Homeless man dies after being unwittingly emptied into a garbage truck

A homeless man was killed yesterday in Lodz when garbage collection workers emptied a trash container he had been sleeping in into the garbage truck. After loading the garbage into the truck and starting the compacting mechanism, the workers heard a scream. They stopped the machine, but it was too late. "It is not the duty of [garbage collectors] to look inside containers. They are not obliged to search through garbage. They just take the lids off the containers and start the machine," said the director of the Municipal Cleaning Company (MPO) Zbigniew Staryga. He said in the five years he has been the head of MPO, he had never heard of such an accident. (Rzeczpospolita, page A2) T.J.