Even if lunch is hard to keep down.
"Lapsed pool permit, scores of questions; Inspectors failed to see body at site; neighbors mourn Fall River woman" by Peter Schworm and Ben Wolford, Globe Staff | Globe Correspondent / July 1, 2011
FALL RIVER - The permit for the state-run swimming pool where a woman’s body went unnoticed for more than two days this week had expired six months ago. A city health inspector who examined it Tuesday determined the water was cloudy, but did not see her remains resting on the bottom.
Well, if this doesn't prove the total failure of the state I do not know what does.
Yup, they have millions a month for debt service to banks that sold them bad deals; they have millions for well-connected corporations that make campaign kickbacks; and millions to continue their lavish political lifestyles at taxpayer expense -- but the THINGS YOU NEED are NOWHERE to be FOUND, INCOMPETENT, or CUT!!
The pool had not been inspected in about a year, and its permit had expired Dec. 31, the city’s mayor, William Flanagan, said yesterday. He would not elaborate on the permitting process.
Flanagan put two inspectors, who had stopped by the pool Monday, on paid administrative leave and ordered the immediate inspection of 21 public and semipublic pools in the city, including hotel pools.
Lifeguards and swimmers who were at the pool Monday and Tuesday told investigators the water had become murky since Sunday, raising the grisly possibility the body’s decomposition may have been contributing to the decreasing clarity.
“The water got murkier and murkier,’’ said Gregg Miliote, a spokesman for the Bristol district attorney’s office, which is investigating the death of 36-year-old Marie Joseph.
Said Flanagan, “We will determine what the inspector meant when he put ‘cloudy’ ’’ in the report.
Two dozen state pools with depths of more than 2 feet will remain closed while officials review safety procedures. Most pools, other than the one in Fall River, are expected to reopen this weekend.
I wouldn't be going swimming anywhere in Boston.
The pool was inspected Tuesday, just hours before Joseph’s body was pulled from the water. She had last been seen by a child going down a slide into the water Sunday afternoon.
The details that became available only deepened the mystery of how so many people, including teams of lifeguards and throngs of swimmers at the popular pool, could have failed to spot her body for so long. It raised sharp questions about whether those responsible for safety at the pool, from staff to city inspectors to state officials, may have neglected their duties....
We are talking state government here, right?
That is WHAT THEY DO here in Massachusetts!!!
Residents of Fall River and angry friends of Joseph’s said the incident nearly defied belief, and a top state official blamed the lapse on a systematic breakdown of proper procedures....
Yeah, IT SURE DOES, and I AM SICK of LAME-ASS EXCUSES from LOOTING STATE OFFICIALS, sorry!!
Is this how the great, self-righteous, liberal Democrat state of Massachusetts acquits itself?
Then I swam into a WALL, readers.
The article goes on to inform us that the woman was Haitian, and the state says there was no health risk from swimming in a pool with a decomposing body clouding up the water.
I hope you can swim through the BG screen, readers.
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