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Okay, the story I'm going to do this week I'm really excited about because one of my guilty pleasure TV shows is catfish. I love catfish. This centers around two boys. They were both teenagers

and they're going to be referred to as John and Mark as they were referred to as

media coverage at the time.

Their names as still as yet.

I haven't been able to find their real names released.

Not that would go digging too much, to be honest, because I think if you

fuck up when you're 14 you should be allowed to forget about it.

Depends how bad you fuck up. Well we'll let you judge when I told you the story.

Okay.

So the 29th of June in 2003, so very early, not very early internet days, but in terms of like kids going on for social media,

it was in the beginning stages, it was like your MSN.

So when you used to say ASL meaning in age sex location.

Yeah, like we just throw it out there.

There's no time for us to have actual sentence words.

Yeah, we were like, we know that you are an absolute random so

ASL and I all decide if I want to have a conversation with you.

So yeah, 29 through 2003, it was in Altringham, which is near Manchester,

a 14 year old John was stabbed in an alleyway behind some shops and he had a

stab into the stomach which could have proved fatal if his best friend 16 year old

Mark hadn't called the emergency services.

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