeguards called me over while I was watching the baby pool the other day. “There’s poop in the pool,” he said. “It’s scattered everywhere.” I saw one kid step on a piece. I tried to tell the parents to get out, but no one listened to me. I had to yell at them that there was feces in the pool.
We cleared out the pool and made everyone stand on the sides. The rule is five minutes for poop and 25 minutes for throw-up. Luckily, there were two new lifeguards, so we made them clean it up.
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Seniority has its privilege!
George Zimmerman was nowhere to be found. Meaning look at yourselves and make corrections instead of railing against people outside your racial or ethnic group
They can try Midnight Water-Polo. Keep the kids off the streets at night.
....“Flushing Fifty Million Down the Hudson”.
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I wonder what kind of trail of favors would appear if someone were to follow the money on this $50 million.
I live in NYC...why?
The club we belonged to when the kids were little had a full size Olympic pool. Any poop in that pool would shut it down for 3 or 4 days at a time! Five minutes is nuts and a serious public health hazard.
Nanny Bloomberg is the pits but wait until you get your new lesbian mayor in. She is heavily favored to win
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Enjoyed your post. I’ve visited the Bahamas. The Blacks speak the King’s English. They are upwardly mobile. I would imagine the poor Blacks in Haiti have better English skills and aspirations than these pool trash in NYC.
For 50 million, NYC could have built two $25 million dollar pools. Separate but Equal. And I’m serious.
Enjoyed your post. I’ve visited the Bahamas. The Blacks speak the King’s English. They are upwardly mobile. I would imagine the poor Blacks in Haiti have better English skills and aspirations than these pool trash in NYC.
For 50 million, NYC could have built two $25 million dollar pools. Separate but Equal. And I’m serious.
They are not used here, because you can get clean water.
My daughter bought a bag them to Haiti last year. They look cute and all...but without them , many of the kids my daughter worked with would die from some water borne disease.
And the money to buy them was raised through the church.
For NY readers, no word is necessary....
For NY readers, no word is necessary....
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