I live on the Mississippi, surrounded by ponds, creeks, and streams.

[SINthysist]

I live on top of a high hill, inaccessable except for a quarter mile of 50 degree incline, in a place which cannot be seen from the road.

Yet my insurance company deems my swimming pool a risk to passing toddlers and hence my home is uninsurable unless I put a chain-link fence around, not the pool, but my DECK!

This is a fawked-up world!

 

[SINthysist]

I forgot. It has to have a padlocked gate.

Of course, the driveway and landscaping go right up to the edge of the pool, but appearantly that's okay.

Toddlers don't drown from driveways. Just decks.

Fawked to the max!

 

[Guest]

 

[SINthysist]

I have nothing against pool fences...

I just thought the Koy pond might represent more of a danger to a toddler. Those fish are pretty!

And the sides are sloped and slippery like one of nature's amazing animal traps.

And that seems to be okay, too!

 

[Guest]

 

[SINthysist]

I have no toddler and good fences to keep the neighbor's goats out!

Sometimes you gotta look beyond the actuarial tables.

A man's gotta be able to think on his feet, or we're doomed to be controlled. Always blindly following orders. The German defense.

 

[SINthysist]

You have a good point. Fences to kids are not deterents. Merely challenges.

 

[Georgia Girl]

Does it have to be chain link or can it be a decorative fence?

 

[SINthysist]

I'm hoping on the latter.

But, working against me is two recent drownings in town.

Another example of punishing the whole for the mistakes of a few.