Bare bums, blunders and breadless wonders
20.05.12
The following month, a South Canterbury man was left red-faced when he become trapped in a clothes dryer while trying to retrieve clothes.
Dave Chapman, 42, had been drinking with friends at a house near Timaru on June 18 when he went to the dryer to find a pair of undies.
With his lower half naked, he manoeuvred his head, shoulders and arms into the dryer while searching for the underwear, and became stuck.
A panicking Mr Chapman was in an agitated state by the time an ambulance, a police officer, and two fire trucks arrived - a situation made worse by the fact he was exposing his nether regions to the world.
"I don't know what flaming possessed me to get in it. I was trying to find these undies when everything just got stuck," he was reported as saying.
Said firefighter Rooy Hoogenraad: "We do entrapments ... This would be one of the more unusual entrapments."
Other people got different body parts stuck in places, leading to more headlines.
Source: New Zealand Herald