An Australian trying to save his fallen cell phone spent 36 hours in a sewer shaft. The man climbed a drain in Brisbane and became stuck over the weekend. He refused a passerby’s offer of help.
James Lingwood said he heard screaming from the drain while jogging on Sunday. He then saw the Australian standing knee deep in the water. “It’s not often you see someone in the drain, especially because there are rats, snakes, mosquitoes and all kinds of things.”
Lingwood asked the 30-year-old if he was okay and if he needed help. But the man refused because he could find a way out of the sewer himself. “So I just left him alone. “He didn’t want my help,” he told the Courier Mail newspaper.
Neighbors called the fire brigade
But the Australian apparently couldn’t do anything about it. On Monday, a resident heard loud wheezing from a sewer and alerted the fire brigade. She lifted the manhole cover and freed the man. It has rained a lot in Brisbane in recent days. This caused a lot of water to flow through the sewer, from which the man also drank.
Because he was hypothermic and had suffered abrasions, the 30-year-old was taken to hospital. Initially it was not known whether he could at least save his mobile phone during the operation.
Source: Krone
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