DOGGY DOOR DILEMMA
HALF-NAKED MAN GETS STUCK
IN NOTHING but his undies and a singlet, an Ingham burger flipper made the unfortunate decision to crawl through a doggy door after being locked out of his house.
He became stuck, kicking off an hour-long ordeal that involved emergency services.
Rylie Crosbie, 19, saw the funny side of it on Monday.
Speaking at his two-storey Macknade home, he said it wasn’t the first time he used the door.
“I put both my hands through and got stuck underneath both my shoulder blades,” said Mr Crosbie, originally from Townsville.
“The bottom plastic dug in underneath my right shoulder blade; I couldn’t move backwards or forwards because it was digging into my skin.”
Mr Crosbie said he had put his phone through the pet door first and was able to call triple-0. Halifax Police, two fire engines and paramedics from Ingham responded.
In a cruel twist of fate, friend Porsche Rose Lynch arrived and entered through the unlocked front door.
A bemused Ms Lynch said she supplied Mr Crosbie with pillows to ease his discomfort.
“I called my brother on Facetime and we all had a bit of a laugh together,” she said.
Mr Crosbie said he had used the pet door three days earlier after forgetting his keys, but went in feet first.
Asked why he had changed technique, he said: “It was easy the first time.”
Police Senior Sergeant Gio Tantalo said it was an unusual callout: “I have seen people trapped ... generally in motor vehicles, not house doors.”