Have a Seat II
When the groundskeeper of a public park in Vallejo, Calif., arrived for work at 6:00 a.m., he heard a man screaming for help. The groundskeeper called police, who found a 21-year-old man trapped in a swing set. The unnamed man explained that he made a $100 “bet” with friends that he could fit into the child’s-size swing, but once he got his legs through the two holes in the seat, he found himself trapped. The friends, he said, fled — leaving him stuck for nine hours. Firefighters cut the chains on the swing and took the man to a hospital, where the seat was cut off his legs. “He sustained non-life threatening injuries,” the report concludes. (RC/Vallejo Times-Herald) ...But permanent psychic injuries.Original Publication Date: 13 November 2011
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 18.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 18.
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