Worker Clearing Wood Chipper Pulled To Death
Quoted from news.tbo.com
” TAMPA - A pile of wood chips 6 feet high was soaked with blood Wednesday afternoon after a Tampa construction worker died while clearing a lot on 127th Avenue.
A black high-top tennis shoe, barely recognizable, rested atop the pile next to the wood chipper.
“A piece of wood got stuck, and he tried to clear it out,” said 12-year-old Luis Santiago, a witness. “But he got pulled in. He yelled, `Help me! Help me!’ But the other worker couldn’t turn the machine off in time.””
Now this is the kicker…
“In a neighborhood hardened by crime and poverty, the death provided little more than a morbid distraction on an insufferably hot day. Crowds gathered in apartments across the street; some people drank beer.
Another group of neighbors looked on from the adjoining apartment complex. One man filmed the scene with his camcorder. People drove by with their car windows down and subwoofers pounding out rap music.
Children ate candy and watched as crime scene technicians tried to process the man’s remains, still lodged in the mouth of the chipper. “
From what I heard on the radio the man used his foot while attempting to dislodge the piece of wood…and was pulled into the chipper foot first. The bastards watched the man die slowly.
Equally as horrible is this news story: Youths beat, robbed trucker after triggering wreck
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