Posted on 10/14/2009 9:47:35 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Union City police say a homeless man sleeping in a recycling bin barely escaped with his life after the container was emptied into a compacting truck.
Union City police Lt. Kelly Musgrove says the man was nearly killed when he and the rest of the contents in bin outside a Taco Bell were emptied into the truck.
Musgrove says before the truck driver hit the compact button, he heard the man screaming and banging from inside the truck.
"He's lucky the employee was not listening to loud music," Lt. Kellly Musgrove told the San Jose Mercury News.
The homeless man was able to get out of the truck without being hurt.
Musgrove told the paper homeless people sometimes sleep inside recycling bins in cold weather because they are cleaner than garbage cans.
iPod Fails to Kill Homeless Man.
Man, that Paris Hilton has some kinky sex toys.
Should teach him not to be sleeping with the likes of Janeane Garofalo IMO.
Last year this guy was working as a VC.
Remind me not to do this after I become homeless next year. Though I could see the insulating value of garbage as opposed to sleeping on bare, hard ground.
You guys should get together, and work up a comedy routine.
He is lucky that the Taco Bell refuse didn’t kill him as well.
It must have been the joining up in 2000. Great year for a sense of humor.
I wonder how often this happens and we never know ? :-(
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