Oct 18, 2007 10:46 am US/Mountain
Man Gets Finger Stuck In Picnic Table In Lafayette
(AP) LAFAYETTE, Colo. A little goofing off during a break from work led to a time-consuming, embarrassing ordeal for a Wal-Mart employee in Lafayette.
Authorities said the man got his right index finger stuck in an oval-shaped hole of a wrought-iron picnic table outside the store.
Co-workers tried in vain to help the man get free before help was summoned. A half-dozen firefighters and emergency workers responded.
They freed the man by cutting a square out of the tabletop, then slicing through the metal around his finger.
Lafayette Fire Department Assistant Chief David Friedel said the unidentified man was OK, except for being upset, shaking and embarrassed about the ordeal.
Friedel says the man told him it was an act of “stupidity.”
The man’s name was not released.
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