After Months of Digging, Man Dies Between Rock and a Hard Place

There was a 3-ton rock buried in Paul Comeau Jr’s yard. And it wasn’t paying him no rent or something, so Paul embarked on a six-month eviction plan, digging around the rock in order to free it. The rock asserted squatter’s rights and pinned the man in the ditch he had dug. Worst Dig Dug Game ever.

From the AP here:

Police in New Hampshire say a man who tried to dig around a 6,000-pound boulder in his yard became pinned under the rock and died.

Police said 47-year-old Paul Comeau Jr. had been working on extricating the boulder over several months in his yard in Raymond. He was digging around the rock in an attempt to free it. While he was working on it Monday, the boulder became dislodged, causing him to be pinned between it and the wall of a ditch.

First-responders discovered Comeau was not conscious and was not breathing. A tow truck was needed to lift the boulder off him. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

No Pookas, and no Fygars. Dig Dug was squashed under a rock he loosened. Noob mistake.