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Taking out the Trash...

2008 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance

Well I've heard a lot of stories about drunks tending to want to sleep their night of drinking in a number of areas. In the car, over at a friends place, and sometimes it seems, in your nearby local dumpster...and usually they wake up before the local garbage collection agency comes along and picks you up for that ride to the dump.

But in the case of Mr. William M. Bowen of Muncie, Indiana, He almost got himself a Darwin. So we can chalk this one up as a "Near Miss".

So how di this drunk end up in the city dump? Well from what Mr. Bowen says, he doesn't know.. Oe minute he's drinking with his pals in a local Muncie Bar, and the next? He's ending up in the back of a garbage truck that was about to "Compact" Their load of garbage.. Luckily for Mr. Bowen, he was found very much alive and very cold. As for his drinking Buddies? Well William Bowen won't say who they are.. But I bet if they dropped him in the dumpster, I'll bet he'll never drink with them again!

So Let's score this one:

Reproduction: Well If Mr. Bowen had not screamed, he wold have been crushed and removed from the Gene pool (Close but no Cigar).

Excellence: This one is iffy at best, but if Mr. Bowen has friends who lack judgement and let him sleep there, well then not really excellent but you gotta admit, he's drunk and in a dumpster. Do the Math.

Self Selection: Well if Mr. Bowen Climbed into the dumpster to sleep it off, then that would qualify, but if his friends dropped him there, they should get the nod.

Maturity: Well if he's old enough to drink (21) he falls well within the maturity limit..by about 5 years.

Veracity: MSNBC is the source so this one is verafiable.

All in all Mr. Bowen got the raw deal of sleeping in a garbage dumpster. Unluckily for Darwin, he missed this one by a whisker..

Submitted on 03/31/2008

Submitted by: Paul Bender
Reference: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23877014/ 2:55 a.m. MT, Mon., March. 31, 2008

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Bruce said:
Definitely Keep: Honorable Mention
I personally can't understand how one can get so drunk you could end up in a garbage truck and not even know how you got there. This guy sure is lucky he was discovered there. Thanks, Paul!


Chip said:
Definitely Keep: Honorable Mention
This is not the first story I have seen about a drunk in a garbage truck. I guess like attracts like. Thanks for the story, Paul


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