Does anyone know why people, presumably local people, had done this?
Because there is a significant proportion of the population who are shite. Some of them have boats. If that's the first time you've seen such self- destructive behaviour on the canals, you haven't been to Wigan. Or tens of other places I could name. But Wigan.
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