Category: WTF
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French Locals to Counter Burkini Protest with Nude Swimming
Following an announcement by a group to hold a second “burkini†protest at a pool in the French city of Grenoble, counter-protesters have called on locals to swim in the pool wearing nothing at all. Last Sunday, a group of around a dozen women belonging to the Alliance Citoyenne (Citizens’ Alliance) protested at a pool…
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German tourists run over, killed at Washington swimming hole
Two German tourists visiting family in nearby Portland, Oregon, were run over and killed by a local man as they sunbathed by a swimming hole, police in Washington state said Wednesday. Police arrested David E. Croswell, 71, of Washougal, Washington, and held him on suspicion of vehicular homicide while driving under the influence of intoxicants…
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‘I’m not a racist’ | Man blames autism for calling police on black women at swimming pool
A man called police on two separate groups of black women at an apartment complex, and the ladies believe their race played a factor.
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Alligator Found Swimming Around With Knife In Head
The American alligator populates nearly every swamp, lake and river (and occasional kitchen) in the southeastern US. But when Erin Weaver spotted one swimming near her Houston home, she suspected it was the one in danger.
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My Intestines Got Sucked Out In A Swimming Pool | TRULY
A horrific swimming pool accident left a teenager without her intestines and unable to eat food for the last 10 years. When she was five-years-old, Salma Bashir was playing in a baby swimming pool in Alexandria, Egypt. She sat on the pool’s suction valve and the force was so strong that it ripped her small…
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Controversy brewing over ‘adults only’ swim time in Gaithersburg community
No more adult swim at your neighborhood pool. The news is about to make this the best summer ever for kids at Quince Orchard Park, but the adults who wait each hour for that quiet relaxation time —- you’re not going to like this. People in the neighborhood along Great Seneca Highway were very confused…
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Do You Have What It Takes to Be a Mailboat Jumper?
Lake Geneva, a town on Geneva Lake in Wisconsin, is the home of many houseboat residents. They roam about the lake, but have their mail delivered to individual mailboxes on docks. The mailboat approaches each dock. At the front is the mailboat jumper jumps off, runs to the mailbox, takes the outgoing mail, puts in…
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After double lot sold to separate owners, one of them erects fence through pool and garage
An Orlando homeowner owned a second lot next to the house. He added a pool that straddled the property lines. Then, following foreclosure, the two lots were sold to different owners, one of whom erected a fence. Over the pool. Through the garage. Via boingboing
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Mother breastfeeding in public swimming pool told to get out of the water
Rebecca Robertson explains what happened at Wellington Regional Aquatic Centre in Kilbirnie.