"Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm chocolate. Ugrgrgrgrgrgrggrhhhhh..."
Posted on 08/18/2006 1:24:32 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
KENOSHA, WI (AP) -- It might sound like a chocoholic's dream, but stepping into a vat of bubbling hot chocolate became a two-hour nightmare for a 21-year-old man Friday morning.
Donovan Garcia, an employee of a Kenosha company that supplies chocolate ingredients, said he was pushing the chocolate down into the vat at Debelis Corp. because it was stuck. But it became loose and he slid into the hopper, becoming trapped nearly chest-deep in the hot, thick, dark chocolate. The chocolate was 110 degrees, hotter than a hot tub, said Capt. Greg Sinnen of the Kenosha Fire Department.
"It was in my hair, in my ears, my mouth, everywhere," said Garcia, who has worked at the company for two years. "I felt like I weighed 900 pounds. I couldn't move."
Co-workers, police and firefighters tried to free Donovan but his pants were caught on a roller. They couldn't get him loose until the chocolate was thinned out. Garcia said his colleagues added cocoa butter to thin out the chocolate.
"It was pretty thick. It was virtually like quicksand," said Police Capt. Randy Berner.
Sinnen said firefighters helped scoop out the chocolate from the vat and when enough was removed, Garcia was able to take his pants off and be lifted out. By that time it was about 1:30 a.m., about two and a half hours after he fell in.
Garcia was taken to a nearby medial center for treatment for minor injuries and was later released.
yum! since the batch was spoiled, i wonder
if he got to take it home with him. ;)
The stuff that dreams are made of...
gag
Old joke:
"Mrs O'Reilly, I am saddened to tell you that your husband Seamus died at the Guinness plant. He fell into the brewing chamber and drowned. And a terrible struggle it was. Four times they pulled him out, before he climbed back in one last time."
Anybody else remember the old Smothers Brothers song about falling in a vat of chocolate? Tommy said he shouted "Fire" when he fell in, because nobody would have come if he'd shouted "Chocolate!"
I just hope they threw that vat of chocolate away. From now on, I'll be wonderin' where my chocolate has been.*~*
Really. I don't care how hot it was it was still chocolate. LOL!
Oompa Loompa doompadee doo.....
"when enough was removed, Garcia was able to take his pants off and be lifted out."
What the...?
Maybe he got to lick the bowl.
i would still ask for a doggie bag :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Molasses_Disaster
ya wanna spoon too ;)
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