Unbelievable pool accident (Warning - informative but potentially offensive)

[Incredible Hulctuary]

The uncovered pool drain literally sucked her intestines out through her rectum.

I didn't even know this was possible. In a video clip at cnn.com, her father said she wanted to be on the news so other people can know about it so it won't happen to them.

http://www.twincities.com/allheadlines/ci_6293513

A 6-year-old Edina girl was in serious condition Tuesday at Children's Hospital in Minneapolis after a harrowing accident in the kiddie pool of her family's country club.

Abigail "Abbey" Taylor was injured when she apparently sat over an open drain hole Friday evening in the wading pool of the Minneapolis Golf Club in St. Louis Park, her family wrote in an account of the incident on the Caring Bridge Web site.

The drain's powerful suction tore her intestinal tract, and a surgeon told the family that part of her intestines had been lost. The fact that she was alive was "a medical miracle," the family's account said.

The drain cover had come off, and children were playing with it, according to the account on the Web site, which provides pages for hospital patients to keep family and friends updated on their conditions.

The injury was "severe and life-altering," said Bob Bennett, a Minneapolis attorney representing the family.

Abbey, who just finished kindergarten at Concord Elementary School in Edina, was conscious and able to speak, Bennett said. He said she faces a series of surgeries and nobody can say how long she will remain in the hospital.

[Sniffer]

sick

[dinosaur]

gross! and unfathomable! just wow!

[Actuary321]

That is horrible. In lots of older pools (not the kiddy type) many people have died because they get stuck to the single drain. I believe that pool construction regs now require their be at least 2 openings to the main drain and that they be at least 6 feet apart so that a single person cannot get stuck.

I wonder if this wading pool had this problem?

[Qisoneminusp]

I actually heard rumors about this when i was a lifeguard, but i until now, i had never read an official account of this happening!!

[That Goblin]

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[persephone_ashes]

omg, i just read this and i couldn't believe it!

[Samantha]

Originally Posted by Incredible Hulctuary

The uncovered pool drain literally sucked her intestines out through her rectum. I didn't even know that was possible.

http://www.twincities.com/allheadlines/ci_6293513

My husband worked in the swimming pool industry in HS and college and this unfortunately is not unheard of. It's rare, but it has happened more times than you would think, mostly because people don't realize the danger.

[JollyGoodFCAS]

Originally Posted by That Goblin

This thread is offensive. Mods, please delete.

Better just to change the name of the thread so that people don't have to read about what happened.

[cubedbee]

Chuck Palahniuk has a NSFW story on this topic.