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- vroom101, on 10/11/2007, -14/+299more heartbreaking news on Digg.com...keep this up and we're going to need an anonymous diggers-only therapy category where we can vent, cry, dig through the emotions, and then recharge for the next story.
- rjc5056, on 10/11/2007, -4/+190This is more common than people realize. One of the short stories in Chuck Palahniuk's (Fight Club, Choke) latest book, Haunted, deals with kids who sit on vents like this while they masturbate. Now THAT is ***** up.
- meshman, on 10/11/2007, -1/+147Oh my God I saw a TV thing on this once. Not this girl but another kid. It's a horrible thing. She won't be able to eat real food again and... ugh. It's horrible. Poor thing.
- Inputnamehere, on 10/11/2007, -1/+98http://www.seizureandy.com/stuff/guts.html
That's the link to the Chuck Paluhniuk short story. - airwalkery2k, on 10/11/2007, -2/+93Is it just me, or do the details of the story make other people shift their position around in their seat?
- satx, on 10/11/2007, -5/+96This is ***** horrid.
- ferggo, on 10/11/2007, -1/+60I've been afraid to go near the drain in a pool my whole life.
Now I know why! - relaxeder, on 04/17/2009, -3/+53OH MY *****
- z28hokie, on 10/11/2007, -0/+46That's why a lot of new pools have twin drains feeding the same line...it greatly reduces the risk of someone getting stuck or something like this happening.
- mookiemookie, on 10/11/2007, -0/+42I thought of that story as soon as I read this. I remember reading that when it was in Playboy a couple years ago, and it was very disturbing to say the least.
- uglyredhonda, on 10/11/2007, -0/+41When I trained to be a lifeguard, we had a day-long seminar where a lawyer came and went through case after case of total horror story. The most memorable one (to me) was a story exactly like this one.
A kiddie pool had a drain cover made of metal. At one point, it became damaged, and the service company replaced it temporarily with a plastic cover. Needless to say, it broke (shattered) soon after.
A mother put her kid in the pool. Shortly thereafter, he began screaming. His mother ran over, only to find that she couldn't lift him off the drain. A lifeguard scrambled, and was able to turn off the suction. Once the child was free, the mother discovered that most of his intestines were in his diaper. He survived (the incident), but he was (obviously) screwed up for life.
Ten-plus years later, and I still remember most of the stories from that seminar. Almost made me not want to go to a pool again. - SeriouslyButNo, on 10/11/2007, -5/+43:(
- ZephyrNinety, on 10/11/2007, -0/+38I can't even IMAGINE the pain that must have caused.
- ifoundgodot, on 10/11/2007, -1/+35I _KNEW_ I had to be afraid of those things!
- liah, on 10/11/2007, -9/+42Anyone reminded of a Chuck Palahniuk short story...?
- Krovvy, on 10/11/2007, -3/+33*Picks up jaw from floor*
- coderukus, on 10/11/2007, -1/+29Do you have a pool drain in your chair?
- BlackMagic2, on 10/11/2007, -1/+27something about taking a ***** just doesn't sound all that great right now :/
I used to enjoy taking *****, thanks a lot man :( - jouissance, on 10/11/2007, -1/+27I was at a live reading of the story about a year before "Haunted" came out (he said it'd appear in a book at some point in the future). Two people ran outside in the middle of the reading and vomited on the spot. After the reading, Chuck passed out scented fake roses. What a badass.
- ablez3, on 10/11/2007, -6/+31i hate you so much...
i cant digg you down enough.
can you imagine the pain that little girl felt... - GreenxGiraffe, on 10/11/2007, -1/+26The term is "penis."
- ripstuntz, on 10/11/2007, -3/+26This kind of stuff happens a lot more then you'd think. I've seen many cases on the news about kids getting their hair stuck in these kinds of drains... a terrible way to go if you ask me!
- dontbejack, on 10/11/2007, -2/+24Just how the ***** does this happen?
- SourWorm, on 10/11/2007, -1/+21Yeah, and my balls tried to get inside for safety.
- NinjaBoy, on 10/11/2007, -2/+20"He said it is likely that she will have to be fed intravenously for the rest of her life." That really sucks.
Edit: No pun intended. - xtmno3, on 10/11/2007, -0/+18Put your palm over the tube end of a vacuum cleaner. Now imagine a more powerful motor behind it, and you sitting on the hole instead of your hand being there.
- MacGyver2210, on 10/11/2007, -0/+17Hi, you must be new here...
There's already an identical thread to this up the chain of comments - complete with a link to the story. I already read it, already threw up my lunch, and now I'll never eat carrots or calamari again...yadda yadda...
Read before you post people, not too hard... - zyl0x, on 10/11/2007, -2/+18This is one of the most horrible things I've ever read.
- MacGyver2210, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15"You just read this story, so you must be at least kinda sick."
I ***** threw up, that's unbelievably disturbing. I don't know if I'll ever eat Calamari or Carrots again... - revjustin2, on 10/11/2007, -0/+14What the ***** are you talking about? Are you reading the same article I am?
- merdiesel, on 10/11/2007, -0/+14Great story but definitely NSBL (not safe before lunch).
- nicepants, on 10/11/2007, -0/+135-25 HP pump pulls in water and pumps it through filters at a rate of hundreds/thousands of gallons per minute. It pulls pretty hard, and if you only have one drain feeding that intake, anything that obstructs said drain is going to have a LOOOT of pressure exerted on it.
It's ridiculous to pull all of your intake for a particular pump from a single drain. A MUCH safer alternative is to pull a majority of the intake from "skimmers" on the sides of a pool. The drain should still also feed the pump, but only a relatively small percentage, depending on the size of the pool, pump, and number & size of skimmers, etc. - jubilee123, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13maybe you've got it confused with Star Magazine?
- xoxos3, on 10/11/2007, -1/+14that is absolutly terrible, i have a child my self and just imagining having to watch your child go through that would be the worst thing ever.
- f4nt0m4s, on 10/11/2007, -2/+15so i'm not a pool owner nor am i experienced with pool drains so does anyone have an explanation how the pool drain works, why it would be open when people are using the pool, and how this all happens?
poor girl i hope they can get her life back on track without too many permanent changes - Kaminczak, on 10/11/2007, -1/+13His latest book, actually, is called "Rant". But yeah, this made me think of his story, "Guts." He always blends supposedly factual stuff with fantasy, and I'd thought this was more fantasy than truth. I'm grossly mistaken.
- ryancxx, on 10/11/2007, -10/+22As horrible as that is, it's pretty funny
- Phyltre, on 10/11/2007, -2/+13That's right, ablez3, hate will fix all our insensitivity problems!
- printenv, on 10/11/2007, -2/+13If anyone had any kind of sympathy for this little girl they would feel emotion. However, just because you feel emotion for something terrible like this doesn't mean one is emo in the least.
Emo I would say is more of a state of depression at a certian age self-imposed or not. Like Goth kids (which now seem to be merged into emo kids), jocks, frat boys, ho's, nerds, etc.
Point is this...Empathy != emo - wiirdo, on 10/11/2007, -5/+15@bwjacket: you are a dick.
- Arbus, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10In the case of underwater adventures, "Admiral Dinkins" is also acceptable.
- DrinkingNyquil, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11And just maaaaybe you're an idiot troll whose reading comprehension skills are so poor you missed reading in the article that this happened in a WADING POOL.
Sadly enough for us, it seems your intellect is just high enough for you to figure out how to turn on a computer and hit the reply button on digg. :( - oneoverzero, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10If I told you what it tasted like... You'd never eat kalimari again.
(By the way, it didn't happen to him, just to one of the characters in one of his books (haunted)) - CayoHuesoDude, on 10/11/2007, -3/+12Should this family get an attorney in this matter?
I wonder who could do it?
http://news.findlaw.com/newsmakers/john.edwards.html - jezkah, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9I am glad to hear I'm not the only one who felt nauseous because of it. I started reading it on the ascent of a turbulent flight in a tin can to Mexico, so as my stomach was floating upwards in knots, my thoughts were squarely on innards being pulled from the ass. Palahniuk is madly evocative; I've never had to preempt vomiting until then.
- prag, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9Maybe Kevin and Alex can take some of the Diggnation beerfund money and buy her a teddybear or something, you know, from all of us...
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -7/+16I rather read this than anything about ron paul
- civperc, on 10/11/2007, -3/+12Excuse me while I shed some tears at work :-(
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9sounds like the reverse of the classic jetski accident.
- sockdemon, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9I think he's reffering to the fact that half her guts no longer exist, thus making the digestion of macdonalds, or any solid food, rather difficult. It's a rather crass observation.
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