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by ibgames

EARTHDATE: October 28, 2012

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REAL LIFE NEWS: LOST LAPTOP LEADS TO CRUSHING EXPERIENCE

by Hazed

Here’s a warning: if you lose something valuable in a dumpster, then climb in to try to find it, make sure the garbage truck isn’t due!

Words a man from Perth in Australia would have done well to heed. He was rummaging around inside a skip bin (that’s apparently what Australians call a dumpster) looking for his laptap, when the bin was seized by a garbage truck and the contents tipped into its gaping maw.

The unnamed man immediately started to scream as loudly as he could, and luckily the driver of the truck heard him and stopped the mechanism before he could be crushed to death by the hydraulic ram. Emergency services were called and were able to free him after about 20 minutes.

Sadly, all this trauma did not lead to the man finding his laptop. He also didn’t explain how it ended up in the dumpster in the first place. One wonders if alcohol might have been involved...

Source: http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/screams-save-man-from-rubbish-truck-20121023-282bo.html

Bonus link: Man gets head stuck in bin: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-19783214

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