California Man Stuck in Toddler Swing for Nine Hours
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A man had to be cut out of a swing. (Photo credit: Getty Images)
A 21-year-old man in Vallejo, Calif., took his friends up on a bet that landed him in the hospital but likely bruised his ego more than anything else.
The man and his friends were in Blue Rock Springs Park at 9 p.m. Friday when he made a $100 bet with his friends that he could fit into a toddler swing, according to the San Francisco Gate.
The friends took him up on the bet and he procured liquid laundry detergent, which he used to rub all over his legs and squeeze into the rigid makeshift diaper.
And, of course, he got stuck.
While the outcome of this doomed-from-the-start bet was not a surprise, what happened next was: His friends left. They didn’t go look for help or for a way to get him out, they simply left.
The man spent the next nine hours trapped in the kiddie swing, until 6 a.m., when a park groundskeeper arrived at the park and heard a man screaming, according to the SFGate.
The worker called the police and the fire department to rescue the man. After assessing the situation, they determined that the best way to get the man out would be to cut the swing off the chains, with the man in it and take him to the hospital, swing and all.
At the hospital, doctors used an orthopedic cast saw to free the man.
No word on $100 wager, his medical expenses or whether he’s still friends with the group that abandoned him.
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Hopefully he will be billed for the damage to the playset also. Vandalism. Idiot. Who wants to put their kid in a swing covered in detergent & nasty man groin sweat? Gross jerk. Glad he got in a bad situation & glad his friends left him. It always surprises me when someone who shows no respect to others or their things demand respect for themselves. Loser.
Posted by: mad playground mom | October 25, 2011, 10:55 am 10:55 am
We have a communist in the White House circumventing the US Constitution and the congress, and this is what ABC calls news? Incredible!
Posted by: Ex Speaker Nan | October 25, 2011, 11:06 am 11:06 am
This is why there is such thing as survival of the fittest, this guy and those like him would die out.
Posted by: MiketheElectrician | October 25, 2011, 11:09 am 11:09 am
HAHAHA, typical people using any excuse to bash the President. I think the guys who circumvented the constitution and international law are in Texas and Wyoming.
Posted by: MiketheElectrician | October 25, 2011, 11:11 am 11:11 am
Lol, I can’t help but wonder what he must have done to deserve this. Nice practical joke, if that’s what it was. The authorities got involved and some parts hurt. Like Kelso would say, “Nice burn!”
Posted by: noonerz | October 25, 2011, 11:21 am 11:21 am
The source you are citing is the San Francisco Chronicle. The website is called SF Gate.
Posted by: Robert Conti | October 25, 2011, 11:24 am 11:24 am
That’s gonna leave a mark…in more ways than one…
Posted by: Swing Low.. | October 25, 2011, 11:39 am 11:39 am
Am I the only one that actually feel kind of sorry for the guy? Come on who didn’t do stupid things at 21?
Posted by: Swinger | October 25, 2011, 12:08 pm 12:08 pm
HAHAHA . . . 2 white guys with too much time on their hands
Posted by: Cecile | October 25, 2011, 12:09 pm 12:09 pm
If that’s the worst thing he does, is make a harmless bet that he can fit into a child’s swing, good for him!! Compared to what others his age and younger are doing, I’d say this falls into the category, of “dumb, but harmless”. Now, as for his friends, they should be hunted down given a good swift kick in the behind!!
Posted by: Lee | October 25, 2011, 12:55 pm 12:55 pm
Serves him right.
Posted by: whatever | October 25, 2011, 1:01 pm 1:01 pm
Exspeakerman was the one that made the political comments, NOT madplaygroundmom. Both you people should lighten up a bit though. Would you have thought this more newsworthy if someone was killed? madmom…are you kidding me? I don’t hear any mention of this kid demanding any respect. Lee…you got it right.
Posted by: ocmarsha | October 25, 2011, 1:10 pm 1:10 pm
i feel sorry for him on several levels.
Posted by: babzc | October 25, 2011, 1:12 pm 1:12 pm
With friends like that, huh???
Posted by: thatwasobvious | October 25, 2011, 1:32 pm 1:32 pm
My guess is that the quality of his friends says quite a bit about his own quality. It’s likely that he would have left with his buddies if someone else had made this stupid mistake, so he probably got exactly what he deserved. But, at least he had 9 hours to think about his choice of friends and his own personal attitude.
Although I doubt it did him any good.
Posted by: AmericaThePitiful | October 25, 2011, 1:51 pm 1:51 pm
wow, this could have ended up on the show “1001 ways to die”…..
Posted by: Razzaq | October 25, 2011, 2:03 pm 2:03 pm
Bwaaaahahaha! It’s a stupid, harmless and eventually embarrassing bet with a lesson attached! I bet he wont try to squeeze a hundred dollars out of his friends again! LOL! In all fairness, they should pay up now, after all he did win the bet. He said he could squeeze into it…didnt say anything about getting back out of it. You know the pictures are all over his friends FB and twitter accounts.
Posted by: Thoughtyouknew | October 25, 2011, 3:02 pm 3:02 pm
HAHAHAHAHAHA; HAHAHAHAHAHA; Now; this is funny; idiot..
Posted by: ATTAGO | October 25, 2011, 3:50 pm 3:50 pm
“he procured liquid laundry detergent”….I’m willing to bet that’s not the only liquid that was procured. Great friends though, I hope they remember what payback is.
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Posted by: Give Me a Break | October 25, 2011, 4:37 pm 4:37 pm
Hey, $100 is good money in this economy! I probably would have grabbed the Dawn, too! lol
Posted by: RN422 | October 25, 2011, 4:48 pm 4:48 pm
That’s why you always carry a knife. He could have thrown it at his friends as they walked away.
Posted by: JK | October 25, 2011, 6:21 pm 6:21 pm
Kidding!!! But seriously the guy ought to reconsider his choice of friends.
Posted by: JK | October 25, 2011, 6:24 pm 6:24 pm
I’ve a feeling that the man madeup the story about the friends/bet because he was embarassed to tell the truth. Some people get turned out by weird stuff and i think that was the case here.
Posted by: annie | October 25, 2011, 11:54 pm 11:54 pm
Alcohol, pot and/or pharmaceuticals HAVE to be involved in this story somewhere!
Posted by: lomita momcat | October 26, 2011, 12:21 am 12:21 am
The comment the guy made on the young man being stuck on a toddler swing is really being an ass why in the world would you wish this young man left on a toddler swing and, then laughing at the fact that his friends left him? I don’t consider this a very nice comment, how would you like it if someone did that to you? maybe you ought to look in the mirrior at your behavior. I would hope that you are grown up enough to see what a nasty comment you made!!!!!!!!
Posted by: cm c | October 26, 2011, 12:32 am 12:32 am
This is a man thing nothing more nothing less.
Posted by: Carol | October 26, 2011, 8:05 pm 8:05 pm
Wow, I new some nut-job would bring Obama into this.
Posted by: Kimberly Sevilla | November 9, 2011, 8:59 am 8:59 am