Now that’s what we call a sticky situation.
A 28-year old woman in the UK was stuck to her front door for nearly four hours after anonymous pranksters covered her door handle in superglue.
Fiona Crabb, from Oldham, near Manchester, was out visiting a friend and got a nasty surprise when she got her hand stuck to the handle of the front door on her return.
She did manage to open the door and alert her partner Tony to her rather sticky predicament, but was unable to free herself, nor were several of her neighbours who called around to help.
Fiona and Tony were forced to call on the emergency services, who couldn’t free Fiona from the door handle despite using lubricants, oil and even coke in a bid to set her free.
Eventually, they had to saw off the door handle and Fiona’s hand was eventually freed by hospital staff, who used a special solution to dissolve the glue.
Fiona was left with burns across her hand as a result and now has to apply vegetable oil to her hand at night and wear a plastic glove to keep the skin moist and let her hand heal.
The people responsible for the prank haven’t been identified, but Fiona did spot two teenagers running away from the block of flats where she lived shortly before she tried to enter the house.
“I got home after spending the evening with my friend who lives nearby and was confused when I realised the door handle was sticky,” Fiona is quoted as saying in the Telegraph.
“When the paramedics arrived, they tried so many things to get me free,” she added.
“They used Coca Cola, WD-40, Fairy Liquid, hot water and vegetable oil but nothing was working. I started to get really scared, the longer I was glued on.”
“I’ve been in the flat for just over a year but never had a trouble before. I do feel safe where I live but I’ll be checking the handle every time I come home! I think it was just strangers playing a prank, but I would be really angry if I found out it was someone I knew.”
As for identifying the perpetators of the prank for now, however, Fiona doesn’t have a glue.
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