Category: WTF
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Seniors strip down for pole fitness in the pool
See delawareonline Just past a sign warning patrons, “If you’ve had diarrhea in the past two weeks don’t use the pool,” six geriatrics shimmied down slick poles on a recent weekday afternoon to blaring club beats. Outside, in the retirement home’s well-appointed lobby, a befuddled man struggled to make a call on the new iPhone…
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‘Missing Swimmer’ Raymond Roth Sentenced
Read Wantagh-Seaford Patch A Massapequa man who faked his own death to collect insurance money was ordered to spend up to seven years in prison, according to the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office. Raymond Roth, 49, was sentenced Thursday to spend between two and seven years in jail for concocting a plan to collect life…
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Parents and student defend bear crawl coach
See KENS5 A group of parents and students came to the defense of a high school coach who they said did no wrong in making swimmers do bear crawls on the track. In a story KENS 5 brought you first on Monday, a former swimmer at Reagan High School in the Northeast ISD said the…
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Canadian 7-Eleven offers free Slurpees to customers wearing swim suits (in March)
See CTV News The store at St. Mary’s Road and Osborne Street offered a free Slurpee to anyone who showed up wearing a bathing suit on Saturday. According to Environment Canada, the temperature at the time was a balmy minus 32 degrees with the wind chill. Derek Ducharme says going out in the cold is…
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London Bridge suicide jumper rescue saves second man from drowning
See London24, via Arbroath A man threatening to leap into the Thames from London Bridge last night inadvertently saved a stranger from drowning. Lifeboat crew were called out around 11pm yesterday evening, and were stood down when police on the bridge talked down the distressed man. 1) 23:00 called to London Bridge to reports of…
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Burger King staff in Brazil use water tank as swimming pool
See LiveLeak A video released by an amateur videographer on Monday shows employees of Burger King using the box of one of the chain stores like pool water. The video shows three half-naked employees bathing and playing in the water tanks that sits on top of the Burger King in Faria Lima Avenue, prime area…
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Morocco-Spain Border Incident Leaves 15 Dead As Police Fire Rubber Bullets At Swimmers
Read for instance Reuters Spain said on Thursday border police had fired rubber bullets in an attempt to turn back around 200 migrants who tried to cross the frontier between Morocco and Spain’s north African enclave Ceuta on February 6. Several migrants from the group drowned in the Mediterranean trying to swim around a man-made breakwater…
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Prosecutor: East Detroit swim instructor changed clothes rather than save drowning boy
Read Detroit Free Press The swimming instructor in charge of the class where an East Detroit High School student drowned last year opted to change into his swimming clothes rather than jump into the pool when he learned that a boy was struggling in the water, according to Macomb County Prosecutor Eric Smith. The instructor…