Dangerous Liaisons With Inanimate Objects

An unnamed man decorating his bathroom in Mattaincourt near Épinal, in eastern France slipped, and somehow got his head stuck in his stepladder, trapped between two rungs ...

Contact With Inanimate Objects Can Go Very Wrong .....

.... the man, in his 60s, was reportedly still conscious when the medics turned up, after his sister had found him.

Accidents Do Happen

Filed under the "Strange But True" drawer was a story from Tokyo, Japan. An unnamed woman but apparently aged in her 30's, somehow fell down a 8 inch (20 cm) gap between a train and the platform, and was trapped at JR Minami-Urawa rail station, just north of Tokyo in July 2013.  A public announcement that a passenger was trapped was relayed across the station.

Passenger Squeeze Measures Reached New Heights In Tokyo

This prompted about 40 people to join with train officials, to attempt to push the 32-ton train carriage to one side, and free the woman.