Teenager gets stuck in washing machine
A five foot 10 inch teenager who dropped his keys in a washing machine and climbed in to retrieve them has been freed by a fire crew.
The 15-year-old Norwegian boy, from Baerum near Oslo, had been curled up in the drum for more than an hour when firefighters were alerted.
Stein Guriby, of the Asker and Baerum Fire Department, said the large washing machine had a horizontal drum that was just big enough for him to climb into.
Guriby said that when firefighters got there, the boy, whose name has not been released, was getting desperate.
"We had to do something," he added.
The firefighters tried everything they could think of, without success, until they tried lubricating the boy with washing up liquid.
Then they moved him around until he could slip out of the drum. They said the teenager emerged uninjured.
Story filed: 15:15 Friday 5th September 2003
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