Iraq veteran PFC Joseph Dwyer, famed in a patriotic wave in 2003 for the above picture in which he is rescuing an Iraqi child at Mt. Sinai, was found dead at his North Carolina home after apparent abuse of a computer aerosol.

Dwyer returned home from the war in 2006, already suffering from post-traumatic stress. He was unable to hold a job, clung to his firearms and fell into deep depression. He was treated at VAs but nothing helped. Dwyer’s recent death at age 31 will stand as an ironic tragedy.

Three drunk men, all in their twenties, decided it would be a good idea to play in Sacramento’s sewer system. They were reminiscing of the good times they had playing sewer dwelling turtles in their make-believe Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game as teens. The men became stuck in the sewer and had to be removed yesterday in the middle of the night.

Police were patrolling the area by the sewer system around 1:00 a.m. when they heard the men. The men used the excuse that they used to explore the sewer as teens, so why couldn’t they now? The men attempted to lift a 100 pound manhole cover and try to get out of the sewer. Once they lifted the manhole a car passed over it causing it to come down onto the head of one of the men.

Firefighters had to climb down into the sewer, strap the injured man to a backboard and lift him out on the rescue board. The firefighters said they have seen a lot of strange things in their line of work but this sewer rescue was a first for them. The man was not seriously hurt.