Some Real Sad Crap

Good Lord, what can you say. On the one hand it's so terribly sad, but if you haven't been raised around a farm it seems absolutely bizarre.

GRANGEVILLE, Calif. (AP) -- A dairy worker and his 8-year-old son died in a manure pit on the farm where they lived, authorities said Tuesday.

Luis Gutierrez, 27, and Luis Armando Gutierrez went to feed calves Saturday night and apparently stumbled upon the manure pit in the dark, investigators said.

Footsteps near the edge of the 10-foot deep pit seem to suggest one of them fell in, said Kings County Sheriff Allan McClain.

"We could see the dad seemed to be doing what he could to reach his son," McClain said. "But this stuff ... if you step in, it sucks you in."

Comments

[ldk]

I'm from Iowa, and that happened to a young man in my hometown. It is a strange and horrible way to die.

[PoorPaulaNNJP]

Very sad!
Many dangers for that stuff. It has combusted and caused huge fires in California.
Very sad!

[shonane]

On my granddaddy's farm, he raised a lot of cattle. These cattle just pooped all over the pastures, you really didn't notice it that much, and it fairly rapidly decomposes and enriches the dirt/grass. The flies have a joy spot for about week or two. But if you are walking around in the pasture, they are pretty far apart and you just avoid walking on them like the ant hills. Now one would want to avoid the spot they hung out the previous day as it has clusters of the stuff, but the cows move on to a new spot cause they like it clean too. Nature to nature. On these midsize farms they don't usually go around collecting it and putting it in a big pit. Wonder why they do that. I am only guessing that maybe they have too many cows on the amount of land in which case it could become poop city.

What a tragic way to die.