Someone call for a 65ft deep cesspool?
Posted on 04/24/2006 7:56:54 AM PDT by XR7
HUNTINGTON, N.Y. -- 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 rescue him.
Firefighters said they helped pull out the victims -- covered in raw sewage but not badly hurt.
Andrew Palladino said the soggy ground, which had been soaked by two days of rain, gave way outside his Long Island home.
"I walked across the lawn, and all of a sudden I disappeared," he told cable television station News 12 Long Island.
He yelled for his wife, Louise, to help him, and she threw a rope and called their son, Dan, who lives with them.
"Oh, my God," the wife said. "A little more, he's sinking. He's a goner!"
The son said the scene "was like a horror picture."
A neighbor who heard the commotion ran over to help -- but the ground gave way again, swallowing him and the son. The neighbor crawled out while passers-by tried to hold onto the others until the Huntington Fire Department showed up.
Firefighters secured the ground, lassoed Palladino and his son and dragged them out.
It's not the first time a cesspool -- a pit that collects waste from toilets and sinks -- has swallowed someone in the area.
In 2001, a Huntington 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.
"Im singin' in the rain, I'm singin' in the a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-h-h-h-h!"
He fell into the UN ?
That's a very, uh, crappy thing to have happen in the morning.
Moments like this you wish you had a video camera.
Aw, sh.t.
I wonder if this was a landfill a developer got real cheap
Crawled through a mountain of **** and came out smelling like a mountain of ****. But alive.
Somebody had a 65 foot deep cesspool?
Yesterday, there was a post about a guy in California who got sucked into a hole that formed in his living room. It killed him, but another person survived. Last report, the sink hole was increasing.
Watched FoxNews report of a guy who shot 12 nails from a nail gun into his skull -- and lived.
When your number is up, it's up. When it ain't, it ain't.
Time to sue the paper for missing the driveway or sidewalk.
First word that would come to mind is "S#it".
What's the difference between a cesspool and a septic tank? We're on a septic tank but I don't believe they're big enough to actually drown in should one cave-in.
But they're all fine, so its a funny story instead (in a "Ha-ha!" Nelson kinda way.)
What is the difference between a cesspool and a septic tank? Don't cesspools have a cover?
I must have missed the part about cesspools when I was watching "Modern Marvels: Plumbing".
Lmao
Better a cesspool than a "quagmire". :)
Lifeguards.
I just finished reading about that in the paper...it's suspected now that the home was built over a very old mine. Being as it was northern Cali (gold country), I'd say that's a good possibility.
Try septic tanks.
I was likewise amazed at some of the relatively minor stuff that killed people.
Must have been a liberal activist or a spokesman for CAIR- they're the only ones who would require that kind of volume.
LOL!
Someone call for a 65ft deep cesspool?
I'm having the same kind of day. Work much like a cesspool and I am skinking...........
Growing up on Long Island in the 50's and 60's we had cesspools, under the driveways, in our neighborhood.Many a morning someone's car would be "missing". I kid you not.
I wonder what the building codes are for that area? I think we were required to have a septic tank, fill lines etc and have them inspected in our county.
The dateline was NY but I thought the cesspool was in NJ
Was he a sinker or a floater?
He was going to take the paper to the crapper anyway.
Well, duh....that's what happens when you subscribe to The New York Times home delivery.
Something about a disappearance in the first person strikes me as odd. He would have to have gone invisible to have disappeared from his own sight.
s**t happens...
Sounds like some kind of horror flick. Man-Eating Cesspool Runs Amok!
That is odd. Perhaps the stench rotted his brain.
My TV is not this deep.
Cordially,
Our septic is an incredibly deep concrete cistern with a concrete lid. The lid is about 2 feet across, right in the middle of the top.
We had our septic pumped out a while back and I was curious and went out and peered into the hole. Very deep. I told the guy pumping it out that I thought it would be a great place to hide a body!
He said, and I'm not kidding, he said "You would not believe how many people have said that exact same thing to me! Everyone watches too much CSI."
I believe the only difference is that a septic tank has a wier inside it so that solids remain on one side, while liquids may seep over the wier into a second cavity, then are drained out into a leeching field. A cesspool, on the other hand is simply a pit or sealed box, requiring pumping to remove it's contents. The cesspool doesn't filter the contents nor favor septic biological activity.
"Man, Son, Neighbor Swallowed By Cesspool"
"He fell into the UN ?"
Dang, beat me to it.
No matter how my Monday is going, I no longer feel like I should complain...
Many here would say you live in a nanny state.
Try George Patton. After WWII was over he was riding in the back seat of a staff car talking to a colleague when a truck pulled in front of his car and his car collided with the truck at about 15 mph. He flew off the seat, struck just the wrong part of the vehicle, and broke his neck. Died from his injuries about two weeks later.
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