Man nearly crushed in garbage truck had sleep options other than Dumpster, advocate says | MLive.com:
"The Muskegon man is now recovering at Spectrum Health Butterworth Hospital from broken ribs, a broken collar bone and a mouth injury.
He escaped death by yelling and pounding on the wall of the Waste Management truck, alerting the driver that he was trapped inside.
By that time, he already had evaded the compactor once by maneuvering himself over the hydraulic plate used to compress trash.
"It's a miracle he is alive," Bartlett said. "God definitely preserved his life."
Bartlett said the man could have stayed Thursday night at the Rescue Mission.
"Our beds are not full and we didn't refuse anyone last night," he said.
"If a person had come here at 9 p.m. or 10 p.m. last night, we would have housed him."
Police said the man climbed into the Dumpstser, near Parkview Apartments at Ninth Street and Columbia Avenue, about 9 p.m. Thursday to get out of the wet and cold conditions."
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