Unbelievable Pool Collapses and Mistakes Caught on Camera

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Unbelievable moments by the pool that you never even imagined!

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[nunyabiznez]

When I was a kid over 50 years ago one of our neighbors a couple of houses down decided they wanted the world's largest above ground swimming pool. So they went out and bought nine swimming pools all the same size of 18 feet by 36 feet and about four and a half feed deep by design. He spent all spring and well into the summer cobbling them all together "welding" the plastic liners together, bolting the walls together, digging a bowl shape hole in the ground so the middle of the pool was eight feet deep and so on. When he got done the pool was fifty four feet wide and 108 feet long and about eight feet deep. He then began to fill it. Normally one would call the fire department and pay a fee which was a flat rate plus a per gallon fee. But the fire department took one look and said no and drove off leaving him with an empty pool. But undeterred he got out his garden hose and turned it on and it took a little over a week of running that hose continuously 24 hours a day. It was ready to go for his first pool party on July 4. Everyone in the neighborhood came over to watch it being built and being filled. He then invited everyone over for the inaugural pool party. So everything went, er, um, swimmingly. Then about a week later I woke up in my basement bedroom and went to get out of bed and found my feet in about a foot of water. I came upstairs to alert my parents who went down stairs and were scratching their heads then we went out on the deck and found our entire yard under a foot of water and was gushing into the basement. My dad quickly went down stairs and shut off some utilities and grabbed his most expensive power tools and then went into my room and grabbed a few things and by the time he was done our basement was in three feet of water. I'd have drowned if it happened an hour earlier. We called the fire department not knowing who else to call and they drove down the street and as it happens we were slightly down hill from that neighbor with the giant pool. The pool had failed earlier in the morning and out gushed a river with no place to go but our yard. The fire department ended up calling in three more trucks and they continuously pumped the water out of our yard/basement and over a thousand feet down the road over a little hill and into a stream that took the water a mile away into a pond. So of course my Dad was furious with our neighbor, sued and eventually won having a lien put on their house and forcing them to sell it to pay for the damages. We spent the summer and part of the fall living in a nearby motel while repairs were done. Our house was worth about 25k and it was estimated that about 12k in damages were done which was a lot. That was more than what my Dad earned in a year working for the post office. Everything was fixed and we were moved back in my Halloween and it was the following year when we got reimbursed. This incident inspired our town to pass an ordinance requiring all home owners to carry at least 25k in liability insurance. It also inspired me to always make sure I consult a topographical map prior to moving in to any place to make sure we were not in a valley or down hill from a major water source.

[MsArishiaNishi]

I'm impressed with the guy and his horse roping the steer exiting the pool. Wow.

[aliholgate]

I love the bear chilling out in kiddies pool...❤

[freebird]

11:22 Notice the electric transformer service box in the corner by the fence being flooded. That could have been the end of anyone touching the water. They were lucky.

[arklinmike]

I'm curious how many of the neighbors are enthusiastic, when tens of thousands of gallons of water suddenly come through their fence and flood their yards, or worse?

[marilynwillett]

Wow I Give the cowboy a lot of credit for roping that steer IN THE POOL !

[capt.bart.roberts]

"If I fits, I sits!" Random black bear.

[JeanneBergeron-cn]

Good video. What I don't get though is why buy a pool if your going to destroy it?

[aljoschalong]

Only in America people shoot their swimming pools.

[stevenpoff]

WOW some of these people are complete idiots.😳

[darlenechadwick]

That first earthquake in a pool shot scared me when the guy got turned around, momentarily losing his way!!! That second earthquake registered as a 7.3, in a pool with that one guy was so cool with his attitude! Stay calm & walk right out! I hope, God Forbid, that everyone that happens to has that second guys luck!!! Great videos! TYSM!!!

[andrewszigeti]

That first pool was doomed from the moment it was built. That slope was WAY too steep to hold up the weight of a pool for very long.

[melaniebaker]

I don't know why anyone would want thousands of gallons of water rushing onto their property from purposely collapsing their pool. When we upgraded our above ground pool we drained the old pool with a hose. One would think all that water near your home could cause damage. Not to mention if you have neighbors that live close enough to cause damage to their property.

[JonesLeather]

The pool with a bucket of dry ice in it could asphyxiate people and animals from the large amount of CO2, which is odorless - just like carbon monoxide.. It stays low if no wind, and can collect nearby in any depressions long enough to kill - including in a basement if a window or door is open and it is carried that way. Getting in the pool could get you a Darwin Award.

[mandytreutens]

I am sure it was fun for some of the pool owners to empty their pools in such a dramatic fashion, but their neighbors might not have enjoyed being flooded...

[giannidcenzo]

The bartender did not abandon his station. ❤

[Windrider]

Classifying the people having problems in this video compilation:
- Wanna-bees: Above ground pools.
- Rich: Below ground pools.
- Super rich: Pools way above ground, like on top of buildings.
The poor don't have these problems!

[SkyWriter]

Some people have a really strange method of watering their lawn.

[nfmoments]

18:07 poor little one... glad that he could make it himself

[bobbressi]

Build your house on a hill they said! It will be fine they said!