Emergency crews rescue man trapped under manhole cover in Northeast Philly ⁠7%

By Michaela Althouse⁠25%

7/16/2026, 2:26:24 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 10 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Ambiguity (Equivocation), and Blind-Spot Bias, with Unattributed Quote as the most egregious example at 26.7% saturation with 47 hits. Analysis detected 184 faulty-reasoning hits from 176 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 23.1% and a BS Rank of ⁠7% (20,445 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 93.40% of the article peer group.

Emergency crews rescued a man who was trapped under a manhole cover in Northeast Philadelphia on Wednesday afternoon, according to a local police group. 
First responders arrived at the scene near Bustleton and Tustin avenue, the 7th Police District Advisory Council said in a social media post. 
The recovery of the man took over a half hour, as Philadelphia Fire Department crews were unable to open the manhole cover and the Philadelphia Water Department had to be called. 
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The advisory council said that the man, who has not been identified, entered a few blocks away and was unable to find his way out. 
It's unclear how he made his way underground, how long he remained there and his motivation for doing so. 
A video posted to social media also shows Philadelphia police on the scene. 
The council is a volunteer-run partnership between police and community members. 
Watch the video of the rescue below. 
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176 words analyzed.

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Writer's voice • 11 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 24 words • 100.0% coverage7th Police District Advisory Council • 23 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 31 words • 0.0% coverageNational Weather Service • 12 words • 0.0% coverage7th Police District Advisory Council • 25 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 19 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 11 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 7 words • 100.0% coverage
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0%25.0%50.0%Unattributed Quote+27.2 ptsWriter: 20.7%7th Police District Advisory Council: 47.9%47.9%Quote-first Misdirection-11.2 ptsWriter: 11.2%7th Police District Advisory Council: 0.0%0.0%Indoctrination-6.0 ptsWriter: 6.0%7th Police District Advisory Council: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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