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Cardiff Lido Reclassified As “Reflecting Pool” – Swimmers Face Arrest While Divers Get Free Pass
CARDIFF – Confusion, outrage and mild splashing broke out this week after Cardiff officials reportedly announced that the city’s famous lido would no longer be classified as a swimming pool.
Instead, it has been officially redesignated as:
A REFLECTING POOL
The announcement has left residents baffled, particularly because the pool still contains water, changing rooms, lifeguards and people wearing swimming costumes.
According to newly published guidance:
Looking at the water is permitted.
Thinking about the water is encouraged.
Reflecting upon the water is highly recommended.
Swimming in the water is strictly forbidden.
One council spokesperson explained:
“The public misunderstood the purpose of the facility. It is now primarily intended for reflection, contemplation and looking slightly thoughtful.”
The new rules have already claimed their first high-profile victim.
Local sporting legend Dai Price, Cardiff’s only self-proclaimed Olympic gold medallist in the 100-metre tea-break relay, was arrested after dipping a single toe into the water to test the temperature.
Witnesses claim Dai looked around nervously before declaring:
“Bit chilly.”
Within seconds, three whistles sounded, two lifeguards pointed dramatically and a specially trained Reflecting Pool Enforcement Officer appeared from behind a shrub.
Dai was escorted away and spent five hours in Cardiff Prison.
Sources say he was eventually released after agreeing to write:
“I must not confuse reflecting with swimming”
five hundred times.
Dai later told reporters:
“I’ve spent more time in prison for touching water than I ever did training for my medal.”
The controversy deepened when a Swedish journalist visiting Cardiff with her daughter was also arrested.
The journalist allegedly committed the serious offence of taking a photograph while her daughter was standing in the pool.
Officials reportedly treated the image as evidence of unauthorised enjoyment.
The journalist was said to be completely bewildered.
“In Sweden we call this a swimming pool.”
Authorities allegedly replied:
“That’s exactly the sort of dangerous thinking we’re trying to prevent.”
The photograph has since been placed in a secure evidence locker.
Meanwhile, divers have been granted a complete exemption.
Under the new regulations, diving remains perfectly acceptable because officials insist that:
“Divers enter the water with commitment, purpose and style.”
As a result, residents have developed increasingly creative methods of avoiding prosecution.
One pensioner reportedly performed a graceful swan dive simply to retrieve a dropped pair of spectacles.
Another resident executed a forward somersault to cool off during the recent heatwave.
Several schoolchildren have enrolled in emergency diving classes after discovering that jumping into the pool could lead to questioning, paperwork and a mandatory seminar entitled:
Understanding Reflection In Modern Wales
Local businesses are already benefiting from the confusion.
A nearby shop has begun selling:
- Certified Reflecting Goggles
- Official Non-Swimming Swimwear
- Emergency Diving Manuals
- “I Survived The Reflecting Pool” T-shirts
- Commemorative Toe-Testing Certificates
The situation reached peak absurdity when officials unveiled a large new sign beside the pool.
It reads:
WELCOME TO CARDIFF REFLECTING POOL
Please Think Before Entering
Diving Permitted
Swimming Strictly Prohibited
Excessive Enjoyment May Result In Enforcement Action
As publication went to press, rumours suggested that several ducks had been issued warning notices for repeatedly swimming without authorisation.
The ducks declined to comment.
The Daily Scrotum will continue monitoring developments from a safe distance while carefully reflecting on whether water should, in fact, be allowed to get wet.
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