Should people be sent to jail for peeing in the pool?

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Should people be sent to jail for peeing in the pool?

IDK how it would be enforced. And apparently peeing in the pool is very common, if you swim in a public pool its safe to assume there is pee in it, that is actually what that 'swimming pool' smell is at least according to something I was reading or watching.

I don't think peeing in pools should result in inprisonment. However I've never peed in a pool before, even when I was little. I have more respect than that.

Being sent to jail for it seems excessive to me, and like Sweetleaf said, I don't know how it would be enforced - I don't know how you could tell a particular person had done it unless someone else was close enough to feel the warmth. It's gross to think about and unnecessary when public pools typically will have bathrooms within a few feet of the pool, but then again, if you swim in natural bodies of water, well, where do you think the aquatic animals do their business? At least pools have chlorine to kill much of the germs.

Imprisoned? No. I do think it's wildly disgusting and assume anyone other than a small child refrains for doing it. I know that I'm probably very wrong on that though.

I think I'm a germophobe. One of the reasons I don't really enjoy swimming in public pools, water parks, etc is the idea that there is probably a lot more in the water than I would even assume. Many people don't keep clean, don't shower before going into a pool, etc. I can't help but not only think of urine in pools but also to think of particulates of feces and then I start to get a bit of anxiety about it.

I was a lifeguard in high school, the experience was enough to dissuade me from ever using a public pool. Peeing is nothing, wait until you see floaters and diapers popping up from the deep end at the end of the day. That's where it gets disturbing. The chlorine will wipe away virtually all the bacteria, but it can't wash the image out of my mind.

If people apparently pee in pools, how come you can't go in a pool if you're on your period unless you have a tampon?

No, only for defecating.

My dad used to give each of us kids a handful of sorted M&Ms, in a different color for each kid. They he'd tell us that if the water changed color he would know exactly who did it and that the kid would not only get a 'whupping', but he or she would be banned from the pool for the rest of the summer.

Hilarious. I bet you have many funny dad stories.

YES

When he was sober and not in his depressive or manic phases, he could be fun. But those instances became fewer and farther between as time went on.

Anyway ... Pool smell is due, not to chlorine, but to chloramines, chemical compounds that build up in pool water when it is improperly treated. Chloramines result from the combination of two ingredients: (a) chlorine disinfectants and (b) perspiration, oils and urine that enter pools on the bodies of swimmers.

Link to Article.

Maybe banned from swimming pools would be fair enough.

OMG, I wonder if I should report this post, just kidding.

No cos it's probably just little kids or severely disabled people or really old people.

Everyone should get into age appropriate trouble if they pee into the pool from the side though...

Not sure if anyone would actually do that unless they were drunk.

No, but peeing in the library book drop receptacle is another story altogether!