Fishing with a mate at the local canal the other week, I nearly slipped in. He said I was lucky because loads of people drown in canals despite them often only being ~3-4 ft deep. I said at 6ft tall I'd just stand up.He argued the silt at the bottom is so slippery/deep you can't get traction to stand, which is supposedly why drownings happen. He linked these:https://www.dailypedia.net/2016/01/woman-occupied-phone-falls-drowns-river/Police said the water was only "chest deep" but the "thick sludge" could cause people to "slip and fall in.”And this:https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_1415824Police said the canal was "about chest-deep” but “the silt was very deep" and a person who fell in would "slip and be unable to stand up."Is that actually plausible, or exaggerated?
>>221894385Are you obsessed with the "canal pusher" urban legend?Or, by any chance, are you actually the canal pusher yourself?
actually an interdasting question but i'd direct you to >>>/out/defo leeches in there tho
