Man Gets Stuck In Denton Drainage System.

meangreendork · July 19, 2007

My girlfriend was driving home Tuesday afternoon only get behind a traffic jam in the middle of Denton, so I knew something odd was afoot.

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After fleeing vacant house, man finds he's in tight spot
10:10 PM CDT on Wednesday, July 18, 2007
By MONTY MILLER JR. / Denton Record-Chronicle
mwmiller@dentonrc.com
A man who spent more than nine hours in a drainage tunnel was in jail Wednesday and accused of evading arrest.
Pablo Hernandez was in police custody at the Denton City Jail after being released from a hospital. Bail had not been set.
A man was found in a vacant house in the 500 block of South Bell Avenue about 9:25 a.m. Tuesday when its owner and a police officer searched the outside.
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"An officer walked up to the front door and saw a man jump out a back window. He ran, and the officer chased him," said Officer Jim Bryan, a police spokesman.
The man ran several blocks, jumping fences, before running down a drainage channel and crawling into a pipe about 2 feet in diameter.
Police officers waited for the man to come out but eventually called a drainage expert.
The Fire Department was called to perform a rescue. The department pumped fresh air into the pipe as temperatures climbed into the 90s. Officials feared that the man might experience heat exhaustion or poisoning from hydrogen sulfide fumes from nearby sewage pipes.
City drainage workers dropped small robotic cameras underground to locate the man. At 6 p.m., the cameras spotted the man's feet.
Workers had to dig to get to the man. He was hospitalized overnight and released to police.

UNT_playmaker · July 19, 2007

This guy who got stuck had to be the luckiest man in Denton. 10 hours buried alive wow.....

This happened in front of two properties that I own in Denton

This was 803 and 805 S. Locust, the city caused alot of damage to those properties, I hope they do what they say, or tere will be legal ramifications. Four of my tenants had to shut down their businesses because of all of the chaos.... All four news stations had their helicopters dispatched to cover the incident

CorinthEagle · July 19, 2007

So this Bozo gives an interview to channel 5 and even though he says he did nothing wrong he's ready to spend time in jail. What? :blink: Maybe the fumes down there got to him afterall.