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Oregon Woman Trapped in Septic Tank for Days
Newser ^ | 08/26/2019 | Rob Quinn

Posted on 08/26/2019 12:21:13 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd

She fell in while doing maintenance work

(Newser) – An Oregon woman almost died in an extremely unpleasant way after falling into a septic tank at her rural home, authorities say. Firefighters believe the Clackamas County woman was doing maintenance work when she fell into the tank, where she was trapped for up to three days, KPTV reports. "It looks like there was work being done on the septic tank," says Estacada Rural Fire District No. 69 division chief Richard Anderson. "There was a tractor in the area and a hole had been dug exposing the tank. And then she had fallen through about a 2-foot by 2-foot hole in kind of the rusted metal top of the tank." The woman, who lives alone, was found Tuesday afternoon when her daughter, who hadn't heard from her in a few days, drove up to check on her.

Anderson says the woman was found lying with her face just above the raw sewage. He says she was alert enough to grab the handle of a tool that was lowered down, KATU reports. "She was able to grab ahold of that, sit up slightly and they were able to get some other poles, a strap around her back and under her arms and then hoist her up out with that," the chief says. He says she had no visible injuries, but was taken by helicopter to a Portland hospital to be checked out for possible infections and the effects of having been in a space with limited oxygen for a long time. A neighbor says that according to relatives, the woman is expected to make a full recovery.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Local News
KEYWORDS: septictank
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And you thought you had a crappy day.
1 posted on 08/26/2019 12:21:13 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd

She was looking for an improvement over Downtown Portland.


2 posted on 08/26/2019 12:22:03 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (/S liberally (oops) applied to all posts.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

No Mitt!


3 posted on 08/26/2019 12:22:38 PM PDT by kiryandil (The Media & the DNC tells you who you're gonna vote for. We CHOSE Trump.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
There's a rule around here: When you post these sorts of stories, you're not allowed to steal the best pun in your comment!

That just stinks!

4 posted on 08/26/2019 12:26:02 PM PDT by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Don’t try to steal the title from Florida! Consider this a warning .


5 posted on 08/26/2019 12:26:43 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Talk about a sh..y experience.


6 posted on 08/26/2019 12:28:08 PM PDT by deport
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To: Responsibility2nd

So where did she go potty on those days?


7 posted on 08/26/2019 12:29:20 PM PDT by TomServo
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She stayed warm enough so where do you think?


8 posted on 08/26/2019 12:32:21 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: Responsibility2nd

It could be worse. My Scottish grandmother told me that,no matter how bad your day is, it could be worse.


9 posted on 08/26/2019 12:35:27 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cultsther)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Spent days in an actual s#ithole...


10 posted on 08/26/2019 12:36:10 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

She should be fine in San Francisco.


11 posted on 08/26/2019 12:38:00 PM PDT by moviefan8
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To: Responsibility2nd

Three days? In a septic tank? I was warned by the contractor who connected our house with city water that if I climbed down into the old cistern, even with the lid off, the lack of oxygen would kill me. Something about this story “doesn’t smell right”.


12 posted on 08/26/2019 12:38:21 PM PDT by katana
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To: katana; Red Badger
Something about this story “doesn’t smell right”.

Just what kind of DIY "maintenance" goes on in a septic tank? Was there a youtube video involved? Jeff Foxworthy how-tos?

Anderson says the woman was found lying with her face just above the raw sewage.

Ahhh, just another day on Facebook then..

That's what happens when this kind of stuff leaches out, the whole world gets wind. What can you do.

It would really add insult to injury if she had toilet paper stuck on her shoe. Ugh.

13 posted on 08/26/2019 12:51:49 PM PDT by Ezekiel (The pun is mightier than the s-word. Goy to the World!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

She was pissed off; the ticket said “Detroit.” Now she’s looking for a lawyer.


14 posted on 08/26/2019 12:52:14 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Responsibility2nd

Ever notice women never say there are not enough women septic tank pumpers or porta john cleaners and men have all those jobs?

Women want to pick and chose what jobs where they want equality which tells me right there feminism is a scam. They don’t want equality but favorability.


15 posted on 08/26/2019 12:52:30 PM PDT by setter
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To: Responsibility2nd

No . . . This is too easy . , ,


16 posted on 08/26/2019 12:53:25 PM PDT by laweeks
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Not even possible. Septics produce deadly methane. The tank had to have been empty.


17 posted on 08/26/2019 1:05:23 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (The denial of the authority of God is the central plank of the Progressive movement.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Gives a pretty good description of what it’s like to live in the leftist sewerhole of the east coast New York sh*tty.


18 posted on 08/26/2019 1:05:37 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary walks free, equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: Jonty30

“It could be worse. My Scottish grandmother told me that,no matter how bad your day is, it could be worse.”


Yes, it could have been someone else’s sh!t.


19 posted on 08/26/2019 1:08:19 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Right now in my head all I can hear is Fred Rogers singing
“You can never go down, can never go down, can never go down the drain....”

Well apparently you can.


20 posted on 08/26/2019 1:14:35 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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