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Posted on 09/03/2026 11:30:33 AM PDT by DFG
San Francisco firefighters rescued a man trapped inside a garbage truck early Wednesday morning after he was accidentally loaded into the vehicle along with the contents of a dumpster.
The rescue occurred near the intersection of Mason and Eddy streets.
According to San Francisco Fire Capt. Mariano Elias, the drama began around 4:10 a.m. when a Recology driver picked up a dumpster and emptied it into the back of his truck. Firefighters said the man had been digging around inside the dumpster before it was dumped into the vehicle.
Shouting for help
Bystanders immediately flagged down the Recology truck after hearing the man shouting and calling for help from inside the garbage container. The driver used the vehicle's compactor once before realizing someone was trapped.
Twenty-five firefighters responded to the scene and had to manually pull out the truck's contents to reach the victim, who was completely buried under a giant pile of debris. Firefighters said the Recology operator had used the compactor at least once, and it's unclear if the man was injured by the machine.
While the man remained trapped, paramedics managed to reach his arm through the trash to administer medication through an IV for his injuries.
After roughly two hours, firefighters freed the conscious man and transported him to a hospital.
The full extent and cause of his injuries remain unclear, including whether they resulted from the fall, being buried, or the compactor mechanism. One firefighter sustained a minor cut to his hand during the rescue efforts.
Recology workers later used construction equipment to clear the giant pile of trash left in the street and load it back into a dumpster.
Firefighters plan to interview the man at the hospital to determine what he was doing in the dumpster prior to the incident.
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Allow me to assist…
he was just trying to travel around San Fransicko without slipping and falling in all the sheit on the streets there
No doubt some shyster will get him to sue the company.
“..And THAT, my children, is why we never ever take our mid day naps or play Hide & Seek inside of a garbage dumpster. It doesn’t matter what you’ve seen SpongeBob do in those cartoons!”
In Mother Freako, dumpster dives you!
Poor guy is going to have fear of dumpsters for the rest of his life.
Dumpster diving can be more dangerous than deep sea diving.
The Sam Peninpah classic The Getaway had Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw (his real life wife) hide in a dumpster which was then loaded into the garbage truck where the compression phase was turned on.
Movie had superior gunfights and is one of my favorites. McQueen taught Ali because she couldn’t drive and she did several stunt drive sequences so the film would look realistic.
Hiding in the trash.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyCvZZ7_P-M
“Firefighters plan to interview the man at the hospital to determine what he was doing in the dumpster prior to the incident.”
Many times, sleeping. Others hunting food or little things they can use.
wy69
No way he did not hear the truck pulling up. Those things are loud.
At first, I wondered if ICE was taking out the trash. However, the truth is stranger than fiction with dumpster-diving as the problem.
They undoubtedly left out the part where the guy is a bum, crazy, and undoubtedly stoned and drunk.
That is what I thought but I am old and cynical.
Meh, Star Wars (the OG) did it better.
Plus, there was a wookie and Carrie Fisher in a wet white robe without a bra.
whole new meaning to “he was trashed”
Who writes these pieces? Cannot get over how badly this is written.
And this information is from 2 contiguous sentences:
...it’s unclear if the man was injured by the machine.
While the man remained trapped, paramedics managed to reach his arm through the trash to administer medication through an IV for his injuries.
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