ANSWERS: 21
  • no,breaking and entering is the crime.what happens to the unwanted "guests" is moot.
  • Hey, if he's shocking the pool and they're stupid enough to jump in without asking, seems to me they have no one to blame but themselves.
  • Only if the swimmers could prove serious loss as a result. They were the trespassers, and if the neighbor had taken resonable precuations ( fence around the pool, notices, etc. ), only a finding of deliberate intent to harm would result in any problems for him.
  • By law yes he is to blame. While the teens can be charged with entering too.
  • if its fenced, then i doubt it. if not, then he may get some blame.
  • That really depends. ` Does the neighbor have no trespassing signs posted? Has he called the police? If so, how many times and what did the police say or do? ` This sounds like a resounding NO he is not legally to blame. Reason? It's equivalent to someone repeatedly breaking into someone else's house suing if they trip and fall over a trap wire or such other contraption and get hurt. ` Point being: those kids would never KNOW he was pouring anything in the pool, if they were not SNEAKING into his pool. ` That being said, the parents can be countersued for neglect depending on the circumstances. ` In my opinion, it's HIS pool...he can pour anything in it he wants.
  • So let me get this straight, YOU trespassed onto someones PROPERTY and were asked not to do it again I'm sure But YOU did it anyways again and again and again knowing full well the OWNER did not want you there and as a JOKE pours something into the water that did what ? turn your skin blue your hair fall out, you lost your teeth or became radioactive or it was probabley soap and you slipped right and got hurt and you want him to pay for YOUR CRIME against him ??? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ... But I am sure you can find some shister lawyer that will convince some dumbass jury that you had some sort of right to trespass and use someone elses property with out their permission and you got hurt in the process of it and should have them pay for it ... BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ... ~Nemo~
  • I would say yes. Something along the same questionable lines happened to a neighbor of mine, but it didn't involve a pool. My neighbor was a farmer who owned a lot of land. A boy was four wheeling. The boy trespassed and his four wheeler flipped over on this mans property. He was seriously hurt, and the lifeline helicopter picked him up in the field bad. The family of the boy sued the farmer for all medical expenses and such. Lets just say that you need to keep people off your property. Because the man no longer has a farm. He ended up having to sell most everything he had to cover he med expenses and such. So I am going to say yes.
  • Absolutely the neighbor will be held liable. Malicious intent is a serious crime. Actually (depending on the state) if one of the kids drowned, he might still be in trouble. . Why not trade pool time for say... yard chores or something? . Be a good neighbor.
  • They are trespassing. If they weren't someplace they didn't belong nothing would happen. I don't know what the guy put in the pool but if it were not harmful I think he has every right to do it...like put a lot of blue vegetable dye in it and have everyone turn blue.:)
  • Hate to say it but he is, thats how screwed up the law is, what about that burglar who hurt himself in the victims home? He sued them!!! The world is topsy-turvy.
  • Its on his own property i dont see how it would be malicious intent. I mean i know technically it is but he could just claim he was doing it for/to himself since it is his property.
  • Yes, the neighbour can get in legal trouble for that. However, he shouldn't. The law is so twisted.
  • Culpability lies with that neighbor. . . . . . .BIG TIME!
  • Neighbor can put what he wants into his pool ... kids have no right to be there. They deserve what they get ... courts applaud elderly neighbor!!
  • regretfully he is legaly liable... even if they drown attempting to vandalize in his untampered with pool while he is away on vacation thanks to our our BS legal injustice system. may heineous crimes be perpetrated against the criminal rights activists.
  • NOPE. Teens are trespassing into his property
  • NOPE its the guys property what the teens are doing qualifies as trespassing.
  • Yes, the neighbor absolutely is liable, and if something happens to those kids while they are in the pool, the neighbor will be held accountable in any court of law, especially if he was found to have put it in there specifically to harm/joke the kids. I would call the police next time they trespass. Put up no trespassing signs. You can even put up a sign that says beware of dog and "pool is full of chemicals, do not enter" or something. What you cannot do, though, is actually harm them in any way. Unless, of course, you're in Texas. In which case, get a gun and chase them off. It's legal here. :D

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