A man in south Nanaimo found himself in tight spot and had to be rescued by police and workers at a local transport company earlier this week.
Carl Savard and his co-workers arrived at their workplace on Tenth Street near Junction Avenue at at about 5:15 a.m. Monday, June 26, to hear someone calling for help. Savard said at first he thought the cries might have been coming from a nearby construction site.
91裸聊视频淏ut then my co-worker shows me this manhole and there91裸聊视频檚 somebody screaming out from the manhole, 91裸聊视频楬elp! Help!91裸聊视频�91裸聊视频� Savard said.
He grabbed his cellphone to record what was transpiring as he and his workmates went to see if the man, trapped in a manhole in the middle of the street, was all right.
91裸聊视频淲e made sure he91裸聊视频檚 OK. The guy seemed really thirsty. He said, 91裸聊视频楪ive me some water. I need to get out. Help me out,91裸聊视频�91裸聊视频� Savard said. 91裸聊视频淏ut those manhole covers are pretty heavy and we didn91裸聊视频檛 know who this guy was, so we said let91裸聊视频檚 just call the cops and wait for them to arrive.91裸聊视频�
Savard retrieved a pry bar and he and his two workmates and the RCMP officer were able to flip the heavy manhole cover open.
91裸聊视频淭hen they pulled the guy out and the guy wasn91裸聊视频檛 wearing any pants. He just had one shoe on and a [LED headlamp] around his neck,91裸聊视频� Savard said. 91裸聊视频淪o his first story was that some people put him in there and then it changed to his girlfriend pushed him in there and then it switched to it was already open and he fell in it.91裸聊视频�
Savard said the man was cold and dirty, but otherwise apparently unharmed from his ordeal.
Reserve Const. Gary O91裸聊视频橞rien, Nanaimo RCMP spokesperson, said once freed, the man had little interest in waiting for paramedics, who91裸聊视频檇 been called to the scene to check him over.
91裸聊视频淥ther than being very cold and very wet, he was relatively uninjured,91裸聊视频� O91裸聊视频橞rien said. 91裸聊视频淎fter being wrapped up in a blanket and after his teeth stopped chattering, he was able to say that somebody had pushed him inside 91裸聊视频� After being wrapped up in a warm blanket, he walked away to live another day.91裸聊视频�
O91裸聊视频橞rien said police were unable to find any security camera video footage from nearby businesses that might have explained how the man came to be in the storm sewer.
Savard said he and his co-workers theorized the man may have crawled for unknown reasons into a storm culvert that had recently been installed as part of the nearby construction work, gotten disoriented, and lost his pants and shoe in the process.
91裸聊视频淭hat91裸聊视频檚 what we91裸聊视频檙e thinking because the manhole cover was never lifted before. There was, like, sand and everything on there, so it would have been noticeable,91裸聊视频� Savard said.
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