There are bad days . . . really bad days . . . and what THIS woman went through on trash day.
A 60-year-old woman in New Hampshire is lucky to be alive . . . after she was thrown into a garbage truck on Monday and "compacted" at least four times.
The woman had apparently fallen into a dumpster outside her apartment while trying to throw out a bag of trash. Officials haven't said how long she was stuck in the dumpster, but she was still in there when the garbage truck came through.
The truck emptied the dumpster with her in it and then began compacting.
The driver said it crunched around four times before he saw her on the internal camera and called 911.
This truck had a monitor that allowed drivers to see into the back of the truck. Sometimes they see animals like raccoons in there . . . but seeing a WOMAN had to be horrifying.
He wasn't the only one who noticed. Neighbors could HEAR the woman screaming from inside the truck. One witness told the local news that it sounded like she was in agony.
The firefighters showed up and talked to the woman through a side panel in the truck. They could tell that she was alive, but she wasn't coherent.
They used the firetruck basket to lift her out of the top of the trash truck. It took about 30 minutes to free her.
She was taken to the hospital, where she's expected to be okay. There are conflicting reports about the severity . . . some say she escaped with "minor" injuries, others say she's in "serious condition."
By the way, fire officials also made sure the driver was okay, and he was . . . supposedly "this isn't the first time this has happened to him."
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