MAGNET FISHING
All you need is a strong magnet on a
rope and you can earn quite a few quid in scrap metal, or even a fortune, like
that bloke who found a safe full of cash.
The rope must have got tangled and
the lad fell in trying to free it, then his dad went in after him and they
couldn’t get out.
The canal walls here are slimy
slopes. There is a ladder but it’s round that corner – they probably never knew
it was there.
Drowned, both of them, in five feet
of mucky water. Doesn’t bear thinking about, does it?
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Thanks to Fatima Fakier Daria for this week's photo on Rochelle's blog https://rochellewisoff.com/ for Friday Fictioneers.
My story is what I imagine a local might say to a visitor or a reporter about a dreadful accident in the North of England which took the lives of a father and son this week.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/magnet-fishing-dead-father-son-huddersfield-canal-river-calder-west-yorkshire-a8404026.html
