I sat and watched a N-TV news piece this AM....topic? Swimming pool safety in Germany.
You can go back about seven years ago and note side-stories where fights broke out at public pools, and police had to be called.
The journalist for this piece went and talked to pool operators, and police.
Pool operators will say that a 'macho-style' has started up in urbanized areas, with blunt attitudes being the 'norm'.
The police? They say that the pool folks need to install cameras....start identifying the problem-folks (mostly all men, I would assume), and forbid them entry.
They then brought up Berlin standards....where 1,300 bans were issued in the past year.
Private security/bouncers.....the next step? I would imagine all of these urbanized pools will be raising their pool fees (probably 100-percent) and go to weekend bouncers being the norm and long-term bans would become an eventual norm.
The odd thing I see from this story trend....if you went back to the 1970s to the 1990s.....you simply didn't see this type of aggressive behavior at public pools in Germany.
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