Sounds like someone's gonna be getting a call from Christopher Lowell soon...

Hold on The San Fransisco Gate has a story on a man plunging into a manhole. Could someone tell me if this is safe for work.

Holy shiat, thats a long way down. I didn't know the sewers could be that deep.

sounds like something from the movies

Well, I had something smartassed to say.... but I was beat to it.

He fell in a sewer, in Edmonton. I'm surprised he could tell the difference.

Manholes, huh-uh huh

/IgotNothin

Remember, always make sure your man-hole is covered!

I like that they keep the 'eh for the quotes!

"And I could kind of hear him going down, down, down, eh? And I just freaked," Wilson said.

""And I could kind of hear him going down, down, down, eh? And I just freaked"

Best. Quote. Ever.

Leeds
Rigby-Reardon

C'mon guys, don't you know an ass from a hole in the ground?

Was his name Mario?

ObiWanSpicoli

I know when the word man is involved, I avoid either one.

I guess he was saved by his full diaper.

I think it was Mel Brooks who said:

"If a man falls down a manhole, that's comedy. If a man falls down a manhole and dies, that's tragedy."

He lived. So it's comedy. Laugh.

i'm guessing that being all sauced from the bar prolly helped his ass out of that situation as well.

There were reports that seven days before the incident, Puder watched a bad French art film. He said that last shing he saw was...

I'm surprised nobody has called him a hero yet, people usually do when this sort of thing happens.

DirkValentine

No doubt, the less reflexes the better.

BWAHAHAHAHA Its funny cuz it's not me!

he was fat, so he bounced around on the way down, slowed him down

I've edited the article for your further middle-school amusement :)

"Man survives 9-story plunge down manhole"

"I looked down and he was gone. And it sounded like he was really, really deep - I didn't know how deep he was,"

"He was pretty scared. He was in so much pain, and I couldn't do a thing about it,"

"He was saying, 'Get help,' and 'I can't hold on,' "

"And I was saying, 'Buddy, you can do it. Help is on the way.' "

"It was like being in a small, cold cave all the way down," Kocuper said. "It seemed like it was going down forever and ever and when I finally reached the bottom, he was alive. I was just shocked."

"He just kept telling me how he wanted to get out of that situation, how he had enough, how he wanted to leave," Kocuper said.

"He's a big boy, and that's what saved him. (The shaft) was a tight fit, so he kind of rattled all the way down. It injured him but it saved his life."

2003-06-25 05:09:33 PM the_american_president
I think it was Mel Brooks who said:

"If a man falls down a manhole, that's comedy. If a man falls down a manhole and dies, that's tragedy."

He lived. So it's comedy. Laugh.

O__o

"Tragedy is when I stub my toe. Comedy is when you fall into a manhole and die."

they said "Man Hole"

That would kill your buzz!

Lots of crazy things have been happening here in Edmonton lately. Kids were throwing potatos off the over-pass onto the freeway, some kid driving to his finals swirved off the road to avoid a car and ended up hitting some old guy, and then drove off. Crazy city.

Once I walked nine blocks to plunge something into a glory hole. But these stories aren't really related, are they ?

Wonder if he ran into any gerbils on the way down?

So... what if this guy turns out to be one of the fatso's suing McD and co.? Being fat saved his life!!!
/goes to make no-bake cookies

I fell in to a manhole in the field
I went down, down, down
And the walls went higher
And it's deep, deep, deep,
The hole in the field
The hole in the field

/with apologies to Johnny Cash

the very existance of a 9 story shaft sorta blows my mind.

Why is it there?

How big was the tunnel on the bottom?

crazy

What, was he crawling aorund on the back of Al Roker or something?

Thank you! Tip your waiters!

I'm with rrtt2 - what a major buzzkill.

On another note, this article makes me think of one of the hazing scenes from Old School...

has anyone noticed that the link goes to AZCentral...not SFGate?

/bored

That would suck so much I wouldn't even know where to begin.

Sounds so freaking scary.

I fell down a snow covered manhole whe I was a kid. Ten feet or so and my 'friends' goofed for about twenty minutes before droping the ladder. Too bad you didn't think of suing way back then or I'd have been set for life.

Let's hear it for stocky boys!

Two men are walking in a field and one falls into Gene Simmons, how many are left?

wasn't this an episode of the x-files?

The next thing I knew he was deep in my manhole..what I did not know was how deep.

It was a 200 pound manhole cover..I have never had my manhole pounded like that..

tommyymmot: lots of other shapes won't fall through, like triangles or stars and crap like that. they're round because any other shape would be stupid. and so you can roll them.