Serial Killer at large in Manchester?

[CityFan94]

Look at it this way.

Imagine 61 people had been run over and killed on a Manchester road over a 6 year period.

Do you think absolutely nothing would be done about it?

From 1999 to 2010 222 people were killed on Manchester roads - that's twice the rate that they die in the canals.

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There's a lot more roads and road users, not really a fair comparison, but that's still an insanely high number.

I'm talking about if there was 61 deaths on 1 or 2 roads (rather than over hundreds), would nothing be done about it?

 

[stony]

From 1999 to 2010 222 people were killed on Manchester roads - that's twice the rate that they die in the canals.

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It's not really a fair comparison.
How many miles of road are there and how many road users? compared to how many miles of canal and how many people walk along the canal?

Is it not Manchester's waterways?

Still doesn't compare with the road network or the amount of traffic it gets.

 

[mindmyp's_n_q's]

It's not really a fair comparison.
How many miles of road are there and how many road users? compared to how many miles of canal and how many people walk along the canal?

Is it not Manchester's waterways?

Still doesn't compare with the road network or the amount of traffic it gets.

But it does mean every canal, lake, stream, pond, river, reservoir, pool, mere in the whole of Greater Manchester and not just Canals though.

 

[DelToro]

It's not really a fair comparison.
How many miles of road are there and how many road users? compared to how many miles of canal and how many people walk along the canal?

Is it not Manchester's waterways?

Still doesn't compare with the road network or the amount of traffic it gets.

Most of the road deaths will be unconnected to drinking whereas a significant number of the canal deaths are related to drink.

 

[mcfcinprague]

Is it not Manchester's waterways?

Still doesn't compare with the road network or the amount of traffic it gets.

Most of the road deaths will be unconnected to drinking whereas a significant number of the canal deaths are related to drink.

Drowning by any other name :)

 

[aguero93:20]

Anyone heard from Gornik Daze?

 

[cleavers]

Looks like our canal killer may have moved down to Coventry....

Canals in Coventry are to be searched in a bid to find a missing student from Nigeria, police have said.

Ozeivo Akerele, 24, was last seen at the city's Iglu nightclub on Spon Street, at 03:30 GMT on 31 January.

He had started a Masters degree at Coventry University, just weeks after arriving in the UK.

Officers handed out flyers to Coventry City fans outside the Ricoh Arena on Saturday and said they planned to focus on canals in the area next week.

Mr Akerele's mother, meanwhile, has been handing out flyers in the city centre.

"The police are trying their best, but we don't have information to work on," she said.

"I believe my son is alive. I don't know where he is, but I know he'll come out alive."

Mrs Akerele was due to fly home to Abuja last week, but said she planned to stay until he was found.

"I've been phoning my other children at home and searching Coventry for Ozzy," she said.

"I have not considered going home without him."
Irene Akerele Irene Akerele has been searching Coventry in a bid to find her son

West Midlands Police believe Mr Akerele may have been on the Foleshill Road, between Park Street and the A444, at about 07:00 on the 31 January.

He called friends for a lift from Coventry University but when the car arrived he was not there and has not been seen since.

Mr Akerele is described as black, 6ft 2ins tall and slim. He was last seen wearing jeans, blue and white Converse trainers and a grey or black jacket.

 

[Hamann Pineapple]

He's pushed a car in now ! RIP car

 

[bammy blue]

He's pushed a car in now ! RIP car

Hopefully Jimmy and Alan are in it.......

 

[unsworthblue]

Not read through the whole thread but it's got me thinking about European cities like Manchester and comparing our City to somewhere where I associate with canals,let's say Amsterdam seeing as though I was there recently! Now Amsterdam is a hotbed of criminality,drug users and generally a favourite gathering place for people who want to get off their tits! I've not researched the figures for canal associated deaths in Amsterdam but I'll hazard a guess and say its nothing like as bad as the figures in gods own city,something sinister is going on in my humble opinion

 

[silverback]

Can't see off the photo, could it be a Marina?

 

[cleavers]

Hopefully Jimmy and Alan are in it.......

That's very wrong, but quite funny :)

 

[unsworthblue]

51 canal associated deaths in 3 yrs in Amsterdam so maybe I'm wrong,thinking about it you could quite easily get pissed and mooch off on your jack,next thing your having a piss into a canal,fall into the canal and never get out?

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

51 canal associated deaths in 3 yrs in Amsterdam so maybe I'm wrong,thinking about it you could quite easily get pissed and mooch off on your jack,next thing your having a piss into a canal,fall into the canal and never get out?

Youve gone from thinking something is sinister because it sounds exciting, to reading some actual statistics and seeing sense in one hour.

 

[unsworthblue]

51 canal associated deaths in 3 yrs in Amsterdam so maybe I'm wrong,thinking about it you could quite easily get pissed and mooch off on your jack,next thing your having a piss into a canal,fall into the canal and never get out?

Youve gone from thinking something is sinister because it sounds exciting, to reading some actual statistics and seeing sense in one hour.

Bloody hell mate,I would never think 60 odd deaths were exciting you sick twat!do you? Frightening statistics is all I can say

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

51 canal associated deaths in 3 yrs in Amsterdam so maybe I'm wrong,thinking about it you could quite easily get pissed and mooch off on your jack,next thing your having a piss into a canal,fall into the canal and never get out?

Youve gone from thinking something is sinister because it sounds exciting, to reading some actual statistics and seeing sense in one hour.

Bloody hell mate,I would never think 60 odd deaths were exciting you sick twat!do you? Frightening statistics is all I can say

Sensationalist then, thats probably a better word. And please dont call me a twat, I didnt swear at you. Thankyou

 

[unsworthblue]

Youve gone from thinking something is sinister because it sounds exciting, to reading some actual statistics and seeing sense in one hour.

Bloody hell mate,I would never think 60 odd deaths were exciting you sick twat!do you? Frightening statistics is all I can say

Sensationalist then, thats probably a better word. And please dont call me a twat, I didnt swear at you. Thankyou

Ever so sorry sweet cheeks xxx. At least I said I was wrong,a rare thing on blue moon were everyone is right! I quite enjoy being wrong it makes us all stronger to be wrong! United for the title!!!!!

 

[PinkFinal]

One man a month ends up drowned in the canal and there's nothing to see? Come off it, GMP.

Three students died in a year in Durham and the place was up in arms: the uni, press, dibble, local TV, Search and Rescue, the lot. Or is it only posh kids that count? Pissed up, high or what, people deserve protection.

You either haven't a bean to go on and are in sore need of a Manc Aquaman, or you're keeping something from us. The police are fucked in the Mancunian public eye, either way. You appear stupified, impotent and badly lacking in investigative ability. Remember Yorkshire in the seventies? How many bollocks were dropped due to egos, oversights and sheer incompetence? DO SOMETHING.

I think increasingly the underclass don't matter.
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Incidentally there is programme about this guy starting soon on Sky Atlantic

 

[Le Havre Oswald]

CTN.

 

[worsleyweb]

Just walked down the canal from Ancoats to Town and back - they are lethal - didn't feel safe during the day sober. At night and pissed they are literally an accident waiting to happen. Barriers needed all along.