Man Trapped Waist-Deep in Chocolate

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{"commentId":256131,"authorDomain":"wilhelm"}
Damascus

Haha, awesome!

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  • 4 votes
Reply#1 - Fri Aug 18, 2006 9:36 AM EDT
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Territan

I'm sorry, it has to be said...

"Someone throw that man a donut!"

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  • 13 votes
Reply#2 - Fri Aug 18, 2006 9:50 AM EDT
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goodcookn

screw the donut...give the man a marshmallow and some gram crackers! HAHA!

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  • 1 vote
#2.1 - Fri Aug 18, 2006 1:29 PM EDT
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stevetherobot

He should be thankful that he didn't go in head first.

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  • 3 votes
Reply#3 - Fri Aug 18, 2006 10:16 AM EDT
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Tony Angelo

Sweet! Ahem.... No pun intended

When I saw the headline I thought for sure it was in Burlington at the Nestle factory. Opening up the story I was surprised to learn it was in my hometown of Kenosha. Kenosha on Newsvine -- sweet! [shout-out to K-Town]

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  • 6 votes
Reply#4 - Fri Aug 18, 2006 10:16 AM EDT
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Reginald Freeman

w00t!

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  • 2 votes
#4.1 - Fri Aug 18, 2006 1:38 PM EDT
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{"commentId":256207,"authorDomain":"evandavid"}
evandavid

If I was the head of this company I would be starting a line of "gummy men stuck in chocolate" bars.

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  • 9 votes
Reply#5 - Fri Aug 18, 2006 10:29 AM EDT
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Darrell J. Rohl

Nice idea.

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  • 2 votes
#5.1 - Fri Aug 18, 2006 10:41 AM EDT
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marclar

Seriously - that's an excellent idea :)

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  • 1 vote
#5.2 - Fri Aug 18, 2006 11:29 AM EDT
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flloyd

Awesome. Name them after the kid, like Danny Bars or whatever his is.

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  • 1 vote
#5.3 - Fri Aug 18, 2006 2:16 PM EDT
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Cardinal Biggles

They should make a gummy-chocolate Jesus, so communion can actually be worthwhile.

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  • 2 votes
#5.4 - Fri Aug 18, 2006 9:17 PM EDT
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{"commentId":256360,"authorDomain":"strongbad"}
Sean Balsiger

Am I the only one wondering what they would have done with the chocolate had he gotten out? Were they going to sell it, meaning that a bunch of people would eat chocolate some guy had walked through. I gotta say, that's pretty gross.

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  • 3 votes
Reply#6 - Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:00 PM EDT
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Billy Shih

It said in the article they thinned it out, so I doubt the chocolate would be any good anymore. However since he got into the tank to unplug it, it sounds like a common occurance? So maybe people do crawl around in our chocolate. Hopefully they have some kind of protection though... like a thin candy shell.

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  • 11 votes
#6.1 - Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:15 PM EDT
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Betsy

Sean Balsiger that was my exact thought when I read this article, they act like it's totally normal for a guy to be walking around in our chocolate.. I'm feeling less like eating my m&ms today...

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  • 1 vote
#6.3 - Fri Aug 18, 2006 2:57 PM EDT
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ChaosEsper

Well, I really doubt that it has that much of an effect on it. I'm sure that he was wearing a protective suit or something. I mean do any of you guys send mail at all? The glue on envelopes has been known to house cockroach eggs, and dead rats have been found in the vats. It's just a matter of what you're willing to accept. Since I haven't heard of any epidemics spread by dirty guys bathing in the chocolate vats I'm not too worried about my chocolate supply.

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    #6.4 - Fri Aug 18, 2006 3:34 PM EDT
    {"commentId":256929,"authorDomain":"brianford"}
    Brian Ford
    The glue on envelopes has been known to house cockroach eggs,

    No, it hasn't.

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    • 2 votes
    #6.5 - Fri Aug 18, 2006 5:47 PM EDT
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    {"commentId":256403,"authorDomain":"mvelinder"}
    mvelinderExpand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

    Really? This is the crap that we're publishing on the front page?

    As I've said before... we need some user-filtering ability to seed out this absurd AP articles.

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    • 1 vote
    Reply#7 - Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:16 PM EDT
    {"commentId":256419,"authorDomain":"melonhead"}
    urbane gorilla

    ohlightenup.

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    • 10 votes
    #7.1 - Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:25 PM EDT
    {"commentId":256496,"authorDomain":"QACoach"}
    QACoach

    Have to agree with miss j...everything we read or seed does not have to be murder, war, mayhem and politics!

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    • 4 votes
    #7.2 - Fri Aug 18, 2006 1:17 PM EDT
    {"commentId":256508,"authorDomain":"MissDev"}
    Miss Dev

    Hehe - I enjoy to have a little giggle with my coffee - rather than the same ol' doom and gloom.

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    • 4 votes
    #7.3 - Fri Aug 18, 2006 1:23 PM EDT
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    {"commentId":256417,"authorDomain":"melonhead"}
    urbane gorilla

    a man? unfair - it should have been me - or at least a woman!

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    • 1 vote
    Reply#8 - Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:24 PM EDT
    {"commentId":256530,"authorDomain":"stevetherobot"}
    stevetherobot

    A woman covered in chocolate? Now that's an idea I can get behind.

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    • 6 votes
    #8.1 - Fri Aug 18, 2006 1:33 PM EDT
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    Permanent4

    Or underneath.

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    • 2 votes
    #8.2 - Fri Aug 18, 2006 2:02 PM EDT
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    {"commentId":256934,"authorDomain":"Nycam"}
    Nycam
    a man? unfair - it should have been me - or at least a woman!

    Actually, it can still be you. Bring some Godiva and a Bunsen burner ; )

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    • 2 votes
    #8.4 - Fri Aug 18, 2006 5:51 PM EDT
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    urbane gorilla

    ;)

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    • 1 vote
    #8.5 - Fri Aug 18, 2006 6:51 PM EDT
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    {"commentId":256578,"authorDomain":"permanent4"}
    Permanent4

    Treatment of minor injuries?

    Yeah, minor injuries of deliciousness.

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    • 4 votes
    Reply#9 - Fri Aug 18, 2006 2:03 PM EDT
    {"commentId":256721,"authorDomain":"winsomecowboy"}
    winsomecowboy

    I hope he's given at least a week off to lick himself clean. Rent himself out as flypaper or strolling licksnack at childrens parties.

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    • 2 votes
    Reply#10 - Fri Aug 18, 2006 3:33 PM EDT
    {"commentId":256748,"authorDomain":"sphinx"}
    Jack Huang

    Being a strolling licksnack for children's parties naturally leads to being flypaper for lawsuits.

    (Though "Strolling Licksnack" would be a great name for a rock band)

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    • 2 votes
    #10.1 - Fri Aug 18, 2006 3:45 PM EDT
    {"commentId":256797,"authorDomain":"Nycam"}
    Nycam
    "Strolling Licksnack"

    Excellent! Smithers, get me a piece.

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    • 2 votes
    #10.2 - Fri Aug 18, 2006 4:19 PM EDT
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    {"commentId":256759,"authorDomain":"wolfanoz"}
    Wolfanoz

    But I luf ze' shocolate!

    - Augustus

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    • 1 vote
    Reply#11 - Fri Aug 18, 2006 3:53 PM EDT
    {"commentId":256796,"authorDomain":"cameron-garvie"}
    Cameron Garvie

    To whomever is interested in the cleaniness of your chocolate: The average bar has eight insect legs.

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      Reply#12 - Fri Aug 18, 2006 4:19 PM EDT
      {"commentId":256813,"authorDomain":"sphinx"}
      Jack Huang

      Hey, you gotta get your protein from somewhere.

      Twizzlers sure as heck don't got enough.

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        #12.1 - Fri Aug 18, 2006 4:27 PM EDT
        {"commentId":256816,"authorDomain":"stevetherobot"}
        stevetherobot

        Only eight? I want my money back.

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        • 2 votes
        #12.2 - Fri Aug 18, 2006 4:31 PM EDT
        {"commentId":256824,"authorDomain":"sphinx"}
        Jack Huang

        Sorry, PETA's been on Hershey's ass lately.

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          #12.3 - Fri Aug 18, 2006 4:36 PM EDT
          {"commentId":256914,"authorDomain":"strongbad"}
          Sean Balsiger
          The average bar has eight insect legs.

          And I thought I'd only eaten one chocolate covered grasshopper in my life.

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          • 1 vote
          #12.4 - Fri Aug 18, 2006 5:38 PM EDT
          {"commentId":257086,"authorDomain":"winsomecowboy"}
          winsomecowboy

          Sorry in advance

          Sorry, PETA's been on Hershey's ass lately.

          While in other news Peter's up to his ass in Hersheys.

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          • 2 votes
          #12.5 - Fri Aug 18, 2006 9:05 PM EDT
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          {"commentId":256922,"authorDomain":"mywildcrow"}
          mywildcrow

          Tom & Dick "Smother's Brothers" were way ahead of this story in the '60's !

          Their song lyrics:

          I fell in a vat of Chocolate.

          Whatd' you do when you fell into the chocolate?

          I yelled 'FIRE' when I fell in the chocolate, 'cause no one whould save me if I yelled 'CHOCOLATE'.

          (Tommy and Dick please excuse the abrreviated version of your song. My sister, Ruth and I still remimber it correct word-forword to this day.)

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          • 2 votes
          Reply#13 - Fri Aug 18, 2006 5:42 PM EDT
          {"commentId":257063,"authorDomain":"robpayne"}
          robpayne

          New, obligatory headline for this one: * Heard in Kenosha, today: "I'm covered in chocolate, and I can't get up!"

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          • 2 votes
          Reply#14 - Fri Aug 18, 2006 8:40 PM EDT
          {"commentId":257172,"authorDomain":"Paradox460"}
          Paradox460

          Are you eating the chocolate, or is it eating you?

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          • 2 votes
          Reply#15 - Fri Aug 18, 2006 10:35 PM EDT
          {"commentId":257266,"authorDomain":"LAUHAL63"}
          lauhal

          Why is there ass hair in my Hershey bar?

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          • 2 votes
          Reply#16 - Sat Aug 19, 2006 2:15 AM EDT
          {"commentId":257489,"authorDomain":"Nycam"}
          Nycam

          Because you need to be wearing PANTS if you're going to stick it in your back pocket.

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          • 3 votes
          #16.1 - Sat Aug 19, 2006 12:20 PM EDT
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          {"commentId":265342,"authorDomain":"stolte-sawa"}
          Ryan Stolte-Sawa

          Stop the presses. "Trapped?"

          Surely they meant "wrapped." Wrapped in delicious, silky, melt-in-your-mouth chocolate! Chocolate of the Gods! Chocolate used to make our favourite candy bars across the country! Wrapped in heaven!

          And then...covered in beeeeees!

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            Reply#17 - Fri Aug 25, 2006 3:55 PM EDT
            {"commentId":266587,"authorDomain":"sphinx"}
            Jack Huang

            ...while punching a baboon.

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              #17.1 - Sun Aug 27, 2006 12:08 AM EDT
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              Ryan Stolte-Sawa

              This is my mime. Get out of my mime...

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                #17.2 - Sun Aug 27, 2006 10:20 AM EDT
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