Man Rescued from Latrine

Posted by Miss Cellania in Odd News on March 8, 2009 at 7:34 am


An unidentified man was rescued from a waste tank under a rest stop bathroom on Highway 30 near Filer, Idaho on Thursday. He had climbed into the tank to look for his keys. Another driver found him and called emergency services. Police, firefighters, paramedics, and other emergency response personnel responded, and found the man up to his neck in sewage. They summoned highway maintenance department workers, who retrieved the man by opening an access port used to remove waste. Pictured is Filer Police Chief Cliff Johnson, who told the story to local news.

“It took some lifting to get him out, and he had cut himself pretty good trying to get himself out,” Johnson said.

The man was allowed to wash off with the fire truck hose at the scene, where he made another painful discovery.

“That’s when he discovered the keys were still in his back pocket,” Johnson said.

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(image credit: Ashley Smith/Times News)


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10 comments to "Man Rescued from Latrine"

  1. Bret Hammond
    March 8th, 2009 at 7:49 am

    Hmmm...sounds way too much like this: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0706053sewage1.html

  2. gtron
    March 8th, 2009 at 8:10 am

    cut himself - septicemia alert

  3. Christophe
    March 8th, 2009 at 10:04 am

    arpil's fool!
    uh, no? it's real?!!! How about a magnet before the dive...

  4. meg
    March 8th, 2009 at 12:28 pm

    yikes, I hope he was put onto some precautionary antibiotics if he cut himself while in there...normally I'm totally against antibiotics without a proven bacterial infection, but the stuff he could get from that tank could kill him pretty quick. Yech.

  5. Johnny Cat
    March 8th, 2009 at 12:40 pm

    much a-poo about nothing.

  6. Caroline
    March 8th, 2009 at 2:14 pm

    I agree with Bret; guy is full of it...

  7. gtstiggy
    March 8th, 2009 at 3:11 pm

    That must've been a crappy day

  8. Emmy
    March 9th, 2009 at 2:26 am

    if he's diving headfirst into raw sewage (dear god, i shudder at the thought) to find keys he couldn't even bother to look for on his person FIRST- then maybe he deserves the potential blood poisoning. just sayin'.
    if my keys fell in ye ol' thunder bucket, i'd consider them lost and call AAA.

  9. Dog Droppings
    March 9th, 2009 at 5:23 am

    "much a-poo about nothing."

    No Sh#t!

  10. Gail Pink
    March 9th, 2009 at 11:45 am

    How Slumdog Millionare-esque!


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