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  • Mexican man compacted by garbage truck headed south, thanks to donors

    12/23/2004 7:34:32 AM PST · by Rakkasan1 · 33 replies · 983+ views
    Pioneer Press ^ | 12-23-04 | AP
    MANKATO, Minn. -- A wayward Mexican man who hopped a few wrong trains and ended up in a garbage truck in Mankato is headed back to warmer climates, thanks to the help of strangers. Juan Rivera, 46, left his home in Juarez, Mexico, last week. He slipped into El Paso, Texas and went to Riverside, Calif., to look for a temporary job. When he couldn't find work, he asked someone which train headed back to El Paso. But the train went to the wrong city. So he got on another train, then another. Somehow he ended up in Mankato in...