Firefighters free man stuck in train armrest looking for dropped Airpod

Firefighters successful Germany had to usage hydraulic instrumentality to free a man who sewage stuck nether a train armrest while searching for a dropped AirPod.

Emergency services were called to Lehrte position successful north-central Germany connected Friday evening pursuing reports that a rider was trapped, nan section occurrence section said successful a connection published Saturday.

"What initially looked for illustration a reasonably elemental rescue past developed into a analyzable rescue operation, however, arsenic nan person's manus had swollen truthful overmuch successful nan meantime that it could nary longer beryllium freed utilizing elemental rescue equipment," it said.

Firefighters had to dismantle a luggage rack and seats, past saw done nan armrest earlier utilizing hydraulic instrumentality to free nan man, who was stuck for astir an hr and half successful total, it added.

"The injured personification was past handed complete to nan emergency services together pinch his AirPods, which had besides been rescued," said nan occurrence department, which noted that a full of 11 firefighters and 2 vehicles were utilized successful nan operation.

Police were besides called to nan segment because of what nan occurrence section described arsenic "unpleasant scenes" involving onlookers.

"In bid to forestall nan gawkers from taking pictures of nan trapped personification pinch their mobile phones, nan cognition area was not only cordoned disconnected complete a wide area, but nan nonstop position was blocked by a rescue broad attached to nan extracurricular of nan train," nan section said.

Because of nan magnitude of clip taken to free nan man, nan train was evacuated and a replacement work took nan remaining passengers connected their onward journey, it added.