Green Pool Owners Could Face Fines, Jail

[blondeatlast]

My own Maricopa County's fun-loving sheriff Joe (Arpaio) is up to his high-spirited hijinks...

115 degrees, 75% humidity today, and the homeless shelters and senior centers are over capacity, but sheriff Joe will protect you from green pools!

Green Pool Owners Could Face Fines, Jail

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/june2005/180605poolowners.htm

[madrchsod]

1. your diabetes poster just reminded me

of the amount of people i know who have diabetes. at least 5 people that i know of in my dept of about 20 people who have this disease. it`s a horrible disease that does not get the recognition that it really deserves

[sakabatou]

2. "Listen; let's not do anything that immidately benneficial...

So let's arrest green pool owners!"

:sarcasm:

[Spider Jerusalem]

3. Jail for not chlorinating your pool? Okay...

although compared to most of the other things I've heard about Arpaio, this is nothing...one gets the impression that he's some sort of power-mad fascist.

[blondeatlast]

5. Not power mad; attention mad. Probably both.

He's a sick damn SOB.

What's sad is that I know people who are proud of the fact that Amnesty International considers him to be worthy of their attention.

I love Arizona, but I HATE Maricopa County, source of all that is wrong with the state.

[City Lights]

16. Maricopa County sucks fer sure!

_{sheriff joe} is world famous too. We were in Europe earlier this summer and met a guy from Northern Ireland. The first thing he said to us when he heard we were from Maricopa County was, "Isn't that where _{sheriff joe} is from?" How embarrassing. :blush:

[Bouncy Ball]

8. Have I mentioned how much I love your quote?

And who is that in the drawing?

[Spider Jerusalem]

10. That's Spider Jerusalem...

main character of the graphic novel "Transmetropolitan", by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson...'s where I got my username. Spider is a chainsmoking, foulmouthed, drug-abusing outlaw journalist (sort of a 23rd century Hunter S. Thomson, in a way) who lives in a rather dystopian future that's a lot like our present, only more so (imagine consumerism and cultural shallowness taken to the logical extreme, helped along by very advanced technology). "Trannsmetropolitan" is ultimately the story of his crusade to bring down the grinning, psychotic, power-mad and brutally corrupt President of the United States. :)

Edit for Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1563894459/qid=1122743327/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/103-1170068-9071816?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

[Bouncy Ball]

11. I might just have to check that out.

It would be my first graphic novel. Thanks!

[Spider Jerusalem]

12. Definitely worth the read...

one of the better graphic novels I've read in the past ten years or so.

There's some beautifully vicious dialogue, too. One of my favourites is a scene where Spider says to the President "You pissed in the economy, you shat on the law, and you wiped your ass with the truth. You ought to be peeled, salted, driven through the streets by mental patients with spiked planks, and used as a toilet and jizz-catcher by diseased baboons in heat. At best." Heh.

[Bouncy Ball]

13. Oh MY.

I'd like that to be on pay-per-view, please.

Yes, going to have to check that out for sure now.

[Spider Jerusalem]

15. check your PM (n/t)

[mike_c]

4. as someone who does mosquito research...

...I think this is a great idea. It's incredibly irresponsible for people to maintain large scale mosquito breeding habitat in their backyards through simple neglect-- even natural ponds can be kept in balance and produce relatively few mosquitos. Pools like this are especially havens for the mosquito species that most competantly vector West Nile fever. Culex tarsalis and Culex pipians breed best in man-made, warm stagnant water.

[gardenista]

6. Agreed. Furthermore, green pools are a greater danger to children or

other non-competent swimmers who may accidentally fall in the pool. Harder to see them and rescue them.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

7. I agree. Unkempt pools can spread West Nile Virus and kill

[Bouncy Ball]

9. When I was a teenager, we had a neighbor who

had a big in-ground pool and he let it go. It got so bad, it eventually had water snakes, frogs (the sound at night was deafening), everything.

It was truly scary and the mosquitos in the summer? SHEER HELL.

[City Lights]

14. They should keep them clean, or drain them.

Too many kids drown in dirty water, and they are a breeding ground for mosquitoes.

I'm no fan of _{sheriff joe}, but agree with him on this one.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

17. Good, I don't want West Nile virus inhabiting my body.

Fines sound like a great idea... keep up your pool, drain your pool or get fined.

Sounds fair.