Trash saves lives
07-Jan-2011, 01:04 PM
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Trash saves lives
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A would-be suicide jumper in New York was alive on Monday after leaping from a ninth-floor window but landing in a giant heap of garbage uncollected since the city's massive snowstorm a week ago.
Sanitation workers have not collected trash since the December 26 storm dumped more than a foot and a half of snow on the city. Mounds of garbage several feet high line many sidewalks.
Police said the trash bags below broke Kapatos' fall and that he left no suicide note before jumping.
The Department of Sanitation, which was only resuming garbage collecting on Monday, estimates 77,000 tons of trash have been left uncollected since the storm. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he expects workers to be caught up with trash collection by Friday.
Suicidal New York man leaps, but saved by garbage pile - Yahoo! News
Sanitation workers have not collected trash since the December 26 storm dumped more than a foot and a half of snow on the city. Mounds of garbage several feet high line many sidewalks.
Police said the trash bags below broke Kapatos' fall and that he left no suicide note before jumping.
The Department of Sanitation, which was only resuming garbage collecting on Monday, estimates 77,000 tons of trash have been left uncollected since the storm. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he expects workers to be caught up with trash collection by Friday.
Suicidal New York man leaps, but saved by garbage pile - Yahoo! News
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