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London – A student’s Tinder date in the British city of Bristol ended in a bizarre fashion after the woman he met got wedged upside down in a narrow gap between two windows while retrieving her own faeces, according to the student and firefighters who rescued her.
An online account of the events by the woman’s date, Bristol University postgraduate student Liam Smyth, prompted some to ask if it was a hoax.
But Avon Fire and Rescue Service confirmed that it had rescued the woman and backed Smyth’s story.
“It isn’t an urban myth … It is one of those things of reality being stranger than fiction,” said a spokesperson for the fire service.
The date began at a Nando’s restaurant and continued with them watching a film and drinking a bottle of wine at his home.
It took the odd turn after the unidentified woman used the toilet and was unable to flush away her faeces, Smyth wrote on a Gofundme page, set up on Tuesday to ask for donations to repair a broken window.
“She returned with a panicked look in her eye, and told me she had something to tell me,” he said.
To avoid embarrassment, the woman said she had thrown the faeces out of a window, unaware that there was a second window behind it.
“Being an amateur gymnast, she was convinced that she could reach into the window and pull the poo out,” Smyth said.
She did eventually retrieve it with his help, but he was forced to call the fire service after he was unable to pull her out of the gap between the windows. – dpa