Hunter pulled from sinkhole near Mentor, Minn.

[Lee Borgersen]

Published October 29, 2011,  
Hunter pulled from sinkhole near Mentor, Minn.
A duck hunter had a fright worthy of Halloween after he was pulled from a sinkhole Saturday morning near Mentor, Minn.
By:   Herald Staff Report, Grand Forks Herald


Peter John Fehlen, 37, Burnsville, Minn., and two friends were duck hunting in Tilden Township near Mentor when Fehlen stepped into the sinkhole in wetlands, according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office.

Fehlen could not move, let alone escape the sinkhole, which was several hundred yards south of Polk County Road 45. One of his friends, Joseph Woodruff, 25, Roseville, Minn., called 911 at about 11 a.m., and personnel from the sheriff’s office, Mentor Fire Rescue, Fertile (Minn.) EMS and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources responded.

By the time rescuers arrived, Fehlen was chest deep in the mud and still sinking, authorities said. A flotation device was thrown to him, and members of Mentor Fire Rescue reached him using a tracked vehicle and an inflatable watercraft.

Once he was freed from the sinkhole, Fehlen received first-aid and was taken to a hospital, where he was treated and released later Saturday.

[Geodopolis]

Floating bogs give me the heeby jeeby's!  One wrong step and you can be in past your waders in goose poo!  Done that once this year so far.

[deadeye]

I know it may have been a potentially serious situation.  However, you just have to see the humor in it.  Years to come he will hear "hey, Charlie, remember the time you fell in the sink hole and we need the fire rescue squad to get you out"?  Too funny.