Posted on 10/22/2009 9:43:22 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Police in Philadelphia say a homeless man sleeping in a trash bin wound up in the back of a garbage truck and was killed by the vehicle's compactor.
Investigators say the truck collected the contents of the trash bin at about 4 a.m. Wednesday in North Philadelphia. The truck's driver activated the compactor a little later.
Police say the driver told officers he thought he heard someone say, "Yo! Yo! Yo!" but did not know where the voice was coming from. He heard the cry again, fainter, at his next stop and alerted authorities.
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This guy didn't have the brains to yell "Help, I'm being crushed!" or something other than "homeboy", street language?
This guy didn't have the brains to yell "Help, I'm being crushed!" or something other than "homeboy", street language?
Odds are the poor guy was probably still drunk or badly hungover at the time.
Bummer.
Clearly we need more regulation of trash truck and posible a ‘Trash Truck Czar’.
Poor man. What a horrible way to die.
How horrible.
I can’t even imagine a death like this.
These things are not quick. *shiver*
prayers for the homeless man, and for the trashmen, they must be going through hell right now.
Too much celebrating last night I guess.
This is, unfortunately, not all that uncommon. I’ve heard of at least a half-dozen similar cases over the years. Most of the incidents happened in cold weather months like this case. The dumpsters provide shelter from the worst of the elements, and give homeless guys a place that the police can’t easily spot them. Terribly dangerous and foolish thing to do, of course. But it happens.
WHAT? Is this the extent of common vocabulary now days? How about, "HELP I'M IN THE BACK OF THE TRASH TRUCK!!" screamed at the top of ones lungs repeatedly!
Now that I go back and read your post, I see I’m not the only one who thought this.
Sadness.
| This is, unfortunately, not all that uncommon. I’ve heard of at least a half-dozen similar cases over the years. Yes, it happens more often than you may know. Growing up in Chicago, we'd hear about it once or twice a month. Falling asleep in a dumpster and being crushed by the compactor is a bum's worst fear — other than, of course,
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Tee hee! The red pick-up somehow looks familiar.........
By removing my comment (#8) but leaving my name on all those who replied to it, and leaving the partial quote of it in #14, it makes it look like I was laughing at the death of this man.
For the record, I wasn't.
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