HUNTINGTON, N.Y. (AP) - A 71-year-old man who went outside in the rain to pick up the Sunday newspaper plunged into a cesspool in his front yard, and his son and neighbor were sucked in when they tried to help.
The victims escaped, two with the help of firefighters, covered in raw sewage but not badly hurt...
It's not the first time a cesspool - a pit that collects waste from toilets and sinks - has swallowed someone in Huntington.
In 2001, a man practicing archery in the backyard with his two children died when his cesspool caved in and consumed him. And in 1998, a Huntington Station man was rescued after he fell 65 feet into one.
Absolutely terrifying. And in
other falling into things news:
The 23-year-old man came home early Saturday morning and, finding himself locked out and without his keys, tried to enter the single-story house through its chimney.
"He told us he took off his clothes because as he was going down the chimney the clothes would rub up against it and slow him down," Branson said. "If it was skin on cement he felt he would go down easier."
Urbano's effort ended disastrously when a cable-television wire he used to lower himself snapped. He fell and was wedged in a section of the chimney tapering into the home's fireplace.
For the next four hours he cried out for help. A neighbour called police and fire fighters, who dislodged Urbano, Branson said. Officers booked Urbano for being under the influence of drugs, he added.
Please, take care of yourselves, and eachother.
2 comments:
Growing up, our street inexplicably was without a sewer system. Everyone on our large hill of a street had septic tanks and our house was at the very bottom of said hill. Needless to say at my 7th or so b-day party a friend of mine ignored my mother's screams and ran right into the large nasty sewage poo spot that sometimes formed in our front yard. The grass was always so tall and green there. In 6th grade we finally convinced the city to install as sewage line down our street and my social life was put back on its natural trajectory.
is this the same huntington, new york where forte grew up????
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