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“I was coming back from my jog and this particular morning my iPod wasn’t working, so I pulled the earbuds out of it,” Lingwood told Nine News on Wednesday. “Normally, I’ve got music blaring and I wouldn’t have heard anything.”
The brief pause was long enough for Lingwood to hear a voice calling out in the distance. “I hear this loud voice in an argumentative tone arguing about something … and I thought, it can’t be coming from the drain. That’s impossible,” he said.
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“So I walked back, and the voice got louder. I’m standing over the grate, and I leaned over and said, ‘Hello, anybody down there?’” Lingwood said to Nine News. “Out of the darkness, this guy came sloshing through the water, knee-deep in water, and he looked up.” He asked if the man was alright and was surprised at his response.
The man claimed there wasn’t any issue and that he could quickly get out of the drain if he chose. Bewildered, Lingwood continued his run but decided to check up on the man the next day. “I heard this sort of moaning, groaning sound,” Lingwood said. He called for emergency help, and within minutes, fire trucks, ambulances, and police cars were at the scene. “They got him out like a fish out of the drain.”
At first, it may seem like a heroic story of survival; however, police say the rescued man was fleeing authorities after being involved in two separate car accidents—one involving a police vehicle, before getting caught in the storm drain in an escape effort.
Police commissioner Steve Gollschewski says that despite his four decades as a police officer, the job surprises him. “It’s amazing what people will do sometimes and what happens, so yes, there are always surprises,” he told The Guardian.
The rescue itself was also not precisely film-worthy. Local firefighters simply lifted the drain cover while the man crawled out. He was taken to a local hospital for treatment.
Laura Ratliff is a New York City-based writer, editor, and runner. Laura's writing expertise spans numerous topics, ranging from travel and food and drink to reported pieces covering political and human rights issues. She has previously worked at Architectural Digest, Bloomberg News, and How Paris Hopes to Keep Olympians Cool This Summer Marathoner in Hawaii Rescues Dog from Cliff TripSavvy. Like many of us, Laura was bitten by the running bug later in life, after years of claiming to "hate running." Her favorite marathon is Big Sur.
