Florida Man Sleeping in Dumpster Tossed Into Trash Truck

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Published January 13, 2015

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.

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.

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