The Pusher Strikes Again, Apparantly

[Bewildered]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3421145/Has-Pusher-struck-Man-s-body-Greater-Manchester-canal-fears-serial-killer-claimed-29th-victim.html

[WotEver]

Bizarre.

[John Holden]

Bizarre.

 

No another word beginning with B.

[bigcol]

What's the world coming to

Sad

[Arthur Marshall]

It's the Mail. Even sadder.

[Bewildered]

It's the Mail. Even sadder.

The Mail is brilliant; but only if you read the headline then go straight to the comments section and tottaly ignore the rubbish story

[magictime]

Essential viewing!

 

Edited January 28, 2016 by magictime

[zigspider]

Essential viewing!

 

Erm.. No it isn't.

[magictime]

Erm.. No it isn't.

 

Oh well, no accounting for taste, I suppose. I think he skewers the Mail rather nicely.

[DHutch]

Daily fail!

[Lily Rose]

Well maybe the pusher exists, maybe he (or she?) doesn't, I don't know.

 

But if they do exist they must be bloody efficient at their chosen method of mass killing, otherwise how have they managed to ensure that not one of their victims lived to tell the tale? It's hard to see how pushing nearly 30 people into a canal resulted in a 100% success rate.

[furnessvale]

Well maybe the pusher exists, maybe he (or she?) doesn't, I don't know.

 

But if they do exist they must be bloody efficient at their chosen method of mass killing, otherwise how have they managed to ensure that not one of their victims lived to tell the tale? It's hard to see how pushing nearly 30 people into a canal resulted in a 100% success rate.

Concrete boots?

 

Though not on most narrow canals of course. The water would only be up to the victims waist.

 

Thinking about it, make that a concrete crash helmet!

 

George nb Alton retired

[Paul G2]

Well maybe the pusher exists, maybe he (or she?) doesn't, I don't know.

 

But if they do exist they must be bloody efficient at their chosen method of mass killing, otherwise how have they managed to ensure that not one of their victims lived to tell the tale? It's hard to see how pushing nearly 30 people into a canal resulted in a 100% success rate.

 

You just don't watch enough tv, or read enough crime novels...

 

Obviously (lol), the Pusher wears a wet suit under a long overcoat and wears Wellies that he can get on and off real easy. The Pusher follows, or joins, his prey for a while until the opportune time when he sheds his overcoat and runs at the victim who is standing on the edge of the canal. The Pusher is a big bloke and, when he lands on top of someone as they hit the water, the wind is knocked out of the victim, who immediately inhales two lungs full of water and drowns without ever putting up much if any fight. The pusher is able to hold the person underwater just by sitting on them, so there are very few signs of a struggle.

 

After the deed is done, the Pusher climbs out of the canal, empties his Wellies, retrieves his hat and coat and disappears into the night.

 

Motive: The Pusher is raging fundamentalist homophope. The men he kills he perceives as being gay, regardless of if they actually are or not, and he believes that he is baptising his victims at the same time he drowns them, but that's okay because what he is really doing is sending them to heaven by killing them because he knows they would return to their sinful ways if they went free. So baptism then death and no chance to sin is a sure ticket through the pearly gates for his victims. In his mind, he is doing them a favor by saving their souls.

 

Hmmm - that sounds like a good start for a screen play....

 

or at least the basis for an urban legend.

[Bee]

 

 

the Pusher wears a wet suit under a long overcoat and wears Wellies that he can get on and off real easy. The Pusher follows, or joins, his prey for a while until the opportune time when he sheds his overcoat and runs at the victim who is standing on the edge of the canal. The Pusher is a big bloke and, when he lands on top of someone as they hit the water, the wind is knocked out of the victim, who immediately inhales two lungs full of water and drowns without ever putting up much if any fight. The pusher is able to hold the person underwater just by sitting on them, so there are very few signs of a struggle.

 

 

 

or at least the basis for an urban legend.

That's how its done!, I believe it! It must be true, I saw it on the internet!

[Southern Star]

Daily fail!

The reason people read the Daily Mail is that it is not behind a paywall. Although, like all newspapers and broadcasters including the BBC it does put across the views of its owner and has a slant, for politically neutral stories it can generally be considered to be fairly reliable. The simple fact is that there have been numerous drowning deaths in Manchester canals, out of all proportion with canal drowning deaths in London or Birmingham, and the Police would be failing in their duty if they did not ask themselves why this was. The reason Andrei Chikatilo got away with murdering so many people was that the Soviet authorities simply refused to believe that such a killer could exist.

[cuthound]

Where Miss Marple when you need her?

[John Holden]

The reason people read the Daily Mail is that it is not behind a paywall. Although, like all newspapers and broadcasters including the BBC it does put across the views of its owner and has a slant, for politically neutral stories it can generally be considered to be fairly reliable. The simple fact is that there have been numerous drowning deaths in Manchester canals, out of all proportion with canal drowning deaths in London or Birmingham, and the Police would be failing in their duty if they did not ask themselves why this was. The reason Andrei Chikatilo got away with murdering so many people was that the Soviet authorities simply refused to believe that such a killer could exist.

 

For a start, drownings in Greater Manchester, not Manchester.

They aren't out of proportion with anywhere, with about 175 miles of waterways the figure is lower than you would expect, not higher. They are not canal related but waterway related, that includes rivers etc.

[Emerald Fox]

Where Miss Marple when you need her?

 

Halfway down the Marple Locks? She's on her way...