Death By Chocolate
Thursday, July 16th, 2009Death is dealt with bullets and stab wounds. Babies are conceived by rape. Lifeless kids are found in the trunks of cars. Although it’s the headquarters for Campbell’s Soup, Camden doesn’t taste good.
Last summer I passed through the little town for a Stone Temple Pilots concert and my observations solidified the prevailing wisdom that it is a dangerous city. Camden, New Jersey is the model DYSTOPIA.
After reading that a man died after falling into a vat of chocolate there, I thought to myself… What a lucky guy. Via CNN
An employee at a New Jersey chocolate processing plant died Wednesday after falling into a vat of hot chocolate, according to a spokesman for the Camden County Prosecutor’s office.Vincent Smith II, 29, was dumping raw chocolate into the vat for melting when he fell in from a nine-foot high platform. He suffered a fatal blow to the head from the vat’s agitator, a paddle-like mechanism used for stirring the chocolate.
According to the Camden County prosecutor’s office, three other people were on the platform at the time. One was able to shut the machinery off quickly, but it was too late to save Smith.
The facility, owned by Cocoa Services Inc., is managed and operated by by Lyons and Sons.
The rectangular vat, which was 8 feet deep, 14 feet long and 6 feet wide, was churning a batch of chocolate for Hershey’s when the accident occurred, the prosecutor’s office said.
