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    Man dies in Manure Pit

    What a Shitty way to die.


    NIBLEY, Utah (AP) -- A man rounding up cows at a dairy fell into an ice-covered pit and died Friday, authorities said.

    The Cache County sheriff's office described it as a pit filled with water and soupy cow manure.

    "It is loose quicksand," Lt. Matt Bilodeau said. "You can't swim in it. You're almost completely incapacitated in it."

    Co-workers looked for the man after he disappeared for more than an hour. They followed his tracks in snow to the pit. A flat-bottom boat was launched to find the body.

    The victim's name was not immediately released. He was in his early 20s.

    (Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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    Someone's gotta say it: Sh*tty way to go.
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    What a pit it must be to have flat bottom boat paddling around That's a lot of crap

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    took a boat up the shit creek.... did they have a paddle?
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    He didn't

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    Had a buddies dog jump into one not far from that one. Luckily the dog got out.

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    This summer, a manure pit's gas output killed FIVE people here in Rockingham Co., VA. This from a local newspaper:

    July 3, 2007

    34-year-old Scott Showalter, a mennonite dairy farmer just outside Harrisonburg, was clearing a clogged pipe in his manure pit when he was overcome by the odorless gas methane

    He was then followed by his wife, two daughters, and a farm worker all who climbed into the poorly ventilated pit to try and save him, all who died.

    "It's just a tragedy. I mean, they're heartbroken, they're in shock right now and I think thats what would happen to any family under these circumstances," Rockingham County Sheriff Don Farley said.

    Authorities say this type of pit is not uncommon and the method to clear the pipe is one that's used often.

    "This was a repeated action that Mr. Showalter has done many times and just this day it was lined up in the stars that those gases could not escape and their odorless and you can't see them," Sheriff Farley said.

    Because methane displaces oxygen, people die from suffocation. Sherriff Farley said before they hit the floor they were probably all dead.

    "It was not a rescue mission, it was a recovery mission and it took us several hours to clear the pit of the harmful gas," Farley said.

    Along with Scott Showalter, his 33-year-old wife Phyllis, 11-year-old daughter Shayla and nine-year-old daughter Christina all died, as well 24-year-old farmhand Amous Stoltzfus.

    The Showalters left behind 2 other younger daughters.
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