• neidu3@sh.itjust.works
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    Mod notice: Thread has been locked and OP has been banned with the following message for the modlog:

    OP has had this question answered numerous times through many repeated questions on multiple boards through multiple sockpuppet accounts. Touch grass.

    Further posts in a similar manner will have the same result.

    • Kiwigirl@lemmy.cabanned_from_community_badgeOP
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      Because people, including a disabled man, died under suspicious circumstances, the media is making up a narrative that is so implausible it’s laughable, and if there is a killer holding people under, they’re getting away with it?

      No healthy, conscious adult is likely to drown after falling into a canal. They’re 2 to 4 foot deep. If you fall in you’ll just stand up, soaking wet.

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        No healthy, conscious adult is likely to drown after falling into a canal. They’re 2 to 4 foot deep. If you fall in you’ll just stand up, soaking wet.

        This may be a shock, but there’s a reason marked on almost every pool is:

        Shallow End. No diving

        It’s because if someone jumps into shallow water, they may hit their head and drown. This is especially dangers in pools that are all shallow end (or canals) because there usually isn’t anyone watching like at a deep body of water.

        People aren’t walking out and laying down to drown, they’re not swimming and drowning.

        They’re jumping in, hitting their heads.

        If someone with verbal palsey jumps in, that’s absolutely deep enough for them to drown whoever is saving them while trying not to drown.

        Drowning because someone tried to save a drowning person is also very common.

        Nothing about any of this is weird, you just don’t understand it

        And you’re asking by spamming Facebook conspiracy memes

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        Assuming this is bothering you so much, what actions are you taking to prevent these deaths? Are you taking direct action such as vigils or taking rescue courses, joining the local fire and rescue dept? or are you just sitting inside conspiracy posting online with no proof to back any of your claims?

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    It’s not terribly intuitive, but people can drown in as little as 6 inches of water.

    Panic, inebriation, hitting their head on rocks so they’re face down and unconscious in the water, sudden medical episodes, maybe one or both of them were injured and/or disabled and/or elderly and unable to lift themselves out.

    Often a flailing drowning person can drag a rescuer down with them, or someone who isn’t in the best of shape for the previously listed reasons can die trying to rescue the other.

    The person on pictured on the left, presumably one of the victims, looks to be about in their late 50s or 60s, and you’d be surprised how bad shape they can be in, even before injury and inebriation come into play.

    Ask me how I know.

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    You are really trying to push a narrative that you can’t drown in a canal.

    Between alcohol, rocks and the height between the edge and bottom of a canal you absolutely can drown because you can’t move from an injury.

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      Some people never think why pools say “shallow end, no diving” …

      So they assume canals are safe to jump into, because if they weren’t, there’d be signs everywhere.

      The signage doesn’t make something dangerous, and the absence of signs don’t make something safe.

      It shouldn’t be complicated but for some it is

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    Now I want to hit you on the head, throw you into water and see if you will magically know where the surface is and get out on yourself.