Now this is journalism. This is investigative reporting.
As Liam Quigley of Gothamist reported, New York City’s public pools were inadvertently turned into a public toilet on 203 separate occasions last year as nearly every pool in NYC was pooped in, forcing closures and cutting swimming hours for a city looking for a little relief from the sweltering heat.
Thanks to a freedom of information request, we now know that out of the 52 public pools scattered across the five boroughs, 44 had to be shut down at least once because someone dropped in a fresh dump. We’re talking full-on fecal events that the city has categorized like the Pentagon’s DEFCON levels. A solid turd is a “Level 1” incident. When someone drops a nuke into the pool in the form of diarrhea, that’s a “Level 2.”…