{"id":375153,"date":"2026-07-16T06:36:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T06:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/375153\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T06:36:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T06:36:28","slug":"watch-pole-dancing-accident-floods-two-houston-apartments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/375153\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Pole dancing accident floods two Houston apartments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 15 (UPI) &#8212; A Houston woman said she is done practicing pole dancing at home after a mishap led to two apartments being flooded.<\/p>\n<p>Asha Gilbert was filming her pole dancing practice July 6 at her west Houston apartment when the pole came loose from the ceiling and struck a fire sprinkler.\n<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DaeD82KBoo2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">video shows<\/a> water spraying out of the sprinkler to flood Gilbert&#8217;s apartment and that of a neighbor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Immediately, I&#8217;m in shock because I&#8217;m like, &#8216;Oh my gosh, this cannot be happening to me,'&#8221; Gilbert <a href=\"https:\/\/abc13.com\/post\/pole-dancing-mishap-leads-water-damage-multiple-apartment-units\/19509351\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told KTRK-TV.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gilbert said she had only installed the pole three days earlier.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t even a thought that it could possibly hit the sprinkler,&#8221; Gilbert said. &#8220;We were more worried about it hitting a wall.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She said her furniture was ruined and she had to move to another unit due to the damage. Gilbert said her downstairs neighbor was understanding about the water damage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I explained everything, and she was very, very cool and understanding, and I appreciated that,&#8221; Gilbert said.<\/p>\n<p>She said she will not be pole dancing at home anymore.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 15 (UPI) &#8212; A Houston woman said she is done practicing pole dancing at home after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4892,56,58,57,4890,4891],"class_list":["post-375153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-funny","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-odd","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}