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OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – Two weeks after emergency crews rescued a person trapped within a working rubbish truck, he’s out of the hospital and talking about his expertise for the primary time.
Marcus Lengthy was nearly instantly dropped at tears as he mirrored on the ordeal.
“Did I do one thing flawed to deserve it? No,” he mentioned Tuesday. “Did I make a nasty mistake by getting in there, yeah. Is it my fault? Yeah.”
Arduous questions and self-criticism remembering how he ended up within the traumatic accident he is aware of might have killed him.
On a chilly, windy night time in Could, he took shelter from the climate in a close-by dumpster close to the nook of Reno and Macarthur.
“I appeared round and I’m going, alright effectively I’m freezing,” Lengthy mentioned.
He awoke with a shock because the claws of a dump truck slammed into the container.
“I attempted to crawl out the highest and I used to be yelling for my life. Cease! Cease!” however his pleas for assist went unheard underneath the loud din of the truck.
Moments later, he was dumped headlong into the truck, left injured and unable to flee.
“I arise and I’m actually attempting to crawl out of his truck and I soar in, it’s convex. It’s like American Ninja,” Lengthy mentioned.
It was then he mentioned the compactor knocked him out chilly.
“The very last thing I mentioned was, ‘God, let thy can be performed,’” Lengthy mentioned. “I used to be crushed and I went out. I don’t bear in mind a factor.”
Lengthy mentioned he wasn’t aware when the truck’s driver noticed a physique within the surveillance footage from contained in the truck.
Fireplace crews pulled Lengthy out and loaded him onto a stretcher.
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He woke as much as medical doctors explaining he suffered 4 damaged ribs, a punctured lung, destroyed scapula and quite a few different accidents he should now cope with, a protracted street to restoration.
“I may be put in a state of affairs the place I’m homeless, you understand, for a minute, however don’t have a look at me like I’m one,” Lengthy mentioned, holding tight to his religion. “I do know I stroll with God and He walks with me as a result of that ought to have by rights ended my life. I don’t see many individuals strolling away from that.”
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