{"id":96,"date":"2005-08-04T19:19:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-04T19:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trite101.wordpress.com\/2005\/08\/04\/moseley-park-and-fool\/"},"modified":"2005-08-04T19:19:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-04T19:19:00","slug":"moseley-park-and-fool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eyeonmoseley.co.uk\/?p=96","title":{"rendered":"Moseley Park and Fool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/6269\/1387\/1600\/lake.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;cursor:pointer;margin:0 0 10px 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/6269\/1387\/320\/lake.jpg?w=1080\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWhen 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 &#8220;It was shortly after we set off that it all went horribly wrong. We&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8217;t hear us\u2026..they couldn&#8217;t hear us. We tried to use mobile phones but you can&#8217;t get any reception in Moseley, it was useless.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for local mobile phone provider Orange told us &#8220;Boats are an outmoded form of transport therefore this has nothing to do with us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Eye on Moseley says &#8220;Give us better mobile phone reception. Children are our future so how many more must die before action is taken?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[22,65,77],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-story","tag-chantry-road","tag-mobile","tag-moseley-park"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2okCM-1y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeonmoseley.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeonmoseley.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeonmoseley.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeonmoseley.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeonmoseley.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeonmoseley.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeonmoseley.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeonmoseley.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeonmoseley.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}