[Pan_Yan]

Articles like this make me think FR needs a topic category just for them. Maybe "stupid people tricks."

[Pan_Yan]

This sounds like an article about for your crew.

[cripplecreek]

In a toaster?

[dfwgator]

"Hello, hello, operator? Yes we're trying to get the fire brigade ... No, the fire brigade. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, what? ... Size eight."

[Steve_Seattle]

"each instance cost taxpayers some £290, meaning the mishaps have cost at least £377,000."

I question that figure. The fire fighters would be on duty - and on the clock - regardless of whether they get a call. Maybe there would be a slight increase in gasoline costs as a result of these calls, but not to the tune of £290 per call.

[Hardraade]

If they’re only “red” stuck in a toaster, they’re on low setting.

Hardly anything to bother with. Just unplug the device.

[Billthedrill]

Firefighters in London have been called to assist people who have become stuck in objects such as handcuffs and toilet seats...

See? Other people get caught handcuffed to toilet seats too. I'm not the only one. Officer.

[fredhead]

Kind of like two episodes of one of my favorite shows, “Untold Stories of the ER.” One story was a guy who got his “member” stuck in a camp stove. The other was hilarious.....guy comes in with the 4 hour Viagra erection with his girlfriend, then his wife shows up.

[Popman]

Some 18 incidents involved children with their heads stuck in potties or toilet seats

OK..maybe the pottie or toilets are a different design in jolly old England...but just how in the h*ll do you get your head stuck in the toilet?

[George Varnum]

When I was an MP at Ft. Benning back around 69 the post hospital security guard called in too hysterical to comprehend, so we sent out a patrol.

Seems this senior NCO came waddling in to the ER with a terribly pained expression on his battle scarred face and a canister vacuum cleaner between his thighs; was having too much fun and couldn’t get his manhood back.

The medics had to call in post engineers to dismantle the affectionate appliance and our guard couldn’t stop laughing for the rest of his shift.