Man Dies After Fall Into Chocolate Tank

MyFOX Philly ^ | 07/08/09

[Slings and Arrows]

Was the employee's name Lady Myra LeJeanne?

[A geek gold star if you get that one.]

[NonValueAdded]

I had an uncle that drowned in a vat of whiskey. They tried to rescue him 3 times but he fought them off bravely.

[Inclines to the Right]

Oh, I forgot that one! LOL Thanks!

I took my kids to see them several years ago. I remember it a clean act for which I was thankful. One can be funny without the filth.

Watch out for those pumas!

[annieokie]

You bet it will. I used to help my friend bottle their milk, once the vat had a fly in it, scoop it out and bottle anyway.

Then I worked in a theater, made popcorn. The always open oil vat had large roach floating, manager said scoop it out and continue. I never have eaten theater popcorn again.

[freespirited]

I think the most surprising part of this story is that there is a business in Camden!

When I was a kid, Campbell Soup was in Camden.

[Inclines to the Right]

Prayers and condolences to the co-workers, family and friends of this gentleman.

[GSWarrior]

This is sad but I can’t help but Snicker.

[Old Professer]

I got paid %50 for a picture of him once; it was back in 1969 or 70 and I was at Laguna Seca covering a Trans-Am race and taking a shot of Mark Donahue and the awards person, unnoticed by me was Dick Smothers in the background and when the magazine came out they had cropped out everything but a cameo of Smothers and blew it up on the page next to the article and supplied their caption — sneaky, huh?

I went back to my contact sheet and there he was, as’little’ as life off in the corner.

[Congressman Billybob]

The Smothers Brothers used to do a routine about a man who fell in a vat of chocolate and yelled “Fire,” because no one would react if he yelled “Chocolate.”

John / Billybob

[ChrisInAR]

I slightly remember “I Fell In A Vat Of Chocolate”...sort of, it’s been a while (did I get the name right?). The Smothers Brothers were considered to be pretty avant uarde back in their day, weren’t they?

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[Lady Jag]

That's real? I thought it was a story by Edgar Allen Poe!

[TXBlair]

This is sad but I can’t help but Snicker.

*groaning and rolling eyes*

[TheOldLady]

No. The entire vat will have to be destroyed and discarded and the insurance will replace it. Even if someone sticks one finger in the vat, out it goes. They’re very, very strict about that, or at least they used to be. [dredging up a memory from the early 1970’s]

[CougarGA7]

Yuck! I just finished a piece of Rocky Road chocolate, and my stomach is making funny movements.

OMG!! That means he didn't die!!

[Mr. Silverback]

The guy at lower right looks like John Kerry...poor bugger.

[Willie Green]

In the steel mills if this would happen they make an ingot or something and dump it along the rivers edge

If anybody happened to see him fall in.
Depending on the alloy, steel melts 2500~2800°F,
So it would've been a good way to get rid of Jimmy Hoffa so they would NEVER find him.

[Mr. Silverback]

OK, I give up. What’s the reference?

[TwoSue]

Chocolate to die for.

[wizr]

As I remember, he also pulled the wagon....