Girl Seriously Injured in Swimming Pool Mishap

[Dark Donnie]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,288182,00.html

Girl Seriously Injured in Swimming Pool Mishap as Drain Pump Sucks Out Her Intestines
Thursday, July 05, 2007

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MINNEAPOLIS — A six-year-old girl has been hospitalized after a horrifying accident at a swimming pool, when she sat on an open drain and a powerful suction pump tore out part of her intestinal tract. A surgeon told the family Wednesday that part of her intestines had been lost.

Abigail Taylor was severely injured Tuesday when she sat over an open drain hole in a wading pool at the Minneapolis Golf Club, according to a posting by her family on the Caring Bridge Web site.

The posting, which has since been taken down, said it is a "medical miracle" that Taylor is still alive.

Taylor is listed in serious condition at Children's Hospital in Minneapolis. Bob Bennett, an attorney representing the family, told the St. Paul Pioneer Press she was conscious and able to speak late Tuesday but that she faces a series of surgeries with uncertain results.

Bennett alleged that the swimming pool's drain hole was improperly uncovered. An official at the golf club expressed sympathy for the family and said he didn't think anything was wrong with the pool, but referred questions to the club's attorney, who declined to comment.

Its a miracle shes still alive...

 

[Kelly]

That happens more than people know......many times each summer. Very sad.....

There are coverings that can keep this from happening, but until it becomes a nationwide regulation on all pools, this will continue to happen...

 

[Fran]

I can never look at a swimming pool the same ever again.

 

[Wolfwood]

Wait..it sucked it out through her ass? Oh my god, the whole thing is freakin' horrible.

 

[Apollo]

i remember watching stuff on the news where this girls hair was sucked off her head by a pool pump and she drowned

 

[Dark Donnie]

i remember watching stuff on the news where this girls hair was sucked off her head by a poop pump and she drowned

I just saw that on TV...talking about how dangerous these pumps are

 

[Wolfwood]

Damn, I never realized how powerful those pumps were. I'm never going near one again.

 

[Apollo]

I just saw that on TV...talking about how dangerous these pumps are

pool pump, not poop pump...you replyed before i got to fix it....

 

[Dark Donnie]

pool pump, not poop pump...you replyed before i got to fix it....

haha I just noticed that

 

[The Shredder]

Yes, she is very lucky to be alive right now with something like that happening. Wish her good luck thru her upcoming surgeries. Guess warnings of open pool drains are going up there with warning of mall escalators now.

 

[Master Chief]

Immediately thought of Chuck Palahniuk's short story "Guts".

And guess what's on his front page?

http://www.chuckpalahniuk.net/

Yeah. F**ked up. Read the short story for the health problems she'll have.

 

[Spidey-Bat]

Christ, how the hell does something in a pool do that?

 

[Ghostvirus]

WTF!!! I used to fidget with those things when I was younger!!! I didn't know they can suck out your a-hole! JESUS!

 

[The Chairman]

Wow. My prayers go out. Terrible, terrible occurence.

 

[AhabTheArab]

oh.

 

[Ben Urich]

Immediately thought of Chuck Palahniuk's short story "Guts".

And guess what's on his front page?

http://www.chuckpalahniuk.net/

Yeah. F**ked up. Read the short story for the health problems she'll have.

 

[Abaddon]

I've heard horrible stories like this. She's very fortunate.

 

[nosebleed.]

Poor little girl.

 

[gap5ewl]

That's horrible. I just read guts and that poor girl is gonna suffer throughout her life. My parents are putting in a pool in our new house but now I'm scared to go through with it

 

[SuperHeroHype]

And my family gives me a hard time about not putting a pool in our backyard. No thanks.

 

[Sassy1]

I send prayers. That is truly horrible!

 

[Jerry!]

Immediately thought of Chuck Palahniuk's short story "Guts".

And guess what's on his front page?

http://www.chuckpalahniuk.net/

Yeah. F**ked up. Read the short story for the health problems she'll have.

Yeah me too. Guess when you read something like that it never really goes away. Very grotesquely detailed is the best I can put it.

 

[imdaly]

Aw man...that sucks ass

 

[Sassy1]

Aw man...that sucks ass

Bad choice of words

 

[Dark Donnie]

It really is sad.

They had stories of this happening to other kids, obviously not this serious though. The kids have permanent suction marks on the body from the force of the pumps. Something has to be done.