Wichita firefighters rescued a man from a garbage truck early Friday morning. People have been injured in Wichita dumpsters before, including in February 2013. KAKE News tries to answer the question: Why would someone choose to sleep inside a dumpster instead of in a shelter?
“Where the dumpsters are, there, the one that faces our house, I’ve seen them go in there before,” said Wichita resident Manuel Acosta. “Sometimes two at a time.”
Acosta lives near Central and West street, and he says people sleeping inside dumpsters there is nothing new. But, around 4:30 Friday morning, a man sleeping inside one of those dumpsters got a rough awakening. A Waste Management truck picked up the dumpster, pouring the man into the back of the truck. The 911 audio describes the event:
(Read more: KAKE – News)