Posted on 08/26/2019 12:21:13 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Oddly, we used to give them 'favorability'.
watch, she’ll convert to vegan now ...
I would suggest that the amount of oxygen at nose level depends on how deep the tank is, how far below surface the top of the tank is, how tall the person is and perhaps whether it was windy or not (and whether it was protected from winds by winds, trees etc)... there are lots of variables but most tanks are either 6 or 8 feet deep so she obviously was close enough to the hole where the lid normally goes that she got enough. The article also says that "...she had fallen through about a 2-foot by 2-foot hole in kind of the rusted metal top of the tank." Since she broke through, the hole was likely much larger than the standard 18" x 18" hole so even more oxygen came in. What I want to know is who on earth would have used a 'metal top'? Did they not know they were creating a death trap?
Attempted sewercide?
Septic tanks are supposed to be pumped out every 3 to 5 years. Sounds to me like she was just uncovering the lid so that the pump truck could have access. There is also a dam at the outflow of the first tank before it goes into the second tank.... those dams are notorious for breaking and it's a good idea to make sure that something is there to keep the raw sewage from the first tank from going straight into the second tank which is more for 'refinement' before it discharges into the weeping tiles....
Amazing that she was not killed by the toxic gas in that tank. Must have been some kind of ventilation.
~~ groan~~
She has all the experience she needs to head up the DCN now.
There was a 2x2 rusted out hole in the top, so that probably allowed enough oxygen in for her to just barely survive.
three days without water? Hmmm.
How’s your gag reflex?
I cleaned out my septic tanks not long ago. They’re deep and are dangerous. Need to be very cautious around them.
On the bright side, she didn’t have to go far to find the john.
“Cops got nothin to go on,.........”
The poor woman thought she died and moved to San Fransisco.
I had a teacher, very popular, who, years later, died of asphyxiation when he was working alone on his septic tank. The lady is lucky to be alive.
Metal septic tanks were common until sometime in the 1970s.The plumbers buried a metal septic tank outside my childhood home in 1960 as part of installing indoor toilet.Sometime in the late 1970s a hole appeared in the side yard. The tank rusted through and the sod fell in .Easily could have been a tragedy. The new one was concrete.
Steel tanks were lighter, cheaper and easier to handle but they polluted a lot of places with sewerage or gasoline.(The two most common uses of buried tanks.)
I would say they are all trapped in a septic tank. Except that they seem to want to stay there so I guess they are not trapped.
Was she in San Fran?
woman needs to buy a Collie and name him “Lassie” ...
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