Man who got stuck in dumpster while searching for his wife's dentures rescued by firefighters

A man in Waukesha, Wisconsin, who went the extra mile for his wife, ended up getting stuck in a dumpster. Firefighter Joseph Coffey says after 19 years on the job, what happened at a Dunkin’ Donuts on the evening of September 23rd was a career first, “That day, I was assigned to the ambulance,” Coffey said.



At the Dunkin’ Donuts an elderly couple had been in earlier in the day and returned that night - realizing they had left something important behind. As it turned out, the woman had somehow misplaced her dentures. Thinking the teeth had been thrown away, her husband wanted to search the garbage can inside the store, but the trash had already been taken to the dumpster out the back.

Despite a warning, the man stepped onto some pallets and went into the dumpster. The elderly man couldn’t get out of the dumpster, and Dunkin’ Donuts workers called for help. That’s where Joseph Coffey comes in. “That`s what always makes our job diverse. That`s what we do,” Coffey said.


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“We got there, put a few ladders in position and assisted the man out of the dumpster,” Coffey said. Coffey and city of Waukesha police went one step further. “Once we got him out of the dumpster, we assisted him looking through the rest of the trash to find the item,” Coffey said. Sadly, no dentures were found.