Posted on 03/28/2008 2:25:55 PM PDT by kingattax
MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) - A man nearly crushed inside a garbage truck told police he can't recall how he ended up inside a trash bin - and then the truck - after a night of drinking with friends.
William M. Bowen, 27, awoke about 6:30 a.m. Thursday to find that he was inside a commercial trash-collection truck filled with waste.
A Rumpke garbage truck driver had emptied a bin behind the Muncie Eye Center into his truck and was about to activate its trash compressor when he heard someone screaming.
"He looked up and this gentleman was standing out the top of our truck," said Larry Green, market safety supervisor for Rumpke.
Green said the only thing Bowen said to the driver who found him was that he was cold.
"This gentleman was extremely intoxicated," he said.
Bowen told police the last thing he remembers before waking up in the truck was drinking with buddies about 3 a.m. Thursday at a Muncie bar.
Bowen, who wouldn't tell police who his drinking pals were, was treated and released with minor injuries from Ball Memorial Hospital.
Green said Bowen was lucky that wasn't seriously injured or killed in the trash compressor.
"I'm just glad it turned out the way it did," Green said. "We didn't have a body that was dead. We had a body that was talking."
There was no telephone listing for Bowen in the Muncie area.
Just when think that you were the only person that ever happened to.
This could be his first step on the road to sobriety.
He’s lucky to be alive.
It would cure me.
This is what Larry Miller would call, “Level 5.”
As comedian Dave Attell would say: “Jager!”
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ROTFLMAO!!! And I'm a fat guy! LOL
Personally, if I were in this fella's shoes, I'd take this experience as a message from God.
Almost a Darwin Award winner...
Some poor lawyer missed a payday suing the garbage collector.
I think he wants to handle them himself.
‘”I’m just glad it turned out the way it did,” Green said. “We didn’t have a body that was dead. We had a body that was talking.” ‘
Genius.
Maybe a lawyer paid him a sandwich to go into the garbage truck...hoping for better results
dontcha hate when that happens
You know you had to much drink the night before when.....
Reminds me of the heroin adict who shot-up and fell asleep in a warehouse on a pallet of bags. When he woke up he was air dropped inside serbian war zone. The pallet of bags was food aid.
You can get crushed by either....
I wonder-how long does it take someone like that to figure out that it’s not just another bad trip?
I just hate it when that happens.
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