Lucky escape for man asleep in bin

| By Sean Moriarty

A man who was sleeping rough in Killarney overnight had a lucky escape after the bin he was in was tipped into a refuse truck.

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During its early morning rounds on Tuesday, a bin lorry and its crew picked up a number of large rubbish bins on Main St. The bins were tipped in to the compactor section of the truck. By the time the crew arrived at the top of New Street a crew member spotted a person's head in the compactor section and raised the alarm. The man who slept in the bin overnight was found in the middle of all the rubbish. Emergency Services were called to the scene at about 8am and the man was extracted and taken to University Hospital Kerry with chest injuries.

“He was a lucky man,” the Emergency Services told the Killarney Advertiser.

“The crew operator saw him in the back of the lorry and raised the alarm. He was very lucky, this was one of the older type rubbish compactors that compacts after every 10th or so bin is placed in the truck. Modern trucks compact on every tip.”

The Killarney Advertiser understands that this is the second such incident in the town in recent weeks. Jarveys operating near the HaHa found a different man asleep in a bin in a nearby laneway in March.

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