Cops Find Suspect Neck-Deep in Manure

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Man Wanted on Methamphetamine Charges Found Hiding in Hog and Dog Feces; Treated for Hypothermia then Jailed


(AP) Police say that officers searching for a man wanted on methamphetamine charges found him hiding neck-deep in a liquid manure pit at a northeastern Indiana farm.

Noble County sheriff's deputies thought they'd lost 52-year-old Thomas Hovis Jr. until an officer spotted him in the tank beneath an outbuilding floor on the farm near Albion.

Chief Deputy Doug Harp says Hovis had been neck-deep in the combination of hog and dog feces for at least an hour Tuesday evening. He later became combative and had to be shocked twice with a stun gun.

Hovis was treated at a hospital for hypothermia before he being taken to jail.

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/26/ap/strange/main6432528.shtml

now thats what i call having a bad day....

[zappaman]

1. uh oh

He got himself in a shitload of trouble!

[hedgehog]

2. Seriously - the gases in a manure pit can smother you.

[Aramchek]

3. he forgot his snorkel

[underseasurveyor]

4. He's lucky he's not dead

The ammonia fumes and lack of oxygen should have suffocated him...
Idiot:dunce:

[petronius]

5. Wonder how many other officers spotted him earlier, and decided to wait and see

if someone else would make the grab? This would be a good place for selective blindness, it seems to me...

(Although, of course, I'm not advocating putting the suspect in danger or risking an escape...)