Posted on 03/22/2011 9:01:15 PM PDT by smokingfrog
UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. – Firefighters rescued a worker who was sucked into a sewer pipe Monday morning.
The man went into an 85-foot-deep shaft to do some work on the sewer line and went for a ride he'd much rather forget.
"You can imagine what's down there, everything that's in a sewer. Everything's is gooey, slimy, smells terrible," said Bob Atkinson with Pierce County Public Utilities.
The 37-year-old worker with Coluccio Construction was inside the sewer pipe inspecting it when, for some reason, he disconnected from his safety harness and then slipped into the sludge.
"He would tumble every now and then in the water. It's sewage water, it's kinds nasty but he would take hold of himself and say nope I've got to get upright and he would get right," said Ray Clouatre of Coluccio Construction.
The worker was washed about 3,500 feet, nearly three quarters of a mile downstream. He ended up trapped in a 4-foot sewer pipe with less than 18-inches of breathing room with 15,000 gallons of waste water per minute gushing around him.
Atkinson heard the man's cries for help.
"We've pulled a lot of stuff out of the end of the line but this is the first time we've had a live one come out," he said.
The worker was finally able to wedge himself at a bend in the line and after about half an hour in pitch black and raw sewage, Atkinson and rescue crews pulled him from the pipe. He was exhausted and had a split lip and broken tooth, but all-in-all a very lucky man.
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The Big Guy has other plans for this lucky, lucky dude.
Metaphor for our time?
Let me be the first to say: that just stinks........
And you thought you had a bad day...
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Which brings up the age old question:
“If you are up to your neck in snot and someone throws a bucket of $h-t at you, DO YOU DUCK”?
From here on out, every day he works will be a great day.
I hope he’s had all his shots.
“Hi honey, I’m home. Man, work really sucked today!”
Yah, some crappy luck.
Falling out of that safety harness was quite literally, an “oh, $#!+” moment.
Okay, I guess my day wasn’t so bad after all.
I work in the sewer,
It's a very hard job.
You know they don't hire
Just any old slob.
You don't have to wear
A tie or a coat.
You just have to know
How to float.
Chorus:
We sing the song of the sewer
Of the sewer we sing this song.
Together we stand
With shovel in hand
To keep things rollin’ along.
I work down the manhole
With a guy named Bruce.
And we are in charge
Of all the refuse.
He lets me go first
While he holds the lid.
I'm telling you, sheesh...
What a sweet kid.
Chorus:
We sing the song of the sewer
Of the sewer we sing this song.
Together we stand
With shovel in hand
To keep things rolling along.
Oo-oo Oo-oo Oo-oo-Oo-oo
A funny thing happened
To Bruce yesterday.
The tide came along
He got carried away.
He come out in Jersey.
But it's O.K. now.
Cause that's where
He lives anyhow.
Chorus:
We sing the song of the sewer
Of the sewer we sing this song.
Together we stand
With shovel in hand
To keep things rolling along.
My father he worked
In the sewer Uptown.
I followed his footsteps
And worked my way down.
That's how I began
In this here industry.
I just sort of fell into it.
Sheesh, lucky me.
Chorus:
We sing the song of the sewer
Of the sewer we sing this song.
Together we stand
With shovel in hand
To keep things rollin’ along.
And you thought you had a shitty day...
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