No, this is not a Clint Eastwood movie.  But, it was a very real event many years ago.

It seems that one of the local residents decided to install an in-ground swimming pool.  And this pool, was the very first private body of water to be installed in the community.

Now, the community had a lake just down the road so the community was unsure as to why anyone needed their own private body of water. But, more to the point, that pool was going to be a death trap!!

“A death trap! A death trap I tell you!”.  That was the mantra of the residence.  Teens to toddlers were going to find their way into that pool and drown!

Each day the perceived body count would grow.  It went from 1 to 10 to 100 to the entire community to the surrounding communities.  They were all going to die.  Fence or no fence, it didn’t matter.  That pool was a death trap.

There were even those who were circulating a petition to close the pool.  But, to no avail.  The pool remained open but no one, repeat, no one died in the pool.

Sorry, Lake Odessa.