A 22 year old man from Sydney had to be rescued by firefighters after he became trapped in a washing machine from the waist down at his parent’s house. He was unable to get out of the machine for three hours apparently, and then the actual rescue took another hour once his mum and dad had called the fire brigade to come help him.

Here’s what Bankstown Fire Service had to say about it:

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Upon arrival the crew was informed that the patient’s legs had been entrapped in the washing machine for at least three hours.

This job was interesting as the crew had not performed a washing machine rescue before. However, under direction from station officer David Cross, the crew implemented a plan to extract the patient by disassembling the washing machine.

The washing machine had to be disassembled systematically and stabilisation was placed under the washing drum as the outer mounts of the washing machine were removed.

Once the exterior of the washing machine had been removed firefighters had to cut away the stainless steel drum to remove the patient from the washing drum.

The unnamed guy wasn’t injured but was in mild discomfort from being trapped in a washing machine for four hours, as you probably would be. No explanation was given as to why the hell he was trapped in a washing machine for three hours, other than the fact that he had mild autism, which to be honest sounds like a complete slight on all autistic people in the history of the world as they’re not all going around getting stuck in washing machines are they?

Surely there must have been another reason why a 22 year old man thought it was a good idea to get into this washing machine? Anyone who has any ideas of information about just what the heck he was doing there then hit us up. It’s almost as embarrassing as when this guy got stuck in a washing machine during a game of hide and seek and they had to use lube to ease him out.

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