THaT STiNKS!

FoBoT

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http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hnKHnQDxXkDJSK0nNkRHvLLRhvygD9CFE09G0
Man stable after being stuck 4 hours in cesspool
(AP) – 19 hours ago
EAST HILLS, N.Y. — A man was rescued after spending more than four hours Tuesday trapped up to his chest in sand and soil after falling into a Long Island cesspool, authorities said.

http://wcbstv.com/topstories/cesspool.rescue.roslyn.2.1357085.html
It was a dramatic and courageous effort involving nearly 100 rescue workers from dozens of departments that saved the life of a young worker, who was buried at times up to his chin in sand and dirt when a new cesspool that he and two excavators were building in front of a home in East Hills.

"When we got here we did in fact have a gentleman 35-feet down in the cesspool who was trapped, buried about chest level, and we also had a co-worker who was down there trying to assist him," said Chief Salvatore Mirra of the Roslyn Fire Company.

Witnesses watched at the man, who appeared to be about 30 years old, fought for his life when the ground suddenly gave way.

poor guy, i can't imaging dying in a cesspool, that would be a shitty way to go
 
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Jeeebus

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ehhh... stink not found... "new" cesspool that he was building.
 

FoBoT

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ehhh... stink not found... "new" cesspool that he was building.

well that sucks, is it really a cesspool if it is new? wouldn't that just be a hole in the ground? a new hole with some future intended purpose? dumb news reporters :\
 

Jeeebus

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well that sucks, is it really a cesspool if it is new? wouldn't that just be a hole in the ground? a new hole with some future intended purpose? dumb news reporters :\

I didn't mean to be a party-pooper
 

KeithTalent

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Damn, thought this was going to be a Jay Sherman thread:

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FoBoT

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ALL the time?

last year
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695245278,00.html
Published: Friday, Jan. 18, 2008 12:23 p.m. MST
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A man apparently drowned after falling into an iced-over manure pit at a Cache County dairy, authorities said.
Sheriff's deputies said the 21-year-old Logan area man was rounding up some cows that got loose at a dairy near 200 West and 4000 South in Nibley around 9 a.m. Friday.

"He was walking around on this property," Cache County Sheriff's Lt. Matt Bilodeau told the Deseret Morning News. "Unbeknownst to him, they had a couple of natural manure pits. He walked out on the corner of one, not knowing what he was on top of. He broke through the ice and sunk into the manure pit."

Deputies said the pit is about 8-feet deep and is filled with cow manure, moisture, and ammonia from the urine, giving it a "soupy consistency."

"It is loose quicksand is what it is," Bilodeau said. "You can't swim in it. You're almost completely incapacitated in it."
 

FoBoT

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ok, here is a more horrific story from 2007, 5 members of a family died, although they didn't drown, they died from the poison gases associated with manure
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/07/03/national/main3011737.shtml
Gas From Manure Pit Kills 5 On Dairy Farm

Deadly methane gas emanating from a dairy farm's manure pit killed five people, including four members of a Mennonite family, authorities said.

Emergency workers speculate that after the first victim was overcome Monday, the others climbed into the pit in a frantic rescue attempt. "It was a domino effect with one person going in, the second person going after them," Rockingham County Sheriff Don Farley said.

"When these fumes hit you, it takes a matter of seconds, and it's my guesstimate that these people were dead before they actually hit the floor," Farley told CBS News.

Farley identified the victims as Scott Showalter, 34; his wife, Phyillis, 33; their daughters, Shayla, 11, and Christina, 9; and Amous Stoltzfus, 24, who worked at the Showalters' dairy farm in the Briery Branch community.

The accident began when Scott Showalter tried to transfer manure from one small pit to a larger one, measuring 20 feet by 20 feet and 8 feet deep.

The pipe that was transferring the manure became clogged, and Showalter climbed in the pit to fix the blockage, Farley said.

"This was an activity this farmer has probably done a hundred times," Farley said. "People have to go in and check their equipment," but for some reason, the fumes had not left the pit this time.

"This is the first time in my 25 years in law enforcement that we've had this happen in a manure pit, and then to have it happen to five people, just multiplies it that much more on the tragedy site of it," Farley said.

Emergency workers believe Stoltzfus climbed into the pit in an attempt to rescue Showalter. Phyillis Showalter and the two girls were outside the milking barn, heard the commotion, then all went into the pit and succumbed to the deadly gas.
 

The J

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All those rescue workers must have been really pooped out after that rescue.