UK Dipping Craze Gains Momentum
A new craze is sweeping across the UK called ‘dipping’. Dipping involves identifying private homes with outdoor swimming pools and then ‘dipping’ in the pool, without permission, when the owners are away at work or on holiday.
Police in Dorset have reported illegal pool parties, or dips, having been arranged using Google earth to identify suitable locations and social networking services like Facebook to coordinate party-goers.
Pool owners have reportedly returned home from work to find their prized swimming pools full of empty beer cans. Some have even been woken up by early morning dippers splashing about in their back garden swimming pools.
Police have warned pool owners to be vigilant this summer as the dipping craze appears to be gaining momentum. They also remind potential dippers that entering private property to use the swimming pool without permission is trespassing which is a criminal offence.
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[...] ‘dipping’. Dipping involves identifying private homes with outdoor swimming pools and then ‘dipping’ in the pool, without permission, when the owners are away at work or on [...]
If I were one of these owners, I would put something really nasty in the water if I was going away. That would teach them!