Florida Man Sleeping in Dumpster Tossed Into Trash Truck
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A homeless man was hospitalized after being tossed into a trash truck while sleeping in a dumpster in downtown Elkhart, Florida on Thursday evening.
Darrel Baker, 44, a driver for Advanced Disposal Services in St. Augustine, said he emptied the cardboard recycling dumpster from a gas station into the back of his truck at about 3 a.m. Wednesday and the knock came on his windshield while he was driving to his next stop about a block away, The St. Augustine (Fla.) Record reported Monday.
Police say John Green told them he was sleeping in a dumpster when he was dumped into the truck. A witness told police she heard a man yelling and saw Green hanging from the side of the truck. She said when the truck stopped, Green fell to the ground from the Himco trash truck.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The driver told St. Johns County sheriff's deputies the man "shook it off" and picked himself up.
"I guess I won't do that again," Baker quoted the man as saying.