Google earth and pool crashing

Interesting usage of Google earth in England, where “teenagers” spot cool pools using the freely available satellite pictures and coordinate uninvited swimming sessions. Pool owners have been on high alert and the police is trying to contact Google about adding a sure-to-change-everything sign warning that “using someone else’s pool is trespassing and therefore illegal”.

Teens begin by surfing Google Earth’s satellite images to find houses with swimming pools — or at least paddling pools. Once a target has been identified, sweaty swimmers then use Facebook to arrange an organised, but uninvited, pool-crash. [...]

Owners of several plush poolside properties have already returned home to find teenagers taking a dip in their man-made lakes or their spoor: beer cans, dog-ends and vomit floating atop their once crystal-clear pools.

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Who saw that coming, the internet turning pools into a commong good :D