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1mon 5d ago by lemmy.cafe/u/Talonflame in askuk@feddit.uk
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.cafe/post/35239389
If you're pushed in it'll be no different to being pushed into one of those kid's pools. Are all these people being pushed in and drowning less than 3 feet tall so they can't touch the bottom?
If someone said "watch out, there's a canal pusher about", I'd say "yeah, my brand new Levis would totally drown in that dirty, elongated kiddy pool. The canal pusher is a murderer alright, murdering perfectly good clothes."
I read a story in a local Bedford paper a few years ago about a guy whose healthy, twenty year old son died after falling into the river. He went into shock as soon as he hit the water and sank like a rock. I'd take a canal pusher seriously, me.
Like, shock. It's a circulatory condition. The river is like half a metre deep most of the time.
I'd be less worried in good weather, but it's still a risk. It can get cold though, out that way.