Man Dead in Cesspool Accident

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Man Dead in Cesspool Accident

HUNTINGTON, N.Y. (AP) - A man who had been practicing
archery in the back yard with his two children died
when his cesspool caved in and swallowed him, police
said.

Michael Lobasso, 35, a U.S. Drug Enforcement
Administration agent, was standing on the ground above
the cesspool when it gave way at about 12:40 p.m.
Monday, Suffolk County police said.

Searchers located his body a few hours later, but
worked throughout the night to remove it because the
walls of the 18-foot-deep cesspool were crumbling on
top of the quicksand-like pool, police said.

The body was recovered at about 6:30 a.m. Tuesday,
Detective Sgt. Arthur Ahl said.

``The more they dug, the worse the body actually got
stuck,'' he said.

When rescue crews arrived, they found a 3-foot-wide
hole that grew to about 15 feet across as they
searched, Huntington Manor Fire Chief Charles Hoffman
said.

Fire officials told Newsday they didn't see any
construction or digging that could have caused the
cesspool to cave in.

[sullen]

Yeah, I live about 45 minutes away from Huntington. The big thing now is everyone in the town calling up plumbers and septic companies wanting their cesspools checked so they won't fall in. It is a boon for them because Huntington it is an "upscale" town.

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In case any of you don't believe me, it's real and it's in Long Island Newsday:
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-cesspoolup904.story?coll=ny%2Dtop%2Dheadlines

And the article give the address and it's maybe 4 blocks from my Uncle's house (just checked out MapQuest).

[zzyzzx]

The actual Newsday article is much better than the version I posted above. It includes this gem:

The rescue was dangerous work, Hoffmann said. "If you don't get hit by debris, the methane gas will get you." Methane that builds up in a cesspool is toxic and flammable.

[mh2360]

i doubt his two childen would find this funny!

[zzyzzx]

I think it's hilarious. Anyhting having to do with feces or methane gas (fart gas) is very funny.

[sullen]

I completely understand what you mean mh2360. It really isn't funny when you actually think that someone fell into a pit and could not escape and died like he had fallen into quicksand. When you read the man's name, the fact that he was a DEA agent for Manhattan NY, that he leaves behind a wife and two kids it is really sad. The thing is everyone is so far removed, just to hear a story of some guy dying when he fell into a vat of feces is childishly funny for the first reaction and then you realize the horror of it.

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Yeah, I live about 45 minutes away from Huntington. The big thing now is everyone in the town calling up plumbers and septic companies wanting their cesspools checked so they won't fall in. It is a boon for them because Huntington it is an "upscale" town.
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Seems to me that the people of Huntington Station (of which I am a former resident of) are fine outstanding citizens:

http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/longisland/ny-dccc2363665sep13.story

Driver Arrested in Hate Crime at Mall
September 13, 2001

A Huntington Station man who screamed that he was "doing this for my country" was arrested last night after trying to run down a Pakistani woman with his car, Suffolk police said.

The incident, one of several on Long Island that authorities and victims attributed to a backlash of hatred generated by Tuesday's terrorist attacks, occurred at Walt Whitman Mall in South Huntington.

Police said Adam Lang, 76, of Huntington Station, was outside the mall revving his engine for several minutes. Then, as the woman stood on a sidewalk awaiting a ride home, he put the car in drive and headed directly at her.

"If she hadn't jumped out of the way," said Det. Sgt. Robert Reecks, commander of Suffolk's Bias Crimes Bureau, "he would have run right over her."

Lang jumped out of the car, Reecks said, and screamed that he was "doing this for his country" and was "going to kill her."

Lang, of 25 Sixth Ave., was charged with first-degree reckless endangerment, a hate crime. He was being held pending arraignment today.

The woman, who was not identified, ran inside the mall to safety. Reecks said Lang also was charged with driving while intoxicated.

The alleged attack came as other Long Island residents voiced fears of irrational retribution.

Saira Ahmed, an American of Pakistani descent, said she has been afraid to leave her Syosset home since Tuesday's attack.

"I wear the traditional scarf, and I'm absolutely afraid to leave the house because I don't know how people will show their emotions toward me," said Ahmed, 20. "We're just as outraged as other New Yorkers and Americans are."

Nassau and Suffolk police reported several incidents of violence directed toward Middle Easterners, or those perceived to be Muslim. The Mahmanawaz Grocery on Smithtown Boulevard in Nesconset was the target of an apparent arson early yesterday morning, police said. "If the same community that welcomed me can turn around and look at me like that, then I have to put all my dreams and the way I used to think back in perspective," said owner Kamal Kahn, who emigrated from Pakistan 13 years ago. "I'm still a foreigner."

Brian Harris, 29, of Selden, was arrested in Suffolk yesterday for menacing as a hate crime after he waved a pellet gun and shouted ethnic slurs at an attendant at a Citgo gas station in Ronkonkoma.

Anti-Arab sentiments swelled so quickly that in many instances it didn't matter who the victim was. Amrik Singh, a Sikh who wears a turban, said four men chased him Tuesday as he fled lower Manhattan to return home to Hicksville.

Nassau and Suffolk police said they were monitoring mosques in both counties. "We're hoping not to have any further incidents," said Suffolk Police Chief Philip Robilotto, "but we want to be ready in case we do."

Copyright © 2001, Newsday, Inc.

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[d4n13l]

Up shit creek without a paddle.

[sullen]

It is funny that you used that expression. Explain something to me. If you were up any creek, including the afore mentioned one, you really wouldn't need a paddle since you are up the creek and would float back to your original spot eventually. Shouldn't the saying really be DOWN the creek without a paddle? Think about it....

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It is funny that you used that expression. Explain something to me. If you were up any creek, including the afore mentioned one, you really wouldn't need a paddle since you are up the creek and would float back to your original spot eventually. Shouldn't the saying really be DOWN the creek without a paddle? Think about it....
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(you sound 'suspiciously' like a student) On the contrary:
What if i wanted to go up the creek though?
You know, like if i were in that film - Whats it called? The one with the hillbillies chasing the city folk in canoes... then the bumming scene - Squeeeeel piggy. Burt reynolds... ...erm... er... Deliverence! Thats the one! What if I wnated to go up the afore mentioned creek as in order to evade the attentions of pig-o-philes? I would then, indeed, "be up shit creek without a paddle" (If I had indeed lost my paddle). The alternative being a
pig-o-phile "up (my)shit creek without a sheath". Scary stuff.

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Faeces... me? No, never!

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[d4n13l]

LOL

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