Septic Tank Tales
Real life adventures of septic tank owners
CNN reported that police had stopped a septic-tank pumper truck in Arizona because it had invalid license plates. Upon further investigation, they found 743 pounds of marijuana in red and yellow packages, immeersed in the human waste in the truck.
The search of the truck was as awful as it sounds. "Yeah, that really does suck," Arizona Department of Public Safety spokesman Bart Graves told CNN. "It's a long way to go to make a bust."
The driver was arrested.
From a Wisconsin, USA resident:
We have an alert on our septic tank to *hopefully* prevent accidents
from happening. Unfortunately our septic tank was hit by lightening and we did
not realize it until it was too late. The lightening was from a summer storm and
it took out our furnace as well, but because it was summer, we were unaware that
we had even been hit! So one day, we awoke to this awful smell and found sewage
in our basement. Thankfully our basement was empty except for the yuck on the
floor.
The
Scottie News (http://scottishterrierdogs.blogspot.com) came across the
story of a man who gave mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a Scottie who
had fallen into a septic tank. Further research provided more details
about the incident, which occurred in 1998:
At the septic tank, "I saw bubbles, and I decided to investigate further. I was digging around there with a shovel. It came to the top, and then submerged again. . . I started digging around in the septic tank, up to my shoulders."
Finally he grabbed the dog by the legs and yanked him out. Scottie looked lifeless, so Mr Hatterer rinsed him under the spigot. "I grasped with my hand around his snout and blew into his snout. He blew up like a balloon, then I squeezed the air out of him, four or five times. Then he started coughing and puking up sewage." He drove the dog to the vet, and today the dog is fine.
We hope that Mark got a little something extra in his next paycheck for this heroic(?) act.
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