Has anyone here ever been at a public swimming pool when someone has done a poo at the pool? And if so how was it handled?

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Lostboy_91@reddit

Unfortunately I've been the person who's done a poo in the pool and it happened when I was old enough to remember it. I would have been about 9 or 10, I was quite a good swimmer and used to race so it was a training session rather that a lesson. I had a stomachache when I arrived at the pool but didn't mention it to my mum. I didn't know what it was but certainly didn't think I needed a poo because it wasn't the same feeling. When the session started it didn't go away and I could tell it was affecting me but I tried to ignore it. After about 15 minutes I was half way through a length I farted and it just came out. It came straight out of my swimming trunks and the boy who'd been swimming behind me screamed. There was no way I could hide that it was me and I was inconsolable as I was led away while the other kids got to wait by the side of the pool.

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BigWesDoobner@reddit

Nothing better than dropping a deuce in a hot tub

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Own_District_5095@reddit

It depends what type of poop. Nice solid boy... Empty pool. Clear it out. Check the chlorine levels. Let everyone back in. If its a sloppy one caused by illness. Pool cleared. Closed. Hyperchlorinated and closed for however long it takes for the pool to cycle x amount of times. Usually 12 to 24 hours. If you work there.. It's always the latter. Even if it's not 😉

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Independent-Ad-3385@reddit

As a former parent of a toddler I need to tell you that nice solid boys do not stay that way when they hit large bodies of water.

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misterlasu@reddit

“Former parent of a toddler”…too many shits in the bath and got rid?

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Independent-Ad-3385@reddit

Despite many moments when I was tempted to, I am a current parent of a smelly teenager.

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Pengetalia@reddit

This guy knows his ppo manual

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Hippopotamus_Critic@reddit

I'm going to pretend you meant to type poop manual

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Wild_Wolverine9526@reddit

I genuinely thought they accidentally put two p’s instead of 2 o’s until I read you comment. (And now my comment sounds like a Two Ronnies sketch)

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Pengetalia@reddit

I mean a good chapter of it is about poop 😂

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mickki4@reddit

The Bristol scale is real

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Miserable-March-1398@reddit

Code brown.

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TwentySevenMusicUK@reddit

I was there when Matt Townsend poo’d in the pool. He’s a pool pooer.

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Electronic-Industry4@reddit

Just do a Vince and ignore and move on even tho he was a lifeguard 🤣🤣

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MickyG1982@reddit

Quite a regular thing to see one standing on end at the bottom of the pool on the vents back in the day. On a side note, if you have a strong smell of chlorine at your local pool it means the water is full of piss...

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Ecstatic_Meeting7161@reddit

Not a turd I don't think, but we were on holiday in Mexico and saw a great commotion and discovered that one of the all day drinkers in the swim up bar had spewed in there - the pool was evacuated, drained and cleaned. Normally it would just be full of piss from the dirty gets who never leave...

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Appropriate-Bad-9379@reddit

On holiday in Goa a few years ago and this woman starts shitting in the hotel pool. It’s mainly diarrhoea, with some cornflake type bits in the mix. She just carried on with her breaststroke, with a big trail of poo in her wake. The pool emptied of other bathers pretty quickly, but the woman just sauntered off ( unaware or brazening it out?). The staff tried to fish the poo out with a net, but most of it had dispersed by then. We all insisted that the pool be drained and disinfected, but they drained it down by about a foot, then topped it up, just diluting it. Didn’t use the pool for the rest of the holiday…

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ConfectionCommon3518@reddit

I can remember it being a joke in the 80s to smuggle in a lion bar and drop it at the deep end, as the protocol was to drain the pool and thus waste a lot of time and effort which sounded funny to us young kids at the time.

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Physical_Orchid3616@reddit

if parents of young children were more effing responsible, these incidents wouldnt happen. one little brat's mess ruins it for everyone, for hours if not the entire day. it's NOT okay!!

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CJ_BARS@reddit

Only one time, and they were really good about it tbf.. They just asked me to leave.

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ejdinallo@reddit

😂

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BronL-1912@reddit

"How was it handled"? eeuw!

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Smooth-Resource5792@reddit

Was at the gym the other day and it had a lot of daddy/ daughters going swimming. One dad asked his child 'do you want to go to the toilet before we swim?" Child answered 'not yet'. Hmmm, decided not to the pool that day! 😅

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Flat_Fault_7802@reddit

3rd year at secondary school. Class split into 3. Better swimmers at the deep end. Decent in the middle. Practically non swimmers at the shallow end . There's 2 of them. Teacher come through from the shower area .Looks at the pool and barks right 3/10 everyone out the pool. We wonder what's going on. Everyone gets out the pool and stands at the side. Teacher proceeds to ask what the fuck is that. Points to a shit floating at the shallow end. Its got to be one of the non swimmers but none of them admit it. Our class never got in the pool again for the rest of the time at school. They had to drain the pool and clean it and with no one admitting it we all were blamed. It still gets mentioned when we get together for a night out or in group chats. But Chris Gallazzi or Dek Dignan we know it was one of you.

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Indigo-Waterfall@reddit

Yes, a few times. Normally a child. We had to all evacuate the pool and someone came by with a net and scooped it out. I can’t remember if we had to go home or were allowed to enter the pool again afterwards though.

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CommercialAd2154@reddit

When I was about 9, our end of term fun lesson at the pool was cancelled because someone shat in the pool, I was raging

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LeTrolleur@reddit

I've worked for a local authority that managed some pools. When referring to a situation like this over the radio, they actually did call it a "code brown", and no it never failed to make me laugh.

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BobBobBobBobBobDave@reddit

I was at Center Parcs once when a kid pooed themselves on the slide in the subtropical swimming paradise. They shut it down sharpish, ushered everyone to other areas, and cordoned it off, and then about half an hour later it was reopened, I assume after some cleaning. Very efficient.

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-Utopia-amiga-@reddit

Centre.

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BobBobBobBobBobDave@reddit

Well, no. It was originally a Dutch company, and they don't use English spelling. "Parcs" is also a bit of a giveaway.

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Trick-Reindeer-7393@reddit

It used to be Sporthuiscentrum

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-Utopia-amiga-@reddit

Well, the Dutch should know better!

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Guiseppe_Martini@reddit

Dutch oven.

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imtheorangeycenter@reddit

We should all know better than trying to pull that off more than once.

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SlayGains@reddit

Matt Townsend did a poo in the pool

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Historical_Pin2806@reddit

Yes, when we were on holiday in Spain. They closed the pool for the day.

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TobsterVictorSierra@reddit

Depends on the consistency. Are you talking clinkers or clouds?

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riscos3@reddit

I saw someone once with the shits evacuate himself in a pool, it was like a squid releasing ink... nasty

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TobsterVictorSierra@reddit

I bet the pool was then evacuated with similar alacrity.

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geekgirI@reddit

Poorly. Poo-ly. Pool-y??

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Miserable_Future6694@reddit

On holiday it's happened a few times. I've yet to see the submarine though, it's just a few screams. Everybody evacuated the pool while a lifeguard fishes it out then your straight back in

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Guiseppe_Martini@reddit

Not poop but when we were younger a friend of my brother (around 10 or 11 years old) was in a pool when another kid was throwing up. He was swimming through the diced carrot to get to the side of the pool to get out.

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Venomenon-@reddit

I was on holiday somewhere, some kid was racing around the poolside, he slipped, cracked his jaw open on the edge of the pool. Blood everywhere. He got took to hospital, came back the next day with his head all wrapped up, but still enjoying his holiday. It was really quite traumatic for everyone involved, but he had been really loud an annoying before he fell.

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riscos3@reddit

Floater! Followed by panicked screams and the tidal wave caused by people desperate to get out and then it gets sucked under... ...cue the jaws music

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Junipher90@reddit

When I was a kid staying at a butlins / haven place (I don't remember which) we left the cabin and went to go swimming only to be told the pool was closed because someone had pooped in the pool and it was shut for the day, so we went on go carts Instead. But that one time was the only time we ever came across anything like that, reading some of these comments though apparently it happens quite a bit 😞

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EuphoricFly1044@reddit

No, but my friend at work told me what happened when his son pooped in the pool..... They had to drain it!!! FYI, Tunbridge wells sports centre - St John's road about 17 years ago

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paintingmad@reddit

I was at centerparcs when we were prevented going in the pool with the lifeguard saying there had been “a fecal release” I saw him a few minutes later with a little fishing net.

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NoWayGetOut@reddit

Yes used to work in a fun pool as a teen, the life guards used to shout 'Mouse!' to clear the pool and then scoop the floating poop out. I have no idea what this was more acceptable but it worked. It was the year 2000 though.

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redsandsfort@reddit

with gloves

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Jazzlike-Basil1355@reddit

My pool closes for 24 hrs post poo incidents

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Typh00n74@reddit

With gloves on hopefully

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TinnitusWaves@reddit

I was a lifeguard at a council run pool during my teenage years. Yes. I have seen it happen. And yes, I had to get the big scoop to fish it out of the pool. Pool was evacuated and closed for the day. I didn’t deal with the filters and chemicals but I imagine they “ shocked “ the pool that night.

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NortonBurns@reddit

I have horrible visions of the culprit being identified by what I can only think to call a "reverse Cinderella"

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Sufficient-Treat-794@reddit

Someone took a dump in the “jacuzzi” section of the pool , we managed to evacuate. So we got front row seats of it coming out a small waterfall that went into the main pool and breaking into about 10 or so pieces. They had to fish it out, I don’t think we went back in that day lol. (The black grates on the left of the blue submarine) https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g1007643-d12127612-Reviews-Tandridge_Trust_Leisure_Culture-Oxted_Surrey_England.html

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lubbockin@reddit

we were swimming in the sea as kids and a turd floated by my mate..

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SleipnirSolid@reddit

One hit me in the face at Blackpool

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lubbockin@reddit

Ugh…

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Praetorian_1975@reddit

Perry … is that you, it’s me Kevin [it’s a floater](https://youtu.be/GUHYjmBFxm0?feature=shared)

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lubbockin@reddit

It was funny and disgusting at the same time..

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AliceMorgon@reddit

Same thing. Evacuated the pool, deep clean, reopened the next day. Only that time no one saw the poop until it was too late and it was already in the water for Lord knows how long…

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Odd_Survey_8792@reddit (OP)

Oh dang. If you don’t mind me asking was it to you who did the poop?

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AliceMorgon@reddit

It was not.

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Odd_Survey_8792@reddit (OP)

Ah yeah all good. I didn’t do mine either!

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G30fff@reddit

Hmm... 🤔

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Praetorian_1975@reddit

They said ‘evacuated the pool’ not ‘evacuated in the pool’ 😉🤣

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Historical_Visual629@reddit

I remember being on holiday last year, was at the adults pool…not too big of a pool. Some man had been ill, and everyone saw a cloud of brown. He got out and ran off. Everyone got out. 10 minutes later new people got in. The hotel staff was told but they said they couldn’t see anything so left it. I’m never going into a pool again.

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Sweaty_Sheepherder27@reddit

Yep, was years ago when I was a kid. I watched the lifeguard fish it out with a net while the wave machine was going. No evacuation of the pool at all. Later when I worked in a pool, we were taught you evacuate the pool etc.

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Mrausername@reddit

Pools even have an abreviation for it - AFR (Accidental Faecal Release) How do they know they aren't DFRs? My friend's a local councillor and gets reports from the pools where they report on the number of AFR incidents.

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Icy-Belt-8519@reddit

Apparently it happened at the pool by me, the pool was closed 2 weeks to empty clean and refill, the notices said 'sorry closed for cleaning' I always wonder if thats what actually happened, or if it was another reason, like surely that's what the chlorine is for, it wasn't a small pool either Not the best luck though, opened for three days, mad storm, broke the partially glass roof, had to close for a month! 🤦‍♂️ Our school was connected and we got 3 days off school for it cause roof debris made a mess so we were well happy 😂

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These-Lie-5854@reddit

I think my daughter does a poo in the pool at her swimming lessons most weeks tbh. However, bit of a different scenario as she is a baby, is wearing a swim nappy and happy nappy and is there for a baby swim class. I have a good shower after the class each week and try not to think about how many poos the 10 or so babies in her class did while I was in that water.

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non-hyphenated_@reddit

With a net

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Praetorian_1975@reddit

Poor Annette was she the work experience lady 🤔

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Praetorian_1975@reddit

I’d really hope people are not handling other peoples poo’s in the pool 😳 I’m sure there must be scoops or buckets for that sort of thing. ……. Tannoy announcement at the local pool, ‘code brown in the main pool, code brown. Supervisor dookie to the main pool Immediately’ 🤣

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SupermarketMission46@reddit

Nope, once saw a mars bar in the toilet though

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Still_Wrap4910@reddit

Not technically public, but my kids go to lessons at a school pool, and the lessons have been cancelled more often than I would have expected due to this, or vomit in the pool. Happens at least once a term.

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evolveandprosper@reddit

It wasn't handled. Like the one described, it was pulled out using a net on the end of a pole.

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Odd_Survey_8792@reddit (OP)

Did you do the poo?

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Marcuse0@reddit

I recall this happening one time at Butlins when I was a kid. All that happened was they cleared out the pool and nobody could use it for a while. I've also experienced cancelled sessions of a baby swim class because of accidents, but frankly that's not unexpected because the classes were literally for babies.

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Violet351@reddit

Yes, they sent a life guard in to collect to poo (he was a friend from school) and they stayed open

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dualdee@reddit

Username checks out.

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Odd_Survey_8792@reddit (OP)

It does?

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Mikon_Youji@reddit

Well this is an odd survey, no?

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Odd_Survey_8792@reddit (OP)

Like it is sure, but at the same time the subreddit is AskaBrit and it’s not like I’m breaking any rules for asking this question?

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Kandosii-117@reddit

they’re just making a joke

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Odd_Survey_8792@reddit (OP)

Yeah fair

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Mikon_Youji@reddit

I think the person was just making a joke.

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Odd_Survey_8792@reddit (OP)

Yeah good point aye

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pakcross@reddit

My eldest's swimming lessons were cancelled for a spell as a child hadn't been wearing a nappy in the pool, that was a full drain out job! When we went for pre-natal classes, we were told to bring a sieve with us if we wanted a water birth due to the risk of the mother pooing. It became known as 'The elusive poo-sieve'.

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MagicBez@reddit

Happened at a swimming lesson We all had to get out of the pool and some poor sod fished it out. Lesson abandoned.

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Odd_Survey_8792@reddit (OP)

Bet that felt good to get out of class

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RockSignificant@reddit

These things just have a habit of happening when your taking a pee!

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terryjuicelawson@reddit

One where it was a baby and it slipped out of their swim nappy. They scooped it out and cleared the pool. No real desire to hang around and go back in, no idea how long they close it for.

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Suspicious_Juice9511@reddit

Scoop rather than handled.

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No-Locksmith-882@reddit

With gloves.

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