Originally Posted by dietpepsi (Post 2100211)

Every Wednesday and Sunday there is a group that has very loud Polka music playing that u can hear over the entire pool from there boom box, BOTTLES of beer, and a dog that lays under the table barking at people if you attempt to. go the restroom ( it is obviously not a service animal). These people have taken over this pool with absolutely zero consideration of others, I have called about them, zero help from the from the recreation department! any ideas rather than going to another pool? Ashland is within walking distance for us.

Originally Posted by dietpepsi (Post 2100211)

Every Wednesday and Sunday there is a group that has very loud Polka music playing that u can hear over the entire pool from there boom box, BOTTLES of beer, and a dog that lays under the table barking at people if you attempt to. go the restroom ( it is obviously not a service animal). These people have taken over this pool with absolutely zero consideration of others, I have called about them, zero help from the from the recreation department! any ideas rather than going to another pool? Ashland is within walking distance for us.

Originally Posted by Papa_lecki (Post 2100272)

If the glass bottle break NEAR the pool, common protocol is to drain the pool, to be sure there are no pieces of glass in the pool.

Expensive proposition and closes the pool for a week.

Recreation will respond.

Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 2100903)

Take some Mace (or make your own pepper spray) and as you walk by the dog - "accidentally spray some close to it.

Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 2100910)

Use the video on your phone to prove the glass bottles and barking, aggressive dog.
.......Step 1 Ask politely
........Step 2 Get your phone out and video it. That OFTEN scares people into suddenly doing the right thing.
........Step 3 Spray pepper solution in area of dog, covertly.
........Step 4 Become friends with some retired Mafia types.
.........Step 5 Get all your women friends to put on really NASTY perfume and sit upwind from that group.
.........Step 6 Play some really nasty rap music ......loud and close by.

Originally Posted by JSR22 (Post 2100915)

Bully

Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 2100921)

Sarcasm Sheldon........you just need to recognize it. Everything is NOT literal !

Originally Posted by JSR22 (Post 2100922)

Good. I was beginning to think you were totally nuts!

Originally Posted by msilagy (Post 2100394)

I go to the Ashland pool and the music starts at 2:30 - 3:00 on Wednesdays and Sundays. It starts out at a pretty low volume and as people begin to leave about 4:30 or so the volume increases a bit. People dance in the pool and overall it's a fun afternoon. I have never seen a dog barking there and that should stop but it has nothing to do with the man who brings the music. Have never heard polka music played. If you don't like it on those days jump in your golf cart and go to Bonnybrook 3 blocks away or the Lynnhaven, and Churchill pools also very close. Don't complain about something many people enjoy on those 2 afternoons for a couple of hours! Go early or someplace else and sit in silence on Wednesday and Sunday. After reading all the posts the people responding are not getting a clear picture - no one is rowdy, it's not kids doing this and it's not a boom box. It's an older gentleman, a nice guy, and the people are seniors not rowdy younger ones. The dog should go if it's barking at people and I can't imagine whose dog that is as the gentleman that plays the music does not have a dog. The person that comes by to check ID's laughs and joins in on the fun of music - MUSIC - folks! Not POLKA music all kinds of music which supplies much happiness in life. You are misrepresenting this situation - Please go somewhere else on those afternoons and don't try and ruin it for others that enjoy this!
Update about the dog: The dog is a service dog. Pete's caretaker (Pete is 99 years old) brings him over on Sunday with the dog. The dog has never barked and does lay next to the caretaker. Some people need to get a life.

Originally Posted by msilagy (Post 2100394)

I go to the Ashland pool and the music starts at 2:30 - 3:00 on Wednesdays and Sundays. It starts out at a pretty low volume and as people begin to leave about 4:30 or so the volume increases a bit. People dance in the pool and overall it's a fun afternoon. I have never seen a dog barking there and that should stop but it has nothing to do with the man who brings the music. Have never heard polka music played. If you don't like it on those days jump in your golf cart and go to Bonnybrook 3 blocks away or the Lynnhaven, and Churchill pools also very close. Don't complain about something many people enjoy on those 2 afternoons for a couple of hours! Go early or someplace else and sit in silence on Wednesday and Sunday. After reading all the posts the people responding are not getting a clear picture - no one is rowdy, it's not kids doing this and it's not a boom box. It's an older gentleman, a nice guy, and the people are seniors not rowdy younger ones. The dog should go if it's barking at people and I can't imagine whose dog that is as the gentleman that plays the music does not have a dog. The person that comes by to check ID's laughs and joins in on the fun of music - MUSIC - folks! Not POLKA music all kinds of music which supplies much happiness in life. You are misrepresenting this situation - Please go somewhere else on those afternoons and don't try and ruin it for others that enjoy this!
Update about the dog: The dog is a service dog. Pete's caretaker (Pete is 99 years old) brings him over on Sunday with the dog. The dog has never barked and does lay next to the caretaker. Some people need to get a life.

Originally Posted by pruzicka (Post 2101287)

Amen to that and what wrong with some Polka anyways. I will bring my accordion!!