It depends on the lid. There have been cases where children have gone into the septic. This story linked just below tells of a little girl in the USA which this happened to. If someone had not seen it happen right then, if say the child had been running on her own without someone right there with her at that second, who knows what the outcome would have been for the girl.
Also, note the case of Noah Thomas, who was found in his home's septic tank a few days after his disappearance when police finally contracted with a local septic company to have it pumped.
These occurrences are rare, sure, but not so rare as the alternative theory of sun and moon colliding the way things are going in the WT case. All I'm advocating for, is for a detective or someone to state uncategorically that FGM's septic was in fact pumped out, and if not, why not, and how about getting that done.
It seems there can be an issue with these newer plastic lids which have several screw holes all around. They aren't always screwed in as they should be. People get lazy, the little plastic things break so that the screws no longer hold anything, and sometimes even bad things have been known to have been done on purpose. These plastic lids can apparently flip if a little one steps on them in just a certain angle it seems, at which time the child can be devoured into a disgusting abyss, and then the lid flips right back on, as if nothing happened; in such an event, if it wasn't eye-witnessed, nobody would be the wiser, and obviously time would be of the essence.
Sorry I'm onto this again, it's one of those things that I haven't been able to let go of, and can't let go until someone who actually *knows for sure*, states that the dang thing was pumped, or if not, what is the excellent reason for why it wasn't, etc. Maybe you guys over there in Oz have something completely different (but I don't think so, since BS's tank was pumped out), which would make it somehow impossible for such an occurrence to happen there, but if so, then please enlighten me, that's all I'm asking. It isn't much to ask, imho.
Where are the news cameras showing FGM's tank being pumped, even with all of those media swarming the home over the days and weeks following his disappearance? They even inadvertently caught BS's work truck apparently on the street several days later when he returned to finally fix that washing machine, which was months before they knew he was a POI. But yet their news cameras didn't catch any septic pumpers at Grandma's house. I can't help thinking the only explanation for that can be because it wasn't *ever* done, and they felt it good enough to just visually 'look', perhaps poke a bit, and send down a small camera into the sludge, all of which just wouldn't cut it. It's like a $200-$300USD expenditure to get a pump truck out. SPEND THE MONEY. I'm sure millions of people would even donate the money! Then at least they could say they did it and the results were negative and my little brain could rest on that. Also... what of the neighbours and *their* septics, but considering that WT was said by his FPs to NOT be a wanderer, I doubt if he would have landed all the way onto a neighbouring property, considering the size of these semi rural lots, and I guess I could forgive if all of those neighbours were not pumped out, but I guess one never knows. Just saying at the *very* least, please tell me that FGM's was PUMPED. Okay, rant over (again, for now). Thank you.
http://www.nj.com/hunterdon-county-...ank_in_tewksbury_family_warns_of_dangers.html
http://www.roanoke.com/news/crime/p...cle_3a8008f9-0b17-5363-9c9a-71f2cd7ce252.html
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/toddle...ptic-tank-at-saskatchewan-rest-stop-1.2964319
http://www.myvirginiainjurylawyer.c...tic-tanks-are-more-common-than-you-may-think/