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The incident occurred along Parthenia Street about 10:25 a.m. Saturday as the person underneath tried to get out... The driver of the truck continued west and did not stop, video released by police showed. The Los Angeles Fire Department responded to the scene and the victim, described only as a man in his 20s, died from his injuries... Authorities did not elaborate on what the man was doing under the manhole cover... “The public is reminded that manholes are used for city services to access various maintenance tunnels that are located underground,” police said in the news release. “Manhole covers...

This video was filmed by the Minnesota Dept of transportation on I-35 in Minneapolis. I guess it's two separate incidents that were filmed like 5 years apart at almost the exact same time. It begins like just any other normal wet rainy day, until all of a sudden the water bubbles up and begins to spew from a manhole in the middle of the Freeway. Then the water just begins to shoot about 15 to 30 feet into the air like Old Faithful does in Yellowstone. I'm really surprised that no one was killed. Especially the way the the...

How does a city lose 2,500 feet of tunnels under its streets? North Miami Beach would like to know. Over a four-year period, the city contracted with a construction company to build 254 manholes -- the tunnels that run down from street level to utility pipes 8 to 10 feet below.

An arrest warrant has been issued for a man convicted of stealing manhole covers from Ottawa streets after he failed to show up at court for his sentencing. Timothy Argiropoulos, 43, pleaded guilty in May to theft and mischief endangering life after being charged last July after 25 manhole covers that went missing from the Smyth Road and St. Laurent Boulevard area. Argiropoulos was also supposed to deal Friday with unrelated charges for dangerous driving and theft of copper wire. Argiropoulos has an extensive criminal record, which includes multiple convictions for theft and other property offences. .... The charges were...

It was an accident waiting to happen -- an open sewer and a 15-year-old girl who was texting while she walked. Alexa Longueira, a high school sophomore, was walking along Victory Boulevard near Travis Avenue on Staten Island Wednesday evening when she felt the earth move and was plunged into smelly darkness ...

SOUTH BEND — Two bodies were found Friday in a manhole not far from where two other men were discovered dead earlier this week. Police found the bodies of two men in the hole above a railroad viaduct east of the 600 block of South Scott Street — near Coveleski Stadium — about noon while investigating Tuesday’s homicides. The most recent deaths also appear to be homicides, South Bend police Capt. Phil Trent said. Autopsies will determine for certain the cause of death and who they are. The deaths appear to be connected in what could be a quadruple homicide,...

A WOMAN WHO was branded with part of Con Edison's logo after falling onto a burning hot Manhattan manhole cover is suing the utility. A lawsuit filed yesterday in Manhattan Supreme Court accuses Con Ed of allowing the manhole cover at E. 13th St. and Second Ave., to become excessively hot through a buildup of steam under it. Elizabeth Wallenberg, 27, suffered "excruciating pain, disability and grotesque cosmetic disfigurement," according to the suit, which seeks unspecified damages. The fall left Wallenberg with a "C" and "O" and part of the manhole grid burned onto her back, just above the buttocks,...

I am a walking time bomb. Like millions, I live deep deep deep in the digital storm, aswim in the electronic morass, irrevocable and irreversible and never to return to the ways of old because, as everyone knows, once you step foot into the rushing miasma of Net commerce and e-communication, you are imprinted onto the digital Void pretty much forever. The Net, it washes over your life in a tidal wave of logins and passwords and cookies and AutoFill forms and account summaries and credit card numbers and semisecure Web sites, each promising on a stack of ridiculously defective...

Photo: Jason Scott/CP Jason Melien holds his head Tuesday after his friend Jeff Pruder fell into an uncovered manhole. Edmonton — They were walking together, as they had so many times before, taking a late-night short cut across a grassy field to get home from a sports bar. Then one of two men suddenly vanished. "I was walking right beside him and we were talking, and then the next thing I know he's gone," said Ryan Wilson. Mr. Wilson's friend, Jeff Puder, 25, fell down a 32-metre deep shaft — the height of a 10-storey building — in the...