The Tweet comes courtesy of the nice folks at the Canal & River Trust West Midlands, who are responsible for maintaining the network of canals that weave through this part of England. As they explain on their website: Wow! Depending on how you measure it, Birmingham alone has more canals than Venice. If you’d have asked me how deep these were I’d have guessed about six-to-eight feet and I’d have been wrong by about half. According to this website they’re about four feet deep, which is confirmed by this Land Rover Discovery (L319) on its side.
— Canal & River Trust West Midlands (@CRTWestMidlands) November 14, 2022 This wasn’t some strange driving accident but, instead, the BBC reports that vehicle is “thought to be stolen” and the thief (or thieves) drove up to the side of the canal and pushed it in, causing the canal system to have to shut at that point. The Discovery 4 has a wading depth of about 28 inches, but it probably wasn’t rated on its side. The people who run the canal system, understandably, aren’t happy about it:
— Lee Bates (@CRT_Lee) November 14, 2022 Don’t dump cars in canals! Update: The Land Rover has been removed. I repeat, the Land Rover has been removed.
— Lee Bates (@CRT_Lee) November 14, 2022 Photo via Canal & River Trust West Midlands Recently washed and detailed interior Undercarriage washed and cleaned All systems flushed out Land Rover Wading Capable Current MOT Clean Title Please, absolutely no low ballers, I’m well aware of what I have, dear chap Well, only about 2/3 of it. In Ingurland that’d be deceptive marketing. Ruined my weekend plans Try cuts in social support, draconian benefit reductions, lower numbers of police (and a corresponding lower quality of candidates because decent people don’t want to do the job so they’ve ended up recruiting trash – the several high profile scandals in various forces show this), rampant wealth inequality (that’s getting worse), a lack of opportunities for the underprivileged, a cost of living crisis, oh and let’s not forget the utter shambles that is mental health support in this country. Our long and proud history of diversity has nothing to do with it. https://www.theautopian.com/i-confronted-volvos-head-designer-about-the-companys-egregious-decision-to-require-a-touchscreen-button-to-open-the-ex90s-glovebox/comment-page-1/#comment-76855 Dump him. But where to? Hmmm…wasn’t there a penal colony somewhere in the southern hemisphere? “8th–Note says: November 7, 2022 at 2:17 pm we need more White kids in this country +1 Reply “zeppelopodzeppelopod says: November 8, 2022 at 2:47 am you dropped the /s +7 Reply “8th–Note8th–Note says: November 8, 2022 at 9:46 am no /s involved. its the only way to save this country.” ———————————————— “8th–Note says: October 27, 2022 at 10:58 am but the great thing about a lack of diversity is that there are very low crime rates.” —————————————- Probably not this one, it’s just a symptom of how badly a guy who probably really is from Appalachia is eager to let himself be lied to: “8th–Note says: October 26, 2022 at 12:28 pm Russia had good reason to liberate its citizens in Donetsk and Luhansk from the despotic and illegitimate Ukrainian govt that was installed by a US led violent overthrow of an elected leader.” ——————————————— His information sources are truly top notch: “8th–Note says: October 26, 2022 at 10:38 am now we just have entire boer families being slaughtered with impunity on their farms.” ————————————— Good to see you’re keeping the receipts; you have to stamp out this proto-fash nonsense quickly. Karl Popper’s paradox of tolerance, and all that.
