Fresh Loaf

A Georgia Department of Natural Resources meeting

1. Atlanta city infrastructure best in country? (The list-generating business consultants at Mercer say Atlanta has the best city infrastructure in the United States. Um, what?)

2. Blog: Rep. Bearden, R-Glock, paid by Carrollton — but for what? (Carrollton city manager told CL that the lawmaker often leads programs and initiatives and assists with some matters “you can’t talk about.” Well, that settles it.)

3. TEAM COVERAGE: Piedmont Park pool poo spill lead story on AJC.com (Atlanta’s daily newspaper: No. 1 for No. 2 news!)

4. Parking scofflaws, your free ride will soon be over (Illegally parked cars with unpaid parking tickets will soon be booted. Oh crap.)

5. Coyle makes Atlanta City Council bid official (Neighborhood activist who fought to preserve the integrity of the Beltline makes a go at politics.)

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AJC: #1 for #2 news!

For some horrible, unknowable reason, the lead story on AJC.com at this very moment is the temporary closure of Piedmont Park pool today due to fecal contamination.

That’s not a joke. It really is the lead story. With a picture and everything.

The story doesn’t have a byline, so I have no idea if it was reported by the paper’s Senior Swimming Pool Correspondent, the Assistant Editor of Potty Training, or a Miscellaneous Spills reporter.

THIS JUST IN: The QuikTrip at North Druid Hills and Briarcliff roads reports a taquito has been dropped on the floor by a clumsy. I repeat: taquito down!

(A tug at the elastic thigh-band of my Huggies Pull-Ups® to @loriming for alerting me to this, and to Thomas Wheatley, for his Poo-litzer Prize-winning report on the spill earlier this afternoon.)

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No worries, it’ll reopen tomorrow at 11 a.m. But ya see! This is why you people can’t have nice things!

From an email blast sent out to Piedmont Park Conservancy mailing list members:

After the jump, the obligatory Caddyshack clip, plus some copycats. (more…)

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Pam: Grant Park in the middle of the night. There’s a hole in the fence on the east side. Go through some bushes, cut through the fence and you’re at the pool. You have to have a couple of reinforcement cocktails to break the law like that. It’s a chain-linked fence but there’s enough of a crawl space to shimmy under it. Never been caught. It’s a nice pool when there’s not a bunch of kids in it. You can swim real laps. You definitely feel like you’re a mischievous child sneaking into a pool.

Edward: The W Hotels. Have your bathing trunks underneath your pants, keep a low profile, a drink in your hand is a nice touch, and tip your bartender well. If you can go with a good-looking woman, they’ll never give you a hard time. But you got to be totally ready if someone says you have to leave. Don’t overstay your welcome. It’s a high-class place. They’re going to be very respectful. It’s not like they’re going to arrest you. It’s not about a scam. It’s about easing in, taking advantage of the situation and easing out.

Brianna: Inman Park. We usually jump the fence. It closes at 9. We ended up going like at 12 last year but the police showed up. It’s awful when they come. They took our names and drove us home. It’s mostly embarrassing but I’m still going. If you don’t get caught then it’s like the best because it’s heated, it’s huge and it has a diving board. You can do lots of awesome stuff on a diving board. It’s pretty easy to jump the fence. Just don’t be loud. There’s apartments all around and the cops will come.

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