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Talk About Getting Trashed

By Margaret Lyons in News on Mar 31, 2008 7:00PM

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Pretty Chicago garbage truck, presumably with no drunk people getting trash-compacted in the back, by SF Moe

William Bowen's friends have some serious explaining to do. Bowen recently came to in a garbage truck, full of garbage, in Muncie, Indiana.

The driver had just emptied a commercial trash bin into his truck and was about to activate its compactor when he heard Bowen screaming.

"He looked up and this gentleman was standing out the top of our truck," said Larry Green, market safety supervisor for the Rumpke waste disposal company. Green said the only thing Bowen said to the driver was that he was cold.

"This gentleman was extremely intoxicated," he said.

Yes. Yes, he was. [AP]