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Subject: Re: No Subject

Date: Thu 06/07/06 03:57:33 GMT

Name: Andrew

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Well, you see Poland is definitely not Germany, with it's Ordnung. Poles don't care much about the rules, especially such stupid ones as no bathing, when we are having the longest and worst heatwave I can remember at the moment. Poles will bath, even in closed lakes. The lifeguards can eihter accept this and save lives or go around the lake telling people to get out (they will get in as the lifegurad turns his back) and while doing this he can fail to see a real life threatening situation. Anyway, many of Polish water-checks are just of advisory capacity. They just warn the people, not prohibit bathing. If something really serious happens and bathing becomes really dangerous Poles stop ignoring the rules and police or municipal police (straz miejska) is sent to stop people bathing.

BTW rumours about bathing being unsafe are in the tabloids each summer. I've never heard of someone who got sick in Jeziorko Czerniakowskie or anywhere else in Warsaw. The only things that happen all too often is minor injuries on broken glass.

Andrew.

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By A Stranger in Warsaw - Thu 06/07/06 03:18:59 GMT

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So there's this lake I've been swimming in and occasionally there are young women swimming clothed. Lately, my wife reported that they had found Salmonella in the water and had closed the lake. I went to check it out. Business as usual, I saw, even lifeguards, must not be closed. I swam, am not sick.

But a local rag had an article about it. Sure enough, a health department found salmonella and other nasties in the water, and the picture with the article showed a sign behind the ON DUTY lifeguards: NO BATHING

Huh?

If a lifeguard's duty is to keep people safe, isn't it their duty to keep people out of the water?!

Poles, can you explain this?

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