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Surveillance Camera Identifies Pool Hopping Teens, No Evidence They Vandalized a Fountain

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Three of four teenage boys were identified by a surveillance camera as pool hoppers using a swimming pool and leaving garbage, including beer cans, on the property of a home over a two week period, Darien police said. A fountain on the property had also been damaged, but police didn’t have evidence to charge anyone with that, and the boys denied they had anything to do with it, police said. Darien police provided this additional information about the matter, including accusations not proven in court:

The groundskeeper of a property on the 500 block of Middlesex Road, across the street from the town’s Highland Farm property, contacted police at 8:48 a.m., Saturday, July 27. He said that for the previous two weeks someone had been using the swimming pool and leaving garbage on the property. He also said damage had been done to a piece of a fountain on the grounds.

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based on a picture by Øyvind Holmstad on Wikimedia Commons 8-30-16

Former Pool Hoppers Remember Dips in That Middlesex Rd Swimming Pool as Far Back as the 1970s, Even ’60s

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Police may be charging some Darien youths with criminal mischief and trespassing at a particular pool on Middlesex Road that a police spokesman remembers was going on in the 1980s, and that other town residents and former residents say goes back much further — at that swimming pool. On the “You know you are from Darien” Facebook group timeline, some say dips in the pool were a rite of passage in the 1980s. Several say they were doing it in the 1970s. Two said they remembered sneaking into that pool way back in the 1960s. (Was there really a pool there in the 1960s?