"She doesn't even want to drive by Sonic now," Clark said. "I'm just worried about the long-term effects now."

Fitness and health?

they should have crumbled some bacon on her

"but pulled her up when she raised her hands for help [after being engulfed in grease]"

Shenanigans.

She was going for their retirement greeeeease!

Grease pits smell like an outhouse at a construction site in the summer after the annual company chilli cook off.

Slow Bake Flake Shake?

It's Obama's fault.


/am I doin' it right?

Super size her.

Lone Stranger: Grease pits smell like an outhouse at a construction site in the summer after the annual company chilli cook off.

Great. Now I'm hungry and horny.

"Mouth-watering"?

Methinks subby has never been anywhere near a grease trap. The unholiest of unholy smells. The stink is a head-melting hybrid of rancid meat, puke, shiat, dog-breath and month-old roadkill.

It's rather distinctive. And doesn't smell like deep fried deliciousness. At all.

I'm surprised the kid wasn't begging to be shot instead of rescued. *shudder*

she is very lucky to be ok, I used to work with grease interceptors and falling in one seems like a really horrible fate.

who left the manhole open and unattended?

AlgaeRancher: she is very lucky to be ok, I used to work with grease interceptors and falling in one seems like a really horrible fate.

who left the manhole open and unattended?

Some five-year-old and her siblings.

sounds like she was battered.

If it smelled anything like the barrels of grease they leave on the loading dock at the country club I work at, that should be an alert enough to stay away, even to a 5 year old.
\ Oh well, it gets me to take less smoke breaks anyway

Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: So she fell in some grease and she's fine, so what? Oh, the parents see this as their lotto ticket. Of course.

Oh, no no. They just want to make sure this serves as a lesson. Their only concern here is safety. I'm confident that the lawyers they're consulting specialize in health and human services and the community will be a better place once all is said and done.

They found "grease doctors" in her ears? WTF?!

Call me when I can convert my diesel to five-year-old fuel.

MBZ321: If it smelled anything like the barrels of grease they leave on the loading dock at the country club I work

What country do you work in?

Lone Stranger: chilli cook off.

It's literally chilly where these take place, isn't it?

"Come down and have some good ol' fasherned Chilli with beans! We'll even warsh the beans first!"

Lucky it was the grease pit and not a fryer or the grease disposal unit being brought over to the pit.

As a teen working at BK, I once slipped into a fryer that had been off for about an hour - I was standing on boards on top of the covers while cleaning the hood and one got loose - luckily I was pulled out within seconds, but not before the sole of my shoe melted.

Ed i>Finnerty

AlgaeRancher: she is very lucky to be ok, I used to work with grease interceptors and falling in one seems like a really horrible fate.

who left the manhole open and unattended?

Some five-year-old and her siblings

In Hawaii grease interceptors in the ground outside are required to have traffic rated manhole covers. After RTFA sounds like somebody swapped them out with something light and easy to remove.

Somebody is going to get sued... and in this case probably deserve it.

What AlgaeRanger said.

I don't think its worth a multi-million dollar lawsuit, but that restaurant does need a good biatch-slapping for that setup.

Oh look, inattentive parents are blaming someone else for not doing their job in the pursuit of money, that's wholly new & original.

AlgaeRancher: Ed i>Finnerty

AlgaeRancher: she is very lucky to be ok, I used to work with grease interceptors and falling in one seems like a really horrible fate.

who left the manhole open and unattended?

Some five-year-old and her siblings

In Hawaii grease interceptors in the ground outside are required to have traffic rated manhole covers. After RTFA sounds like somebody swapped them out with something light and easy to remove.

Somebody is going to get sued... and in this case probably deserve it.

Deserve it? Horse hockey.

Pay for new clothes, hospital bill, and maybe a grand for their trouble and send them on their way.

Husband is at a town meeting atm, so I can't ask yet, but when he gets home I'll see what the policy is for Sonic, at least in our area. He works on the grease interceptors here, kinda interested to see if non traffic rated manhole covers is commonplace around here.

However, now I really want an old style float, and just put the kiddo to bed.

Veritas: "Mouth-watering"?

Methinks subby has never been anywhere near a grease trap. The unholiest of unholy smells. The stink is a head-melting hybrid of rancid meat, puke, shiat, dog-breath and month-old roadkill.

It's rather distinctive. And doesn't smell like deep fried deliciousness. At all.

I'm surprised the kid wasn't begging to be shot instead of rescued. *shudder*

This.

When I was a teenager I worked at Taco Bell, and every once in a while a truck would come by to empty the grease trap. You could smell it half a mile away. The thought of falling into one is awful beyond words. I imagine all the hot showers in the world wouldn't get that stink of your skin; you'd have to wait till the skin dies and is replaced before it's truly gone. And god help you if it got in your mouth or up your nose. Ugh.

It's awesome reading the parent's comments justifying their future lawsuit. They should be ashamed of themselves. They won't, but they should be.

My great-grandfather's brother died that way. Huge barrel of cooking oil/grease on the back porch. It was a family gathering, around 1908 I think, so they were cooking something or other in/over the barrel. The kids (including my great-grandfather and his brother) were in the back yard, running around. Up onto the porch, back down off the porch and around the back yard, back up onto the porch, back down, etc.. The brother runs up onto the porch, my great-grandfather in pursuit. The brother runs into the barrel, knocking it over, spilling the boiling grease/oil pretty much all over himself. It basically boiled/fried his skin off (something like the melting guy in Robocop). He died that night or the next morning. My great-grandfather never forgave himself.

Ummmm Yeah I think Sonic should sue the damned parents for letting the kid fall into Their Grease Trap....


\grumble grumble...parental responsibility....grumble...etc.

How do you even begin to clean that off of a child?

Galaxie500: How do you even begin to clean that off of a child?

a bottle of Dawn and a towel, like an oil spill pelican.

Something about this story just doesn't quite gel. The lid may have been off because it was cooling. If it had been at operating temperature she would have been fried beyond recognition.
No statement from the parents about their kids not behaving tho. Weird.

AbbeySomeone: Something about this story just doesn't quite gel. The lid may have been off because it was cooling. If it had been at operating temperature she would have been fried beyond recognition.
No statement from the parents about their kids not behaving tho. Weird.

Was the trap in the article the type to filter waste water of grease before it entered the sanitary sewer system, or one to dispose of (potentially hot) "used" grease?
I thought old, used fryer grease went into a dedicated, dumpster-like container.

AbbeySomeone: Something about this story just doesn't quite gel. The lid may have been off because it was cooling. If it had been at operating temperature she would have been fried beyond recognition.
No statement from the parents about their kids not behaving tho. Weird.

You are thinking the deep fryer, when they wash dishes, change the grease, etc, they dump the grease into a grease sink [at least this is how my husband explained it, he may have dumbed it down since I am not a plumber, or I wasn't paying attention] which diverts it to a grease interceptor and grease trap. The grease in this would be in a pit, in the ground, outside of the restaurant. It would have a normalized temp, due to being in the ground, w/e the earth would incubate it at, 64 degrees sounds right, too lazy to look it up.

Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: But what if there had been a child predator in that grease pit? Hmm? Or some kind of radioactive sludge? Obviously they deserve millions for each hypothetical scenario that didn't actually occur.

OK, so knock a few bucks off the payment for the extras. But only if they can prove a child predator or radioactive sludge was in the pit.

Clark and her husband are communicating with lawyers now, and Clark said she wanted this incident to serve as a learning experience.

Something tells me Clark views this "learning experience" as one which will benefit her financially.

Oh relax kids, I've got a gut feeling Uter's around here somewhere hahahahaha, after all isn't there a little Uter in all of us? hahahaha... hahaha, in fact, you might even say we just ate Uter, and he's in our stomachs... right now! AHAHAHAHAHAHA!... Wait, scratch that one.

jmadisonbiii: Something tells me Clark views this "learning experience" as one which will benefit her financially.

Maybe her five-year-old ought to learn not to fall into a big, reeking hole in the ground. Perhaps she's not the hottest french fry in the box.