Teenagers use Google Earth, Facebook to organise illegal pool parties
I’ve seen some ingenious uses of technology before but this may be the best yet. Teenagers in the UK are using a combination of Google Earth and Facebook to organise illegal pool parties in a new flash mob craze known as ‘dipping’.
Both Google Earth and Facebook have come in for criticism in the past for various abuses of the system. Google Earth in particular has been the target of legal challenges over the photographing and publishing of aerial pictures of private properties. The new “Street View” has caused even more concern, with both a Boring couple and a whole town in Minnesota claiming their privacy has been violated.
Now teenagers in the UK are using a combination of Google Earth and Facebook to target and organise parties in unsuspecting home owners’ swimming pools.
According to The Daily Mail, the teenagers first stalk an area using Google Earth to find a suitable property with a swimming pool in the garden. They then use social networks such as MySpace, Facebook or Bebo to arrange the impromptu pool parties by spreading word of when the ‘dipping’ is going to take place.
The residents of the targeted homes then either get home from work or a night out, or wake up in the middle of the night to find a party going on in their swimming pool.
The police are aware of the craze, which many fear will grow as the weather improves and knowledge of such events increases. A spokesman for Devon and Cornwall Police, the area in which an incident is said to have taken place last week, said:
We are advising owners of swimming pools to be on their guard. We would also warn prospective swimmers that using someone else’s pool is trespassing and therefore illegal.
I know this is an illegal activity, and we obviously cannot condone any such craze here at Blorge, but I do have to applaud the ingenuity of these youngsters for using technology so imaginatively.
At the moment I don’t have to worry, not being anywhere near rich enough to afford a house of my own, let alone one with a swimming pool. But if I ever do, I don’t think I’d be too bothered to wake up in the middle of the night to find a group of half-naked girls in my pool. In fact, I’d probably join them.
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June 22nd, 2008
Because it’d be naked girls who’d come…
not e.g. spraycan wielding hooligans, or people with excess alcohol on board and a less than exemplary level of respect for your property and privacy…
June 11th, 2009
“I’ve seen some ingenious uses of technology before but this may be the best yet.”
Really? This is the what you consider the best? I take it you are Amish then?
June 11th, 2009
“I’ve seen some ingenious uses of technology before but this may be the best yet.”
Really? This is the what you consider the best? I take it you are Amish then.
June 11th, 2009
Use of Technology? Me and my friends used to do this using no more than word of mouth to get pools around my neighborhood. Using Google earth and facebook is a time saver, but it’s not like this would never happen if it weren’t for those technological advances.
June 13th, 2009
Man I’d have to be restrained from taking an axe or mah 12 gauge to those f—-rs
June 15th, 2009
shopped
June 15th, 2009
Ya gotta love kids. :)
June 15th, 2009
KIDS ARE FUCKING WANKERS!!! WHY DO WE LET THEM BE BORN!!!
July 9th, 2009
I would LOVE for someone to do that in texas…
July 9th, 2009
I wuld join on the girls in pool also with my trunk snout pointing at the moon! also we are swinging like 54 studio discodance! Put sauce on that for me!
July 9th, 2009
Note to self: leave exposed high amperage electrical wiring and/or gallons of undiluted lye in the pool.
June 22nd, 2010
Thanks for the tip Andrew.
August 25th, 2011
It’s arduous to find educated folks on this topic, but you sound like you recognize what you’re speaking about! Thanks
February 1st, 2012
besides why don’t you look at this Luxury Home