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10:30 April 4th, 2007

Plunge into grunge…

Posted by: Robert Basler
Tags: Uncategorized

If you fell from a sixth-floor balcony you’d probably die, unless you landed on something like maybe a huge cushion, or a truckload of feathers, or, in the case of one woman, a seven-inch-thick pile of excrement.

I know, it sounds like something 10-year-old boys would make up, but according to a newspaper in China, the woman landed where workers had just emptied a septic tank which had been filling up for some time. The woman suffered only slight injuries, the newspaper said. Here is the story:

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Activists dump muck and manure at the European Patent Office’s entrance in Munich, in a 2000 file photo. REUTERS

5 comments so far

I don’t know which one is worse…the 6-story fall, or landing in the pile of poop. I would most likely die either way. The bleach bath and mouthwash afterwards would probably do it.

- Posted by K

That makes for a crappy day, doesn’t it?

- Posted by Lady Weasel

Everything happens for a reason… the pile of… was there for this reason!

- Posted by IonBuck

after years of complaining by citezens about smelly subway riders, the city finally came up with a solution..

- Posted by DJ

It’s an accidental recreation of the Second Defenestration of Prague!

- Posted by jqubed

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