Fort Pierre woman falls head-first into her own wheelie bin while clearing leaves
A doorbell camera in Fort Pierre, South Dakota, caught a woman stepping on her bin's open lid while tidying autumn leaves – and tipping straight into the bin, legs in the air.
Autumn chores are supposed to be dull. In Fort Pierre, South Dakota, a spot of leaf-clearing turned into one of the week’s most-watched fails when a woman fell head-first into her own wheelie bin – and her doorbell camera caught the lot.
According to reports, Amanda Stoeser was moving her bin on Tuesday 10 November so she could fill it with leaves. The lid was flipped open, she stepped on it, tripped, and tipped straight over the rim, ending up inside the bin with her legs in the air.
Illustration: Gorilla Gazette / AI-generated image – not a real photo.
The Ring doorbell footage was shared through the video agency Storyful and quickly spread online, getting picked up by ABC News and USA Today, which described it as a “hilarious tumble straight into her trash bin”. She was not reported to be hurt – apart from, presumably, her pride.
It is a reminder that the bin lid is not a step, and that the best place for autumn leaves is inside the bin, rather than whoever is holding them.
Illustration: Gorilla Gazette / AI-generated image – not a real photo, and nobody actually used a ladder. Can you spot Gaz? #WheresGaz
Judges’ verdict: full marks for commitment, slightly fewer for the landing.
Sources: USA Today (13 Nov 2026) · ABC News · Kudzu Newz (12 Nov 2026).
Image credits: Top photo: Alanscottwalker, “Main and Deadwood Streets in Fort Pierre, South Dakota” (2018), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (representative, resized; not the actual incident). Illustrations: Gorilla Gazette / AI-generated, not real photos.
