April 29, 2004

• Deliveryman eaten by sidewalk
  
  

  
  

  Cleveland, OH, Apr. 23 (UPI) -- An ice cream deliveryman was in good condition after falling about 15 feet through a sidewalk into an underground vault, the Cleveland Plain-Dealer said.

  
  

  Neil Cowen was on his way back to his truck Thursday after delivering four 3-gallon tubs of Velvet Ice Cream to a Chardon Township hot dog shop when the cement sidewalk in front of the storefront gave way under his feet.

  
  

  He plunged through the 6-inch slab of concrete and broke his leg in the fall. Rusted supports under the sidewalk appeared to have failed.

  
  

  "It just swallowed him up," said Mike Koszewski, owner of Mike's Wienery.

  
  

   

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