BOULDER — A 22-year-old University of Colorado student spent seven to eight hours in calf-deep water in a partially frozen ditch near Sixth and Pleasant streets before being found by a passerby this morning and rescued by Boulder firefighters.
The student, identified by police as Grant Munski, said he’d been drinking the night before and had fallen into the ditch around 2:30 a.m., Boulder police and fire spokeswoman Kim Kobel said.
Munski was was found in the mouth of a culvert in Anderson’s Ditch a little after 10 a.m. today by a worker with Lafayette Water who was checking the ditch, which is maintained by the city of Lafayette.
“This passerby saved his life,” Kobel said. “He was not in a place where he could be easily seen. If this person had not found him, he could have been there for days.”
