Man stuck in pavement for two hours.

When this man accidentally dropped his
cigarette lighter down a hole in a pavement he made the ill-advised
decision to try and retrieve it – with his feet.









Man was stuck in a lamp-post hole for hours in Swansea before being rescued by firefighters



It was a choice he lived to regret. Having misjudged the diameter of the 18in
(30 centimetre) hole, which workmen had dug to fix in a lamppost, he became
wedged in it up to his armpits.

A crowd of more than 100 people gathered around to watch as he struggled to
wriggle free. Some tried to pull him out, but he was stuck fast.

The unidentified man was eventually rescued by firefighters, after being
laughed at and photographed by morning shoppers in Swansea, south Wales, for
more than two hours.One onlooker, 29-year-old builder Gareth Hughes, said: "He was wedged in
so tight we'd have pulled his arms out of their sockets if we'd pulled any
harder. He was stuck fast, right up to his chest.

"We were all stood around this unfortunate man in the hole having a right
old laugh.

"The man said he'd gone in feet first to retrieve a lighter he'd dropped
in the hole and got stuck.

"God knows how he even managed to squeeze in the hole because it was only
30cm in diameter.

"Once the firemen arrived, they strapped a rope round him, beneath his
armpits, and winched him out."

An ambulance was put on standby to treat the man, but he was pulled out
uninjured.

A spokesman for Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said: "We
received a call saying a male was stuck in a service duct outside a curry
house in Swansea.

"We used a quad pod, which has a winch, to pull him out."

An ambulance was on standby, but the man was uninjured.


It seems a deep hole for a lamp post.

i would be mega impressed if my bot fitted down a hole that size LOL