When four local youths set off on a pleasant boat trip across Moseley Lake little did they realise the catalogue of horrors they were about to unleash. Thinking that such a trip would take maybe an hour or two they packed only the barest of provisions. A decision that cost two of the unlucky youngsters their very lives. One of the survivors told us in an exclusive interview “It was shortly after we set off that it all went horribly wrong. We’re not sure why it stopped, it might have been a big fish ramming the propeller, but it stopped. We could see land but as none of us could swim and I had me new trainers on so we thought we’d wait for help. When it started to get dark we began to get worried. Ray was panicking and shouting at the big houses on Chantry Road but they just couldn’t hear us…..they couldn’t hear us. We tried to use mobile phones but you can’t get any reception in Moseley, it was useless.”
After three days rescue came in the form of a local dog walker who waded out and pushed the boat to safety. Unfortunately it was too late for two of the group who died of fear.
A spokesman for local mobile phone provider Orange told us “Boats are an outmoded form of transport therefore this has nothing to do with us.”
Eye on Moseley says “Give us better mobile phone reception. Children are our future so how many more must die before action is taken?”
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