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17th April 2024 Issue no. 701

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A crushing arrest

A supermarket thief who hid in a refuse truck when police were called had to use his mobile phone to call for help when the machine started to compact the rubbish inside - including himself.

Emergency operators took the call and during a 16-minute conversation, the man told dispatchers he thought he was dying. 'I'm dying man,' he said, complaining his bones were being crushed, saying he knew he wouldn't walk again and screaming at the top of his lungs each time the truck driver picked up another load and compacted what was in the truck.

He is heard telling dispatchers at one point that he didn't care what happened to him, he just wanted to live.

eventually police stopped the vehicle  and the by-now compacted cardboard was emptied from the vehicle - along with the suspect who was feeling pretty crushed by the experience.

20th October 2010