British canals are about 3 to 4 feet deep.
In these videos you can see they can easily stand up. I don’t condone pushing people into canals, the water is filthy, but unless you’re unconscious (why or how would you be wandering into a canal while unconscious, anyway?) you aren’t going to drown, you’d just stand up. UK canals do not have currents to sweep you off your feet, the water is still and stagnant, so they’re basically like dirty paddling pools.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-ADrtYu_zE
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_RfR14yLM4
Are canals like the UK’s version of quicksand? The average person isn’t going to drown if they are conscious and fall into a paddling pool that’s only waist-deep.
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
Didn’t you ask this same question a bunch of times like a week ago? Do you just not accept the answers that everyone gave? Is this some sort of weird crusade for you?
marighost@piefed.social 14 hours ago
I’m fairly sure this is a different account owned by the same individual. They are a very strange individual.
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
The did the same thing last I saw - people were commenting that he’d posted the same story from multiple accounts. They pointed out that all of the sources were trash/conspiracy sites, and explained why it’s not that weird, but he just keeps posting it over and over.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 hours ago
I can’t help but wonder if they’re from the area (or the UK at all) or if this is a fixation on two people they don’t even know. I’d be pretty upset if a stranger kept posting repeatedly about my family member’s death like that, like it’s not already upsetting enough to have someone you know die without a random person on the internet trying to use their death to rile everyone up.
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
Certainly seems to have issues
MissKiwi@feddit.uk 14 hours ago
I don’t know about you, but if I had a family member die and the news narrative was equivalent to “fell out of a window”, I’d be upset too, and would want to know the truth.