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Seven die in septic tank rescue
dailytelegraph.com.au — Six men died one after another as they descended into a rural septic tank in a failed attempt to rescue a 17-year-old who had entered the tank to fix a drainage problem.
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- socialpyramid, on 10/10/2007, -6/+33Reminds me of the time 6 people died trying to save a chicken from a well in Egypt: http://www.toucansolutions.com/pat/wob/waste.html. Sad.
- imkrazy182, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6http://www.toucansolutions.com/pat/wob/waste.html
- SuperWinner, on 10/10/2007, -32/+5We may be better off without these people...
- ZenMojo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+22The ones trying to save a 17 year old from a ***** hole?
- qwertydvorak, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1they flushed their lives down the crapper...
- Akaji, on 10/10/2007, -5/+3Too soon.
- VanillaStarfish, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0But next week... We may be better off without these people.
- BossKey, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2But it also happened to some white people in the Midwest a few months ago. Good people, intelligent people.
The fumes are invisible, and well contained in that pit. People die because they go down without realizing the conditions, and by the time they realize there is no actual air in the space they just descended into, it's too late.
It would happen to you too. - WaltDismal, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2It's evolution at work. The descendents of these people wouldn't have realized it's bad to crawl into a septic tank without Scuba gear. But now, the descendants do, and the human race is smarter. Er, wait. Let me think that over.
- ZenMojo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+22The ones trying to save a 17 year old from a ***** hole?
- Ajajadude, on 10/10/2007, -3/+7Kinda reminds me of a scene in "Mom and Dad Save the World" with the Light Grenade...and I'm probably the only one here who knows what I'm talking about.
- Roger, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I remember that scene too.
- MozzieTS, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1we are going to need backup
- Roger, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I remember that scene too.
- pawntheking, on 10/10/2007, -4/+0Why isn't the digg/news page working?
- maiku00, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12thats a pretty '*****' way to die
- UPSLynx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3This just happened in America about 2 months ago. I work at a local television station, and mid-day we shoot a show called Agday. They reported that a small Amish family lost 5 members to a similar incident. A young son, while digging, succumbed to methane fumes. His father then went in to save him, and died himself. The older son, and two farm hands followed before the mother called the police. Methane is a serious gas, and situations like these occur normaly when at times of crisis, people just don't think straight. It's really sad.
- crash331, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Hey Egyptians, that's what happens when you break OSHA regulations.
- mjpatey, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Rikki Tikki Tembo No Sa Rembo Chari Bari Ruchi Pip Peri Pembo has fallen into the well!
- AriaStar, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I thought I was the only one who remembered this long-ass name from that stupid book all third-graders had to read!
- AriaStar, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Ouch! The chicken lived!
- uziq, on 10/10/2007, -4/+74That's possibly the worst way to die. :(
- bratterscain, on 10/10/2007, -3/+12They're in deep *****. But let's not forget about the coroner's ***** job.
- Ajajadude, on 10/10/2007, -3/+4What about that dude that died while tending to the rear end of an elephant with a stomach bug?
- Firehed, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I'm pretty sure that's just an urban legend. But I'm too lazy to check Snopes, so feel free to prove me wrong.
- treas, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Claim: A zookeeper in Paderborn, Germany, was killed when an elephant defecated on him.
Status: False.
- NikoKun, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Worst way to die ever!
No seriously... I simply cannot think of a worse way to die, than suffocating in human excrement...- GorfTron, on 10/10/2007, -4/+3I can't think of a more romantic date.
- halogenic, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Probably not that bad, you'd just pass out from the fumes and never wake up.
- deezp1, on 10/10/2007, -9/+155Well, thats *****
- ZiggityZhang, on 10/10/2007, -10/+4It would stink to be attending that funeral.
- tehpwnrate, on 10/10/2007, -10/+6Piss-poor way to die. This whole situation just stinks.
- gcnaddict, on 10/10/2007, -4/+1^^You two both broke the only thing making the deaths less depressing.
- shadus, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7When I read the story the first thing came to my mind was "wow, that's *****." Then I giggled and decided to look at the comments to see how many down that comment would be :P 3-- i'm impressed :)
- Exvin, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2No *****...
- Whiteknight117, on 10/10/2007, -19/+3I got the poo on me!
- theshizzler, on 10/10/2007, -13/+35Insert excrement pun here.
- kevma, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8I would, but it's a sensitive topic and I'm afraid I'd get into deep *****.
Puns aside, I'm truly sorry for these men, although the way they died isn't great - they died in an attempt to save another human, and that's very noble.
- kevma, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8I would, but it's a sensitive topic and I'm afraid I'd get into deep *****.
- SuperWinner, on 10/10/2007, -6/+42How bout when dozens die every year at the kite festival, and then the next year dozens more die!! How do you get killed at a KITE FESTIVAL??? http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0 ...
- Torpov, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16Well that article summed it up: victory shooting, horrible rivalry, electrocution and falling off roofs. From what I've read of the Pakistan kite festival, they take it seriously and it was banned for a while.
- Akaji, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9Don't forget loading your string up with glass to try to cut each others' strings. Obviously, it can cause some complications when you're hit with glass-laden string moving at 10-15 miles an hour, being held taught by a kite....
- wing05, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13Calling it a "kite festival" is loosely putting it.
Kinda like taking the old Robot Wars tv show, putting the audience ring side and take away any sort of safety barrier between the audience and the flying saw blades, swiging anvile and whatnot, and then calling it a "robot festival".
IIRC, kites in that festival have glass shards glued to the lines and sharpened tips and edges along the kites to try and take down other kite flyers. - Myonosken, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The Pakistan kite festival has been confined to just those days because they have contests with razor blade covered kites.
- MiDri, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2That sounds so bad ass it's not even funny...
- Torpov, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16Well that article summed it up: victory shooting, horrible rivalry, electrocution and falling off roofs. From what I've read of the Pakistan kite festival, they take it seriously and it was banned for a while.
- tdrizzle, on 10/10/2007, -21/+9What a ***** way to die.
- Osuperman, on 10/10/2007, -19/+12Did anyone else read the article in a South Park voice?
- bratterscain, on 10/10/2007, -7/+8No. Does your mother allow you to be up this late?
- zekt, on 10/10/2007, -3/+13No, I found a midget in a bikini and got him to read it.
- capiCrimm, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2ah, so you were the owner. While reading the article I ate your midget in a bikini... perhaps I could give you my unicycle riding bear as repayment? It has a propeller hat.
- Checkerd, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8I always read things in a Moran Freeman voice, makes everything more interesting.
- duddles, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Andy crawled to freedom through five hundred yards of *****-smelling foulness I can't even imagine. Or maybe I just don't want to. Five hundred yards. That's the length of five football fields, just shy of half a mile.
- capiCrimm, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5I used google to translative to German and read mine in a Rammstein voice. I have no clue what the article was about, but it sounded scary as *****, and I'm pretty sure there were flamethrowers involved.
- avatar28, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1LOL. Okay, I hate to laugh at the situation but that was just too funny (especially having just read duddles quote in a Morgan Freeman voice).
- delightfuldemon, on 10/10/2007, -7/+32I almost feel bad for laughing at this.
- aussieNickuss, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2Same.
- ZenMojo, on 10/10/2007, -5/+1Don't worry, I'll feel bad for the both of us.
- Protonz, on 10/10/2007, -7/+4They are foreign, so probably terrorists. No need to feel guilty.
Giuliani '08! - bromanct, on 10/10/2007, -4/+1but you don't because you're an *****
- mzkply, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I like the "almost"
- davidwasman, on 10/10/2007, -2/+26"it was not immediately clear if the men died from exposure to noxious gases in the tank or drowned "
Ok, that's now top on my list of ways NOT to die...drowning in sh*t.- halogenic, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Imagine that first mouthful, you'd want to die after that :)
- solodude59, on 10/10/2007, -3/+37SEVEN people?! come on, guys. after two, maybe three people, i would have just called an ambulance... also a plumber. yeah, calling the plumbers a good idea.
- jftitan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6But the Mario Brothers already told them they wouldn't do it.
- bib4tuna, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1if/when we go to war with egypt... its going to be over faaaaaaaaaaaaast
- datastorageguy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3That's what happens when you hire lemmings to do your septic work.
- MagicCake, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Ugh, they probably had to die with repetitive MIDI music too, then... Poor guys.
- crapmatic, on 10/10/2007, -2/+51I have to say, if I ever die in a pit of toxic sludge, my spirit won't rest until people halfway around the world digg my death.
- Midvicious, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Hahaha, Dugg for..... .. .... .... wait.... .. ... ... Holy *****!
- cnycompguy, on 10/10/2007, -7/+25dar win
- NeedleGuy, on 10/10/2007, -9/+10But they all died after exposure to noxious gases in the tank, a health official said.
They said it was not immediately clear if the men died from exposure to noxious gases in the tank or drowned after possibly losing consciousness.
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that's some good reporting, i tells you.- ozroy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5They were exposed to noxious gases, then they died, ie "they all died after exposure". At this stage they do not know if the noxious gases poisoned them, or they lost consciousness and then drowned ie "not immediately clear if the men died from exposure to noxious gases in the tank or drowned after possibly losing consciousness".
that's some good english, i tells you.
- ozroy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5They were exposed to noxious gases, then they died, ie "they all died after exposure". At this stage they do not know if the noxious gases poisoned them, or they lost consciousness and then drowned ie "not immediately clear if the men died from exposure to noxious gases in the tank or drowned after possibly losing consciousness".
- realgoat21, on 10/10/2007, -5/+16Am I the only one who finds this really tragic?...especially how they kept on going down in succession, even though they probably knew what was happening by that point.
- tarzidil, on 10/10/2007, -0/+72 victims is tragic, hell 7 victims at once is tragic... 7 victims in succession is kinda tragic but it is also thinning the herd. What, in the name of all that is holy, were the last four would-be rescuers thinking as they descended into that dark, corpse filled hole? This time it'll be different? Allow the dumb ones to go first so that there is someone with a brain cell in their skull to go get more help if the initial efforts end in disaster.
- duddles, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3It reminds me of the SNL sketch where everyone keeps jumping into the lion's cage one by one - each time getting splattered by blood.
- AriaStar, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I know what you mean. Each time another person didn't come out, the next had to have known the chances were slim, but took the chance to try to save the others.
- JimAtKSF, on 10/10/2007, -11/+1That story is craptacular!
- Munkey106, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2...and your comment is crap.
- digsuxx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0I watch Conan too :)
- definitive, on 10/10/2007, -6/+10Thats some crazy *****
- holybjork, on 10/10/2007, -6/+10kill one man... shame on the septic tank...
kill two men... shame on the men...
and yet... they still keep going?- zeromancer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1the first time someone calls you a horse, you punch them on the nose.
the second time someone calls you a horse, you call them a jerk.
the third time someone calls you a horse, well, maybe it's time to start shopping for a saddle.
- zeromancer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1the first time someone calls you a horse, you punch them on the nose.
- Celeron, on 10/10/2007, -8/+3Drowning in crap. Now that's a fantastic way to die!
- Kallius, on 10/10/2007, -4/+4We used to have safety training videos at work on confined space entry and what to do (and not to do) when attempting to rescue someone from a confined space. The worst thing that can happen is the would-be rescuer dying during the course of attempting to save another's life. Rule #1 - always use breathing apparatus. Rule #2 - always have at least one extra person outside the space in addition to the rescuer.
- Johnagain, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3The Egyptians from the village of Rifa had not seen the OSHA training videos, apparently.
How sad... - Johnagain, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0The Egyptians from the village of Rifa had not seen the OSHA training videos, apparently.
How sad... - mcduckov, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You'd think maybe they would have tied a rope around the first one that went in for the rescue...or the second, or the third...fourth? Fifth? Sixth? I mean, WTF?
- Johnagain, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3The Egyptians from the village of Rifa had not seen the OSHA training videos, apparently.
- uncommonsmoke, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8"They couldn't bear the fumes and they suffocated and died,"
Having to live and work with one of the smelliest roommates alive, I can feel their pain. - h4mx0r, on 10/10/2007, -5/+3Drowning in liquid *****. This has to suck.
- turbonium, on 10/10/2007, -11/+1that is a ***** way to die
- psygnisfive, on 10/10/2007, -8/+2Imagine if they had managed to safe the kid after he aspirated feces sludge water. I'd want to kill myself knowing that I had ***** slime in my lungs.
- FBombAndy, on 10/10/2007, -4/+11It's in my raccoon wounds!
- meachen, on 10/10/2007, -5/+4suicide *****
- Zabbawack, on 10/10/2007, -8/+3This head line should read: ONE DIES IN TRAGIC SEPTIC TANK ACCIDENT...but I guess some one(7) has to be a Hero
- jimmat, on 10/10/2007, -7/+6The last six guys all deserve a Darwin award.
- TippyTom, on 10/10/2007, -4/+17I nominate that whole family for a Darwin award
- audguy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I second that!
- Conquerist, on 10/10/2007, -7/+2pj33r t3h SEPT1C T4NK !!1122
For those who do not understand the reference, this is the slogan of the HD movie release group SEPTiC.- mulvipolo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5buried for explaining your own reference.
- VEGETAble, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13Who the hell would try to fix their own septic tank?
- venom8599, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2People in Egypt, apparently.
- devilbody, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic ...
This sort of thing happened not to long ago in the states.- devilbody, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic ...
My link got truncated for some reason after an edit I made.
- devilbody, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic ...
- dorkino, on 10/10/2007, -7/+2All I have to say is...
LOL - harlowsmonkeys, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9To be pedantic, only six died in the septic tank resuce effort. One was the person they were trying to rescue.
- londubh, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7After the second one doesn't come out you don't send any more in. Oh, and tie a rope to the first rescuer so you can pull him back out.
- noamchomskeet, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Poor kid was just doing what his mom told him, that's gotta make her feel bad for life.
- spartacus51, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1*****.way.to.die.EVER.
On another note, how many comments will be made to this story before every variation of this joke is used up? - Useight, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Well that stinks.
- joemofo214, on 10/10/2007, -3/+3***** way to die
- Coy0te, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2holy crap thats horrible
- sturat, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2Floaters...
- xombi242, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2***** deal
- itomixdotcom, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Almost this exact same thing happened in Menominee, Michigan about 10 years ago on the farm of a family named Theurkauf. They were all related and very close, so each one lost his head when they saw his relatives dying. Who could say that they'd be able to keep their senses about them to avoid jumping after them?
- ZeRux, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Pics or it didn't happen!!!111
- bluebirdgm, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1There was a similar death on a U.S. naval ship seven years ago; my friend was serving on the ship at the time: http://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0009C&L=SAFET ...
- sturat, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2Now, where are those little ***** hiding?
- duddles, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1That septic tank must have been really dangerous... for me to poop on!
- AuburnTigers, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1"Gumaa's mother, Zeinab Mohamed Ali, said she had sent her son into the tank"
What a bitch! I hope she feels guilty! - reduxien, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Why the ***** are you guys laughing and making jokes? Grow the ***** up. You should be ashamed of yourselves.
- Scott333, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0Pick me up
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