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The Infamous Ghetto Indoor Swimming Pool

betterthanyourboyfriend.co… — This person actually put a 3100 Gallon above ground pool in the middle of their living room. It's a actually a really hilarious story, documented with pictures.

Who dugg this? Made popular Dec 9, 2006

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  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+102http://duggmirror.com/mods/The_Infamous_Ghetto_Indoor_Swimming_Pool/
  • dielawn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+84i was gonna say thats a fire hazard, but its full of water.
  • raabco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+80water hazard
  • ldavid, on 10/12/2007, -9/+76what a stupid idea. digged.
  • scallon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+67wait, what?
  • invartact, on 10/12/2007, -3/+66whats ghetto is that after 30 Diggs, the site is down
  • peaches017, on 10/12/2007, -4/+56Return policy FTW
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+51My baby pool in the living room filled with aquarium heaters may not be as big as this but it is warm..(dont worry about my fish i made jackets for them out of sandwich baggies.)
    did not know i could get a penguin for the pool.
    I wonder if i could get one that is in color.
  • Reziarfg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+42Well, his site is probably hosted on a server held together by duct tape, band-aids, paper clips, and rubber bands. It is ghetto after all.
  • jcapogna, on 10/12/2007, -7/+48This man is genius.
  • zerodotcom, on 10/12/2007, -2/+42maybe its a house without a basement. Just a concrete slab.
  • a3r0, on 10/12/2007, -3/+43Wow, how did his floor not collapse? That weighs about 26,000 pounds - that's like two elephants!
  • hobbes252, on 10/12/2007, -0/+38I really want a penguin after reading that.
  • grachi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+35His house has got to be REALLY freakin' humid.
  • BobbyOnions, on 10/12/2007, -22/+49Ouch, get with metric people!

    Compare

    3100 gallons = 26,000 pounds

    with

    X litres = X kilograms

    Simple!
  • cornrow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+28It's me... I'm also the guy who went into the UT tunnels from a while back. It was on a concrete slab. Sometime's you've just gotta do stuff like this. Site's back up.. had to turn on caching.

    Thanks for the diggs!

    Tynan
  • clickmyface, on 10/12/2007, -3/+29an excellent question scallon!
  • hanslope, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26That ain't no ghetto, that place is f'in huge.

    It's some rich boy talkin jive.
  • thiskid, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26The guy's got a "robomower" in his back yard...
  • DigiMaso, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20It didn't end very happy....

    He never got the penguin.
  • raabco, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21I'm twice the genius you think I am, since swimming pool is actually 2 words.
  • grat2001, on 10/12/2007, -6/+24This is not ghetto, this is trailer park mentality!
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16http://www.snopes.com/critters/farce/penguins.htm
    http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://penguinwarehouse.com
    intresting to see the changes
  • Shirk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17Wonder what it would look like in there if that thing ever popped...
  • bigwyrm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15expression #1, char 24: unterminated `s' command
  • NatsuMatto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14What confuses me is that this guy obviously has the cash to buy his own huge house, and yet seems (and looks) like a pre-pubescent goofball.

    Now if you'll excuse me... the guys from "theelephantbunker.com" are delivering my baby Indian today! Hope my downstairs neighbor won't mind!


  • simpleid, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16After re-reading this comment I'm still not sure if I'm reading it correctly... maybe being up all night long isn't good for my eyes, I'll leave a comment so I can try again after some sleep...


    ...yea...
  • speezer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I had fish but the penguins ate them all.
  • raabco, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11s/swimming pool/web host
  • Sharky35, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Costco will take ANYTHING BACK...
    Well, that's their policy....
    I wonder if I should do a story on the limits of that policy? That would be fun.
  • BenWhitey, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9When I visited MIT a few months ago the tour guide said that a guy made is dorm room into a pool and he had pool parties until the administration found out and made him get rid of it.

    I think its possible, maybe even without reinforcing the floor, but I donno.

    Its cool, no matter how he did it.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Didn't you see the server on the floor? (3rd pic down)
  • msodrew, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Excellent decision making nondeterministic finite flow chart :)
  • Gunnyman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Yeah my only beef with this story is returning a ***** up moldy pool to costco.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5"I do hope your comment was meant to be fun"

    Ummm his name is AngryRepublican do you think his comment was meant to be fun?
  • starvingarvin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Please do.
  • WombatBob, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5"in the ghetto" *cartman singing*
  • thomashallock, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This ain't the first time Ty has gotten to the homepage:
    http://digg.com/tech_news/The_Secret_Tunnels_Under_UT
    http://www.betterthanyourboyfriend.com/the-secret-tunnels-under-ut.htm
  • riquiscott, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Damn this story! I read it about 10 hours ago and have now spent the day wondering if my floor could hold an indoor pool (house built on a crawl space, not slab)

    GRRRRRR

    Why do I get the feeling that curiosity is going to kill my livingroom...
  • Zeush8su, on 10/12/2007, -8/+10That dude doesn't live in the ghetto,I didn't see any roaches anywhere.He's just some knuckle head with more money than brains.
  • Sumyunguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@bobbyonions: I prefer to measure in pints.
    "A pint's a pound the world around" tis true, and just think of all the Guinness it would take to fill that sucker!

    BTW, this site is much more enjoyable with NoScript turned off :)
  • lemorex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Imagine you wake up one morning with your entire house flooded by penguin pool water...with no penguin.
  • friedman420, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I thought thier explanation was perfectally reasonable.

    However if I was the guy working there, I'd probably tell them to go ***** themselves.
  • antdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://duggmirror.com/mods/The_Infamous_Ghetto_Indoor_Swimming_Pool/ for referrers blocked.
  • state08, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5I was expecting that story to end in disaster. Something along the lines of the Penguin tear the pool up, and causing it to leak - or maybe his first floor falling through the ground.

    It ended too happily. Oh well.
  • felderado, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2it's not sed, it's a standard regular expression, which also happens to be available via SED. It's welcome syntax in vi / vim for example.
  • zip000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1FTA:

    "...It was as if immaculate sucking had occured [sic]"

    I couldn't have said it better myself!
  • AngryRepublican, on 10/12/2007, -24/+25Hey, Bobby Onions!

    We don't take too kindly to you types round here. Metric is for socialist eurotrash and pinko bastards!

    Also, we have google converter, so we could use any measurment we want. God bless the USA.
  • kendawg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://img92.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pwntnb0.jpg
  • SgtHulka, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Tynan, please come here for a minute... Why are my pictures curling under the glass? And what is this white flaky stuff peeling off the wall?
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