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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?

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Old Tradition: Illicit Swims in Middlesex Rd Pool; New Wrinkle: Expected Arrests

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For the past two decades, teenagers have been sneaking nighttime dips in a swimming pool on Middlesex Road, but after two recent escapades, police found cars parked nearby when called to the scene — so charges may be coming. Darien police gave this account of the aquatic incidents, which took place at a location which will remain undisclosed (at least here) for the obvious reason:

The pool on the property of the residence is fenced in and has no-trespassing signs easy for trespassers to read, and there is continuous video surveillance on the property, as well, but the uninvited nighttime visits have continued, including two recent incursions on Aug. 19 and 27. The pool, perhaps 10 feet deep, is said to be designed to look like a lagoon. The Darien police scuba team has used it to practice (with permission).