To be absolutely clear: people have died here, on more than on occasion. It's like the whole place was designed to be The Last Water Slide You Ever Ride or something. There is nothing stopping you from falling off of these steps and onto slick rock and sliding all the way to the bottom besides your own balance.
apparently if you jump into it, you'll get sucked to the bottom by a powerful drain that will keep you down there until you drown. this is known because it's happened to people. the city's response has always been "well don't do that."
A warning beforehand: this describes the drowning deaths of three children and an adult.
over a decade before this horrifying death (which, I hear the pool is now kept at 3 feet and is cleaned regularly or debris so hopefully nobody can drown anymore, but I ain't fuckin' testing that), there were other deaths, caused by, guess. no, really, guess what killed people.
did you guess lamp posts? because it was lamp posts.
On March 21, 1991, Larry James Watkins and one other unnamed person were killed by a falling lamp post while just sitting on a bench in the park on a windy day.
Nobody could quite figure out what the failure was that caused this particular lamp post to fall, so they just took out the rest of them and now there are no lamp posts in the Water Gardens.
