After I posted this blog on the kiddie pool police, I received this email from my friend Ken, who lives in Eastpointe, a community just north of Detroit.
Last year my mother bought Miles and Rosalia (his two youngest children) an inflatable pool - a tiny tot pool - and we got a warning notice that we had to get a lock for the gate, move it X amount of feet from the house, make sure no power lines were overhead, and pay for a permit to even put it up! And this is a pool for little kids - not even remotely big enough for adults!
Next, will we be fined for letting our kids run under a power line or play baseball under a power line? Those power lines could fall down, you know.