A night in the paper waste container and a rude awakening

A homeless man had spent the night in a paper waste container on cardboard in Bielefeld on a cold February night.

A night in the paper waste container and a rude awakening
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21.11.2022

At seven o'clock in the morning the garbage collection came to empty it. When the homeless man fell into the garbage truck, he cried out. The garbage worker immediately activated the emergency stop switch on the garbage truck, probably saving the 41-year-old man's life.

Firefighters freed the homeless man from the compactor. He was taken to the hospital. Fortunately, only the man's foot was crushed.

The garbage worker suffered a shock, because only seconds later the compactor would have crushed the homeless man.