It's 2009, not 1959, right?

[xela]

Pool boots kids who might 'change the complexion'.

Someone in Philadelphia completely failed to notice that the last 50 years happened.

(Hat-tip to dpolicar.)

Comments

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

The club pulled its web site.

[dcltdw]

Pulled, or got slashdotted? Or intentionally DDoSed?

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

Hard to be sure, but a consistent 403, even down to the sub-pages?

Likely, just pulled.

I bet they are priced at a small scale data plan, and the news has barfed their levels to out-of-budget.

[ckd]

And they did so with as much sensitivity as they displayed in the comment about "changing the complexion":

Error 403 - Forbidden
You tried to access a document for which you don't have privileges.

In other words, get out of our pool website.

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

"On the Internet, no one knows that you're white".

Let's hear it for insufficient white privilege! :-)

[rax.livejournal.com]

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Campers-Complexion-No-Problem-for-New-Pool.html

So that's something, at least.

[yakshaver.livejournal.com]

Yeah. That's a nice turn of karma. And it's a total win for Girard College: They make a little money renting our pool out on a day they weren't using it. They get to be the (forgive me) white knight. And they score a giant PR bonanza. It's like they hit the trifecta.