A homeless man had to scream for help after being tipped from a charity bin where he was sleeping into the back of a rubbish truck in Victoria's north. "(The rubbish truck driver) picked up that bin and then he drove to another location ... and that's when he heard the gentleman screaming," CFA Captain Ramon Steel told AAP. Firefighters rescued the man, who appeared to be aged in his 30s, using ladders. "They (the truck operators) were able to get the gentleman to the top of the garbage truck but couldn't get him down," Capt Steel said. The man was taken to Kerang Hospital in a stable condition with minor injuries and the incident is being investigated.

Source: Otago Daily Times May 17, 2019 01:18 UTC