'Highly intoxicated' Summerside man plucked from city sewer

A "highly intoxicated" 19-year-old man says he can't remember how he ended up in a sewer in Summerside, P.E.I., early Friday morning, police say.

Around 1:16 a.m., Summerside Policeresponded to a call from a passerby who saw the man stuck in a manhole on Arcona Street.

When police arrived they had no ideawhat to make of the scene, said Cpl. JasonBlacquiere

"We really aren't quite sure what happened at this point.

[There] might have been some horseplay involved.- Cpl. JasonBlacquiere

"The person who was in the manhole was not offering a whole lot of explanation, which kind of leads us to believe [there] might have been some horseplay involved."

The man was too stuck to get out on his own, so officers hauled him outfrom his arms,Blacquieresaid.

He said the man, who is from the Summerside area, was "highly intoxicated" and couldn't provide any answers as to how he got in the predicament.

"He said he couldn't remember what happened we're assuming there was something other than falling into an open hole," Blacquieresaid.

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