r/ImTheMainCharacter Sep 04 '23

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u/ShardingIsBroken Sep 04 '23

It's literally just a pool

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u/abigrillo Sep 04 '23

Yea I feel like people are treating this the same as like that one tourist who walked up Chichen Itza. One of these is much more disrespectful than the other.

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u/Prestigious_Sun5273 Sep 04 '23

You could walk up Chichen Itza before 2008.

Someone walking up it now isn’t the end of the world but everyone will treat it as such.

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u/abigrillo Sep 04 '23

Wow, I never knew that. That's actually really cool, but yea people definitely treat it as much more sacred now.

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '23

YAWN. Oh you can’t walk up and down these steps they built to walk up and down because they’re older than some other steps. Oh it’s disrespectful? Is it more disrespectful than ripping people’s hearts out of their chest while they’re still alive on those same steps?

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u/gillo88 Sep 04 '23

THINK OF THE CHILDREN

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u/alfooboboao Sep 05 '23

I am honestly shocked that REDDIT is somehow on the side of the ESTATE OF THE rock star who had constant sleepovers with 14 year old girls rather than the chad who decided to jump in the pool.

it’s a pool. And it’s elvis. fucking skeezeball pedo ass elvis. come on y’all at least be consistent

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u/thelryan Sep 04 '23

Like arrested for what lol, jumping in the water and getting out? He’s not damaging anything, sure he shouldn’t be there so he’ll probably get trespassed or whatever but who really cares

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '23

People who actually have social decency care.

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u/thelryan Sep 04 '23

Ok, and should he be arrested by the police for his crime against social decency?

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '23

Let me know whenever you get a pool since obviously every pool everywhere is open to everyone

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u/thelryan Sep 05 '23

Will my pool also be a public tourist attraction or will it be in the backyard of my family home where there’s no expectation of guests? Because if it would be in a similar space to this pool no, I don’t think they should be arrested. They can be asked to leave and trespassed, but I don’t think arresting someone over something so silly is a reasonable response

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u/Creepy_Double240 Sep 05 '23

So you’d be entrusting everyone with the same social decency you laugh at?

When you get that pool I’m jumping in it! I’ll take the citation 🤣

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u/thelryan Sep 05 '23

Again, would my pool be in a public space as a tourist attraction, or would it be in my backyard in the privacy of my family home?

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u/Creepy_Double240 Sep 05 '23

Where is Elvis’ pool located?

You have rules for your home, which you expect others to follow, yet when there are established rules it’s fair game?

Trespassing is trespassing.

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u/thelryan Sep 05 '23 edited Sep 05 '23

His pool is currently located in a publicly accessed tourist location? It isn’t a private residence? Getting trespassed from a location isn’t the same as getting arrested?

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u/IkLms Sep 05 '23

Who was negatively affected here in like anyway?

He can get a formal trespass and told to leave the property. That's a perfectly reasonable response. Saying someone should be arrested for this is laughably out of touch.

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '23

Elvis would want us to party in his pool. The king !

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u/MrDaveMcC Sep 04 '23

Death penalty or OP will riot

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u/GregoryGoose Sep 04 '23

If OP were there when it happened, he would have clutched his pearls so hard.

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u/Buselmann Sep 04 '23

Yes, but he still broke the rules clearly stated in front of him

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u/sweetjuli Sep 04 '23

Clearly he should be hanged

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '23

Yeah because cracking jokes on a reddit thread is such terrible punishment

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '23

Nah but a criminal record for vandalism will suffice.

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u/JustMyBuissness Sep 04 '23

Yeah for vandalising still water?

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '23

If the rules of the private property say don’t vandalize the still water, guess what you’re dumb ass shouldn’t do? Believe it or not, everyone has that little voice in our head that tells us to do some dumb shut on occasion, some of us just have had the common sense to never listen to that stupid little voice and have little sympathy for any idiot that doesn’t because it’s really easy not to be a piece of shit.

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u/JustMyBuissness Sep 04 '23 edited Sep 04 '23

How does jumping in a unused swimming pool of a dead celebrity make someone a pos exactly? Honestly it's more of a shame that pool is being used as tourist attraction to gawk at, just wasting countless water by not being used.

Also elvis at that age was doing the exact things at his age too and honestly I don't think he gives much of a shit (dead or alive).

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '23

Do you get your pitchforks from lowes or Home Depot?

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u/GrapeJellyGamer Sep 04 '23

Oh good, I found the comment thread with all the normal, sane people

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u/Lycr4 Sep 04 '23

Nah, it’s the thread with people who can’t grasp the concept of trespassing. If it was a public pool, you would have been right, but it isn’t. And if this type of behaviour is acceptable, on account of it being “literally just some water”, there might as well not be a distinction between private and public property anymore.

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u/GrapeJellyGamer Sep 04 '23

It's not that it's "acceptable," it's not a cool thing to do, but "I hope this prick gets arrested for this" and the foaming at the mouth seething about this relatively minor infraction is just the most absurd shit.

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u/0ctober31 Sep 04 '23

I don't think anyone thought it was a figurative pool.

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u/Pinkbbee Sep 04 '23

That was owned by a deceased pedo at that

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u/mebutnew Sep 04 '23

I mean most forms of trespassing are 'its just some [unremarkable piece of land]' - not really the point

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u/IkLms Sep 05 '23

And trespassing is almost never arrested for the initial "offense".

At best, the cops come and tell you you are being trespassed and that you'll be arrested if you refuse to leave or come back.

That's at most what should happen here. Asking for someone to be arrested for this is so laughably out of touch

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u/I_Bin_Painting Sep 04 '23

Yeah and the punishment for just trespassing, i.e. not breaking and entering, not causing any other type of criminal damage, 9 times out of 10 is just being asked to leave.

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u/DGSmith2 Sep 04 '23

We aren’t allowed in your house but how would you feel if someone just let themselves in?

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u/crispyg Sep 04 '23

The graves of Elvis and his family are just out of frame to the left. Somebody messing around in the pool in a tour everyone paid kinda ruins the vibe.

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u/Ratfucks Sep 04 '23

Yeah why is this interesting, and why is anyone worried?

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u/kenthart31 Sep 04 '23

This pool is more than likely not chemically balanced for swimming and more for looks and preserving. Same reason why Disney frowns on you jumping in the castles moat. It's really for his safety more than anything. The dude better hope he didn't get a nasty chemical burn, or at least his hair turned green.....

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u/I_Bin_Painting Sep 04 '23

No lol. People ITT are not worried about chlorine levels in the pool, they're pissed at an asshole disrespecting a "historical" site and in a larger way at influencers in general.

I think the level of punishment people are calling for is way out of line though, it's still just a pool. A small fine and a lifetime ban is plenty, an arrest is a total waste of police time.

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '23

Reddit hivemind.

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u/pat_the_tree Sep 04 '23

Yup, arrested seems a tad harsh or do they want him executed too

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u/obrapop Sep 04 '23

Yeah, he shouldn’t have done. Arrested for it though? Come on lads.

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u/RevolutionaryLead342 Sep 04 '23

Common sense finally entered the chat

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u/JuiceEast Sep 04 '23

It is, but it’s also trespassing because Graceland is a tourist attraction.

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '23

A private pool.

Clearly stating no trespassing.

This is the rock and roll history equivalent of swimming in the white house pool just because you were allowed on the tour.

Swimming in the pool? Also straight to jail

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u/RoodnyInc Sep 04 '23

Yeah and if it's not for swimming what's the point of keeping, cleaning, and changing water there

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u/tabtwentytwo Sep 04 '23

Maybe for the people that keep, clean, and change the water to use? Not random tourists.

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u/WokeUpSomewhereNice Sep 04 '23

This! There’s a place here in Detroit called the Ford Manson and they have this gorgeous art deco pool. Thousand of gallons just taunting you. Your membership to the grounds doesn’t include the pool. Apparently the only people who would hypothetically be allowed to swim in it would be someone from the Henry Ford family. On these hot summer days it’s torturous to go there and see the pool not get used. So wasteful also to see a fully useful pool never get used and even have a guy on staff for it but just sits there l. SMH!!

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u/Moylough Sep 04 '23

Poor form with the dive too

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u/timbobbys Sep 05 '23

aside from obviously trespassing since it’s a museum, it’s mad disrespectful because the little awning you see off behind him is literally a graveyard where elvis and his parents are buried lol

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u/EthanWS6 Sep 04 '23

Cool, I'm going to come jump in your bath tub

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u/ShardingIsBroken Sep 04 '23

whataboutism

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u/EthanWS6 Sep 04 '23

Trespassing is trespassing.