Posted: 4/3/2008 11:43:57 AM EDT
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By Associated Press VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) - Authorities say a transient climbing over a chain link fence in Vancouver choked to death when he got tangled in the straps of his beer-filled backpack. Police say 51-year-old James Francis Henry had been drinking beer Tuesday night while walking with his girlfriend, 38-year-old Kelli Jo Barkley. They were returning to their homeless encampment from their roadside panhandling site. Barkley says he fell while trying to scale a 6-foot chain link fence, got his neck caught in the chest strap of his backpack and said, "Help me! Help me!" By the time she got a nearby resident to call 911 and emergency crews arrived, Henry was unconscious and could not be revived. Police said his backpack contained about a dozen 40-ounce bottles of beer. Saw this on the Komo Website...... Killed by his BOB or was it a GHB  |
