An ordinary morning pumping septic tanks ended in an amazing survival story for Bruce Crank, owner of Bayou Septic Tank Service in Shreveport, La.Crank, 49, was on U.S. 80 en route to pump a residential septic tank in Bossier Parish June 27 when a front tire blew on his 1993 GMC vacuum truck. “It sucked the truck up against the concrete and metal guardrail, but I got off it,” says Crank. The next second, the vehicle swerved back, crashed through the guardrail, plunged 20 feet into Fifi Bayou, and bounced off its muddy bottom.The impact tore off the truck’s front
