"I Think We're All Going to be a Lot Thinner": Drunk Man Gets "Trashed" in More Ways Than One, Somehow Survives Being Crushed TWICE in a Garbage Truck Compactor!

As these kinds of stories tend to go, at least this guy wasn't buck naked (link at bottom). And he was trying to be responsible.  That's why after recently getting wasted at a local bar in Portland, Oregon, 27-year-old Justin Gilpatrick (pictured above) says he made the decision to sleep it off rather than trying to drive home.

So he just fell asleep in his car 'til morning?  Nope.  Found a nice park bench to lay down upon?  Nah.  Simply took a long powder right there on the sidewalk?  Nothing like that, either.  Instead, the pie-eyed Gilpatrick reportedly curled up inside a damn trash dumpster.  Where ELSE would one ever possibly choose to lay his head?!?  (Although, maybe he was famished and looking for some scraps before hitting the hay?)

And being a dumpster, there's always the little problem of the fact that they, you know, tend to get picked up and tossed in the back of a trash compactor truck every now and then.  Which is precisely what reportedly happened at about 1:00 a.m. that night.

After the truck drooped the dumpster's trashy contents (including Gilpatrick) back in its compactor, the truck driver reportedly "drove for about a quarter of a mile and compacted his load twice before hearing Gilpatrick's terrified screams."

Lucky for this tanked trash man Gilpatrick, there wasn't much trash in the truck at the time -- which reportedly savid his life. Also lucky for him that the driver heard him screeching. 

As for that male driver, a local "waste management spokeswoman" told the media  that the driver deserves commendation for stopping the truck and "shutting down all of the moving parts" after he heard Gilpatrick raisin' a ruckus back there.  And with grounds like that for commendation from the ol' trash truck company, I'd hate to see what it takes to garner a reprimand from 'em.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/oregon-man-survives-being-compacted-dumpster-twice-175751385.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/13/justin-gilpatrick-survives-recycling-truck-compactor_n_1772507.html?utm_hp_ref=weird-news