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Three people may have watched a few too many movies about sewer-dwelling Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as kids. One of the three had to be rescued from Sacramento’s sewer system overnight.

Sacramento police say a 26-year-old man whose identity has not been released,19-year-old Rhea Schroeder, his girlfriend and his 24-year-old brother Jacob Reinitz, had been drinking early Tuesday and decided to climb into the underground tunnels near Florin Road around 1:00 this morning.

The three walked about 200 yards in the drain and then tried to surface. When the older brother was lifting a manhole cover in the middle of a street, his head was struck by a passing car.

Firefighters climbed down into the sewer to attend to the injured man and strap him to a rescue board. They then set-up a tri-pod rescue system over the manhole and lifted the injured man out of the sewer with a hook connected to the tri-pod.

Many of the rescue crews involved say this type of sewer rescue was a first for them.

Full Article: CBS13

I too loved TMNT when I was younger, but I never had any desire to run around in the sewers. Hopefully their childhood fantasies have been fulfilled and they have learned a lesson.