Trash Compactor
2000 Honorable Mention
Confirmed True by Darwin
Confirmed True by Darwin
(8 May 2001, Canada) Yet another unfortunate man has learned that sleeping in a Dumpster is far less attractive than it sounds. A 36-year-old Saskatchewan resident was dumped from his aromatic nest into a compactor and taken to a landfill, where his soft moaning alerted workers to his plight. Police and firefighters rescued him from the pile of garbage, and he was taken to a hospital and treated for a fractured jaw, arm, and ribs. "I'm amazed he survived. They usually don't come out alive," said a spokesperson for Canada Waste Services. The compressor reduces loads to one-fifth their original size. "It's a four-meter drop onto a steel floor and then you are squeezed."
(14 April 2000, Utah) A man whose domestic tranquility had been marred by a quarrel with his wife decided to sleep in the relative peace of a garbage Dumpster behind a church. But his private slumber was interrupted on Wednesday morning when he was dumped into a garbage truck and caught in its hydraulic compactor. He was "collected" from behind the church at 6AM, and the truck proceeded on to gather more rubbish at a high school. The driver had just engaged the truck's compactor when he heard a frantic pounding on the walls of the truck bay. Fire Battalion Chief Brad Wardle commented, "Apparently, he and his wife had an argument. Who knows why he didn't just go to a hotel?"
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