I read that last night, Alice. Is this someone you know?

Meanwhile, this one makes me feel claustrophoic just reading it:

Burglary suspect gets self caught in pipe
Fort Worth Star-Telegram

A burglary suspect who crawled into a 24-inch storm-sewer pipe with Denton police officers in pursuit Tuesday morning was dragged out hours later after water department crews dug a hole into the pipe, authorities said.

Police got a call about 9:30 a.m. from a resident in the 500 block of South Bell Street saying a burglar was inside his home, said Officer Jim Bryan, a Denton police spokesman. When officers arrived, a man jumped from a back window and led the officers on a foot chase that lasted about 10 minutes before the man climbed into the pipe in a drainage canal in the 700 block of South Locust Street, Bryan said.

"He scooted down that pipe and the last we saw of him was his backside going down the pipe," Bryan said. Officers waited for the man to come out, but when he didn't, they called the city's water department.

Water crews and Denton firefighters tried to put cameras horizontally into the pipe but were blocked by mud and debris, Bryan said. Then, they dug three holes down from the surface, cutting into the pipe and inserting the camera to look for the man. They eventually saw his feet more than 300 feet from where he entered the pipe, Bryan said.

It was night before officers pulled the man out through one of the holes, Bryan said. The man was treated at Denton Regional Medical Center and released into police custody, Bryan said. The man was in the Denton City Jail late Tuesday facing a charge of evading arrest.