re: Saturday afternoon shooting inside Stuttgart AR community pool (SIAP)

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I’ve shot ducks in Stuttgart, that’s all I’ve got

Yet teachers get blamed for not being able to teach, this is beyond fixable

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What’s left? Snow skiing?

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Fly fishing is still on lockdown.

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If I learned anything from living in an HOA subdivision, Its that trouble will find its way to a community pool.

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Yep. When we lived in Bridgeland outside of Houston there was a nice community pool. That’s the place you found out exactly how many trashy families could afford the neighborhood. Bad enough our good friends there built a backyard pool after one trip.

The neighborhood I used to live in had a "community" pool. However, you had to be a member of the aquatic association to access the pool. New membership required being sponsored by a current member and yearly dues. This wasn't a country club type pool. It was an older pool (built in the early 80's) that sat adjacent to a public park. The members were all middle-class people who lived in the neighborhood. There were never any issues at the pool. But that was ONLY because the guy who operated it did so with an iron fist to make sure access was only limited to members and their paid guest.

One afternoon a group of "teens" and their family members showed up and began swimming. The HS kids who worked at the pool didn't really press them to make sure they were members. When the guy who operated the pool showed up he immediately asked if they were members. Of course, they weren't. He explained to them that only members or paying guest of members were allowed to access the facility. That first lead to them going around harassing the members their asking them to tell the owner they were the member's "guests". The operator put that to a stop quickly and told them they had to leave. That led to cries of "racism". The operator didn't budge and the non-members eventually left.

Those problems didn't arise all that often because they were always put down quickly by the operator, without any care for being accused of any sort of "ism". The rules were simple. Members only. But had the pool not had a strong operator the 7 non-members one day would have grown to 15 the next, then on, and on.

There is nothing they do not make worse. The current path we are on is unsustainable. Prepare to act accordingly.

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Make a rule. No one under 18 without a parent/adult. And the kid must leave with the adult. No drop offs!

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And if its 80 degrees outside, and you're wearing a hoodie, you can't come in.