Boy hiding in duffel bag dumped into garbage truck

[Champ]

KENOSHA, Wis. - A 4-year-old boy who hid inside a duffel bag that was placed out with the family trash was nearly crushed in a garbage truck's compactor before a sanitation worker heard him scream.

Jacob Deates had climbed inside the duffel bag just as the garbage truck came by Monday morning. All the items were tossed into the truck, including the bag with the boy, said his mother, Jennifer Deates.

Trash collector Inis Ramadani said he was starting the compactor, and "as soon as the hopper started to run like this, I hear a scream." He stopped the compactor and then saw the boy, who was reaching out from the bag.

"I grabbed the boy and gently put him out and he ran to his house," said Ramadani, the father of a 3-year-old girl and two older boys. "It was a very frightening moment for me."

http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/0712boy-trash12-ON.html

[Liberal Veteran]

1. It wasn't a duffel bag! It was a seed pod!

They're after all of us. Our wives, our children, everyone. They're here already. YOU'RE NEXT!

[girl gone mad]

2. That's one lucky kid.

He must have a good set of lungs to be heard over the noisy compactor. I bet he won't be hiding in duffel bags anymore.