It’s only an Earbud
Millions of Germans and Americans do this kind of thing every day and never make the “quip4 today.” “Hans” was riding on his regular commuter train to work and reached down to the floor to pick up his ear bud that had dropped out from the bouncing of that train. He saw his earpiece fell between the foot of the seat and the outside wall of the train car. Logically Hans reached through the opening in the armrest down to the floor to pick up the little gizmo. He could not quite reach it, so he pushed his arm deeper into the tight space between the seat and the train wall. As much as he pushed and squirmed he just could not get the little piece of plastic into his up fingers, so he pushed harder and farther into the crack. Now he was determined to get this little annoyance picked up to avoid the stares of his fellow riders.
Firefighters responded to the Lehrte train station in Lower Saxony on Friday around 10:10 p.m. local time. Upon arrival, they found a man on a Westfalenbahn train traveling toward Braunschweig had his hand trapped under an armrest, behind the seat, in the side paneling, and was unable to free himself. The agency noted that what at first appeared to be a fairly easy rescue turned out to be a complex operation because the passenger’s hand was so swollen that using simple equipment they could not pull his arm back out without damaging him. Hans of course was mortified because he was bent over in his seat surrounded by firemen since the train crew were afraid to pull his arm or open the panels of the train car.
It got worse as the firemen began to take the seat apart as well as the luggage rack and other fixtures on the lower part of the seats in the rail car. Since the train had stopped to get his trapped arm out the gawkers and phone recorders were outside Han’s window making him national laughingstock. None of this attention helped the firemen or poor embarrassed Hans. So the Firmen duct- taped an aluminized fire blanket across the windows of the car so they could work in peace. Police were also called to the scene because of what the fire department described as “unpleasant scenes” involving onlookers.
Finally the boys went back to the truck and brought in the hydraulic spreader they use to pry people out of car wrecks to separate the arm rest from the seat frame and the wall after about an hour and a half,” the fire department report said. Hans got a trip to the ER his condition remains unknown at this time. Meanwhile, officials noted the AirPods were ultimately recovered. Because the operation extended over an extended period of time, the train crew evacuated the train and a replacement train was deployed toward Braunschweig,” officials said. 11 firefighters and two fire vehicles were used in the operation.
Funny Lost stuff
As the man of the house walked in from work his wife approached with a worried look and asked, “George, I am afraid that diamond ring I bought that was a little too big on me somehow worked its way off my finger and now I can’t find it anywhere.” The husband replied, “Don’t worry dear. I found it in my pants pocket this morning at work.”
As a resident advisor in my dormitory at San Diego State University I was often called upon to unlock doors when keys were lost or forgotten or it one night and was awakened from a deep sleep by a student who was locked out of her room. I grabbed the master key, shuffled down the hall and opened her door. There was the student’s roommate asleep in bed. “Your roommate is right here,” I said. “She could’ve let you in.” “Well, yeah,” said the student. “But I really didn’t want to wake her up.”
My friend hit it big in Las Vegas. He drove there in an $80,000 car,
but came home in $100,000 …Greyhound bus.
The policeman late at night stopped a man walking down the street wearing a barrel. The cop asked, “are you a poker player?”
“No,” the man replied, “but I just left some fellows who are.”
June 11th Birthdays
1945 – Adrien Barbeau, 1999 – Saxon Sharpino, 2000 – Kaitlyn Nacon, 1989 – Maya Moore
1933 – Gene Wilder, 1911 – Jacques Cousteau, 1960 – Hugh Laurie, 1960 – Dr. Mehmet Oz,