Mum's the word
A man planting chrysanthemums on his mother's grave was trapped for two hours when the ground gave way and he sank knee-high, AP reports from Newtown, Pennsylvania. Kenneth McLaughlin, 29, said he tried to free himself, but the leg that sank into soft ground became stuck under the base of his mother's headstone. Help arrived after two hours.
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