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Head First for a Phone

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WEDNESDAY, June 6, 2007, 8:14 p.m. By Jesse Garza

Man drowns trying to retrieve cell phone

A 41-year-old Sheboygan, WI man drowned in about a foot of water today after becoming trapped in a sewer while attempting to retrieve his cell phone.

"It was just an everyday event that ended in tragedy," Lt. James Veeser of the Sheboygan Police Department said.

According to Veeser, the incident was reported about 12:35 p.m. near the man's home in the 3200 block of N. 12th St. in Sheboygan.

When police arrived a bystander was attempting to pull the man from a vertical storm drain. The man weighed more than 300 pounds and was trapped head-first.

Witnesses told police that the man was talking on his cell phone and a short time later was seen in the sewer.

"He apparently dropped (the phone) into the sewer," Veeser said. "It then appeared he attempted to get the phone out with a rake."

The man then apparently lifted the sewer grate and became trapped after losing his balance and falling in.

There was approximately a foot of water in the sewer at the time, and when police and firefighters pulled the man out he was not breathing and did not have a pulse.

Rescue personnel attempted to resuscitate the man, who was taken to Aurora Sheboygan Memorial Medical Center and pronounced dead, Veeser said.

The man's phone was found at the bottom of the sewer, he said.

Sheboygan County Coroner David Leffin ruled the death an accidental drowning.

The victim's identity was not released tonight.

Submitted on 06/06/2007

Submitted by: James
Reference: Milwaukee Journal Sentinal 060607

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