Two people suffocated and several others were reportedly injured after a woman dropped her cell phone into a cesspool in Xinxiang City, Henan province, China.
According to the South China Morning Post, the woman's husband climbed down into the open-pit toilet to collect the phone, worth about $300. He was reportedly overcome by the stench, lost consciousness and fell in. The man's mother reportedly jumped in after her son, but she also fainted.
Neighbors were called for help after the owner of the phone tried to save her husband and mother-in-law. She also lost consciousness. Several other people were injured in an attempt to help the victims.
This happens a lot on pig farms. Also pigs eating people.
This also happened before, in 2005, in the same place.
"Four people were killed and another two poisoned in an open cesspool in the suburbs of Kuytun City, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, early Saturday. "
"A mobster was killed by being fed alive to pigs by rival gangsters, Italian police said yesterday. Francesco Raccosta was beaten with iron bars before being thrown screaming into a sty where he was swiftly eaten by the hungry animals."
Here in Brazil you have to be careful where you walk in. The cesspools are built under the houses' pavement. And some people save money by building non secure cesspools, so it's really common for people to be walking on the sidewalk and suddenly fall out on a cesspool and die.
Edit: Don't get Brazil wrong. This only happens in the poorest locations.
Here in Brazil you have to be careful where you walk in. The cesspools are built under the houses' pavement. And some people save money by building non secure cesspools, so it's really common for people to be walking on the sidewalk and suddenly fall out on a cesspool and die.