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Sometimes, the person doing the falling aimed for the trash.
 
When the character picks himself up, there is a good chance they will stop to remove debris or food from their clothing. This will *always* include a [[Banana Peel]]. For large trash piles, they might not need to stop -- trashstop—trash will fall off their clothes as they move. Bonus points if someone tries eating items from the trash.
 
Another common variation, limited solely to comic uses, generally to kids' shows and mostly to people who really deserve it, is the big-ol' pile of horsesh... er, manure.
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== [[Anime and Manga]] ==
* Purposely arranged in ''[[Death Note]]'' so Matsuda can convincingly fake his death to escape from a cabal of [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Corrupt Corporate Executives]]s.
 
 
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* In the ''[[Chuck]]'' episode "Chuck Versus the Marlin", Sarah and a Fulcrom agent fight on a rooftop. Chuck arrives just in time to see them both go over the edge, but running to the edge he discovers that they landed safely in a dumpster.
* Like in ''L&O SVU'' above, in ''[[The X-Files]]'' episode "Essence" a foe falls off a roof while fighting Mulder and Scully. He seems to land safely in a garbage truck... but then the compactor is activated.
* Tested by the ''[[Myth Busters]]'' -- if—if you're ''certain'' there's nothing dangerous under that top layer of trash, it's doable. Their "best case" setup assumed a dumpster used by a mattress factory and thus full of foam scrap; it did a better job of cushioning Buster's (and later Adam's) fall than the regulation stunt airbag.
** However, when they went to a waste disposal facility to look through dumpsters, they noted that the three that they selected at random to look at had items like medical waste, rebar and wood slats, which would likely severely injure anyone jumping into the dumpster.
* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "Survival", the Doctor is thrown from the explosion when neither he nor the guy he's playing motorcycle-chicken with swerves in time. He lands face first (and arse up) in a pile of rubbish someone was nice enough to leave lying in an abandoned field.
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