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By: John Roberts
(Scroll down for video) A teen was crushed to death after hiding inside a garbage container, according to emergency workers in France.
The French teenager who had been hiding inside the trash bin was crushed in a garbage truck in Luxembourg on Saturday, police said.
Garbage collectors discovered the 17-year-old boy when he yelled while they were emptying the container into the back of the truck early Saturday morning, but by then he was already caught up into his end.
“He screamed, but it was too late,” a police spokesperson in Luxembourg said on Monday.
The boy, whose name was not released, died at the scene, in the city of Luxembourg.
Police have opened an investigation.
“Parents need to educate their children to stay away from garbage containers, first of all because they stink and also because it is extremely dangerous, as this story has shown,” Amy Peterson, 21, a mother of a newborn girl in Paris, France told YourJewishNews.com, after reading about the incident.
This is not the first time a man got in trouble inside a garbage container.
Justin Gilpatrick, 27, from Portland Oregon, was drinking at a bar called “Club 205” early one morning.
When he was ready to leave he realized that he was too drunk to drive, so he made a smart decision not to drive home by himself.
Instead he decided to sleep in a dumpster filled with cardboard boxes until he sobered up, but he didn’t realize that it was the night the trash was to be picked up.
At 1:00 AM the Waste Management recycling truck arrived to empty the dumpster. Gilpatrick who was sleeping inside was dumped into the truck’s recycling compactor along with the cardboard boxes. The driver had no idea the drunken man was trapped in the back of his truck.
The driver compacted the load of recyclables twice with Gilpatrick inside. After a quarter of a mile, the driver stopped the truck when he heard Gilpatrick screaming, said Waste Management spokesperson Jackie Lang. Gilpatrick was bruised but he was not killed since the compactor was still relatively empty.
The driver was shaken up by the sight of a man lying in the back of his garbage truck. The driver took Gilpatrick out of the truck and called emergency services. Around 2:45 AM he was taken to the hospital with minor injuries.
Sgt. Pete Simpson of the Portland Police Bureau commended Gilpatrick for not driving drunk, “He knew he’s too drunk to drive so he decides not to drive, which is a great decision. But it was followed by a really bad decision, going to sleep in a dumpster that gets dumped into a truck,” Simpson said.
The Portland Police Bureau does not expect any charges to be filed in this incident.Mobile video not loading? Click here to view
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