According to police, the 52-year-old man was apparently sleeping in an unlocked recycling dumpster in the downtown core when a recycling truck came along shortly after 6 a.m.
Penticton RCMP say they were alerted to the incident when the truck driver phoned 911, saying someone was yelling in the back of the large truck after he had picked up a dumpster, dumped it into the truck, then compacted the load.
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