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Manhole kills man, Dove in for Cana

2008 Reader Submission
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Manhole kills man Dove in for Canadian Tire money Lauran Sabourin, CHCH News Published: Tuesday, February 26, 2008

A Welland man has died in a freak accident.

He fell down a sewer Tuesday morning, trying to retrieve money he accidentally dropped through the grate.

Paramedics frantically attempted CPR on the victim, a middle aged man more than 250 pounds who became trapped head first in a sewer outside the Kimono restaurant on Niagara Street. His head was in water about four feet down.

The rescue crew's only option was to pull him out using a tow truck. "They hooked him up, they put a safety harness on him, they got his feet out because he fell in head-first, we pulled him out nice and slow" Mike St Amand/pulled victim out

Ron Beauparlant saw the man bent over the manhole cover this morning, but he thought he was a member of a work crew:

"About half-hour, 45 minutes later, I see all these trucks and ambulances and I says, oh the guy obviously fell in."

The big question: why did the victim use a crowbar to wedge the cover off the manhole? The victim had accidently dropped some Canadian Tire money and some change down the sewer. He lifted up the manhole cover and bent down in an attempt to retreive it.

The victim was not conscious when they pulled him out. They worked on him in the back of the ambulance but it was futile.

The area is cordoned off while police continue their investigation

Submitted on 02/26/2008

Submitted by: Anonymous
Reference: Lauran Sabourin, CHCH News

Copyright © 2008 DarwinAwards.com

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Bruce said:
Maybe Toss: Too Common
This sounds virtually identical to a story we received a number of times last summer involving a man who tried to recover a cell phone from a sewer. It took 6 firefighters to pull that person out. When I first read this submission I thought it was a repeat of that other one, but it's not. Here is one of the submissions of that other incident: http://darwinawards.com/slush/200706/pending20070607-043347.html


Chip said:
Definitely Keep: Darwin Award
It may be close but two does not make common (in my opinion). I have just one question though... what exactly is Canadian Tire money? Is it different than the loonies and toonies I am used to seeing? Thanks for the story.


James said:
Definitely Keep: Darwin Award
I was all ready to toss this outright, but I thought I'd look up "Canadian Tire Money". As one might guess, it is in fact "voucher money" used to buy items from the Canadian Tire Company (if they're like any US tire outlet, they probably have all sorts of minor automotive doo-dads, eg car fresheners/fuzzy dice/&c, in addition to tires. In short, unless he had saved enough of these vouchers to buy a new set of high-walls, his actions are hardly justified, given the relatively minor value of the lost "money"! One may as well jump off the Staten Island Ferry to retrieve lost "Monopoly" money which has blown overboard! I will vote DA and let the readers decide if this fellow has the requisite stupidity!


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