Body found in public pool 2 days after victim drowned

[Graham Kennedy]

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The body of a Fall River woman was discovered floating in a state run pool late Tuesday night, two days after she apparently drowned in that same pool.

Police say lifeguards were on duty and people were swimming in the Veterans Memorial pool at Lafayette Park Sunday, Monday and Tuesday and it appears no one noticed the dead body.

[Mikey]

In their defense, the employees are called "lifeguards," not "deathguards."

How can you not notice the Natalie Wood impression going on in a pool in which you are swimming? Did people just assume that she had really good breath control?

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

I have little to add beyond what Mikey said. I mean, seriously? Seriously?! How in the blue hell do you not notice that?!

[Nickswitz]

I hope that the lifeguards were all fired. I as a lifeguard have to watch for everything, and I watch, everything, if someone doesn't come up for 30 seconds I watch to make sure their alive, more than a minute I go in, and that's protocol for where I work. How the hell can you not notice a woman just lying around for 2 days! Especially the openers and closers. How did they miss that she wasn't listening to a word that they said.

[Lighthawk]

I can't honestly believe that everyone failed to notice. Which really brings up a more disturbing notion, that people actually chose to ignore the fact that there was a dead body in the pool with them.

Brings to mind that one incident were a guy got ran over in a major city, the driver took off, and people just kept walking on by while he lay in the street screaming for someone to help him.

I mean seriously, the hell people?

[Griffin]

Brings to mind that one incident were a guy got ran over in a major city, the driver took off, and people just kept walking on by while he lay in the street screaming for someone to help him.

I mean seriously, the hell people?

That's the Bystander effect

[Lighthawk]

I know, but still...the hell people!

[Nickswitz]

Yeah, it's sad that so very many people will do that, they will just stand by, I for one, have a problem just standing by. I've never had a situation where I have had to physically intervene (other than work as a lifeguard) but I've had moments where I yelled at people for doing what they were doing (harassing a kid) and stood between them and the kid, they just scattered. I've also helped people up, assisted them in picking up stuff they dropped when they fell, that kind of stuff. And I've seen it happen where people will just stand around and do nothing about stuff happening, sadly it's very common among people.

[Graham Kennedy]

I could buy people walking past a body in a public place, but people were actually swimming around in the pool with a corpse. Even if they didn't give a crap about the woman, who chooses to swim in a pool with a corpse in it?!

[Lighthawk]

No amount of chlorine in the water could make that any less disgusting.

[Mikey]

I could buy people walking past a body in a public place, but people were actually swimming around in the pool with a corpse. Even if they didn't give a crap about the woman, who chooses to swim in a pool with a corpse in it?!

Are you trying to mock my family's religious rituals?


















(I'm kidding, dammit!)

[Tyyr]

Actually, there are ways this could occur and not really be anyone's fault. I've been in pools before where they'd put out a large tarp like covering. It'd float on top of the water to retain heat during cooler periods or just to keep debris out. If they didn't retract the tarp completely (which is a horrible idea and just dangerous) and this woman's body was under it then it could have been out of sight and gone unnoticed until someone retracted the tarp.

I honestly can't imagine life guards working at the pool, closing things up at the end of the day, and seeing a body floating and not saying something to someone.

[Mikey]

I can't buy the idea that someone, in that case, put out the tarp without noticing the dead body which bumped it while it was being arrayed. Vince Coleman, maybe, but not a dead body in a pool.

[McAvoy]

Perhaps the body somehow got underneath the tarp?

I see this as the only explanation. No one would see a body and then jump right in.

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

It still beggars belief this happened, yet it did. Dear lord...