I'm sorry, but I couldn't help myself. Makes you wonder about the
hazzards that our ancestors faced. This one was on the AP News Site:
Man Trapped in Outhouse for Three
Days
Rescued from Collapsed Structure by Mail Carrier
Aug. 18, 2000
IVANHOE, Va. (AP) -- For three days, Coolidge Winesett sat mired in the
five-foot hole of a partially collapsed outhouse, alternately yelling
for help
and trying to cope with the stench.
"I tell you what, it was hard to get one breath down there," Winesett,
75,
said Wednesday, a day after being rescued by a mail carrier who noticed
that Winesett's deliveries were still in the box and went looking for
him.
Jimmy Jackson, the mail carrier, found no sign of Winesett at his house
or
car. But Jackson spotted Winesett's crutch propped beside the outhouse.
"The closer I got, I heard a faint sound like somebody trying to
holler,"
Jackson said.
'Down it went'
Winesett, who is partially paralyzed from a stroke and lives alone,
fell
Saturday when the outhouse floor and part of a wall gave way.
"Down it went and took me with it," he said. "I thought it was an
earthquake. Then I realized where I was at. ...I done a lot of
hollering, but
nobody couldn't hear me."
The collapsed floor save Winesett from being dunked in the deepest
sludge
Be careful when you explore the old homestead! Have a good weekend.
Rita
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