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Firefighters free nut from boy's finger

7:58am Monday 6th September 2010 in


A seven-year-old boy spent four hours with a nut stuck on his finger.

The youngster was only freed after firefighters were called to accident and emergency at Worthing Hospital to free the plumbing tool from his hand.

The drama took place yesterday. A Worthing firefighter said: “We were contacted by the hospital because they couldn’t get the nut off.

“The lad had been playing in his garden when he picked up the nut and shoved it on. But he couldn’t get it off again.

“It had been stuck for four hours by the time we arrived. I think he thought it was going to be there forever.

“He was a really good boy and didn’t cry.

“I think he might have been resigned to his fate.”

Comments(11)

Tammy Flugh says...
8:20am Mon 6 Sep 10

"to free to plumbing tool from his hand. "
Sub-editor!

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HoldenCaulfield says...
9:51am Mon 6 Sep 10

'Boy gets finger stuck temporarily'. Is this seriously what passes for drama these days? Or has the dark art of churnalism finally triumphed? I think I'll stick to the Framley Examiner from now on. At least it's funny.

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Jo Wadsworth says...
11:18am Mon 6 Sep 10

Thanks for pointing that out Tammy - it has now been corrected.

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acoustic says...
11:47am Mon 6 Sep 10

Since when has a 'nut' been a plumbing tool then? Anyway, it could only have been finger tight!

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MantaRay1 says...
12:45pm Mon 6 Sep 10

acoustic wrote:
Since when has a 'nut' been a plumbing tool then? Anyway, it could only have been finger tight!
It may have been a plumbing accessory that incorporates a nut, a conex fitting or something like that.

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Bubs says...
2:42pm Mon 6 Sep 10

Just another pedantic detail, but surely the the finger was freed from the the nut, not the other way around. Not a great news story though...

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Grumpygit says...
6:46pm Mon 6 Sep 10

I’ve lost my thread now, was he left-handed and is his dad is a colonel …joking!

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james_xx1 says...
7:27pm Mon 6 Sep 10

In Brighton I would have thought it a common occurrence for fingers to get caught in nuts?

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MantaRay1 says...
9:19pm Mon 6 Sep 10

I expect the fire brigade were called as the nut involved might have been dry roasted.

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Al Bion says...
9:13am Tue 7 Sep 10

I hope no-one in the Fire Service was a-salted while the nut was being removed.

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Facts of Life says...
1:21pm Tue 7 Sep 10

I think you will find he had his finger stuck 'in' a nut... A big difference..although
, obviously not to Anna Roberts the 'Reporter'

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