Trapped in a Clothes Horse
Might have been one of the incidents.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-15842559
The London Fire Brigade is asking the public to be a bit more careful around letterboxes, shredders and tambourines as it issues a breakdown of 417 incidents where it was obliged to "release people, or body parts, which had become trapped in objects or machinery". The list of last year's mishaps features "a woman with her foot …
Was it a slow day on the Daily Mail boards today, so you came to visit El Reg?
Of course the fire brigade never go anywhere unless there is a fire in your little world, and making those responsible pay won't knock up insurance premiums and cost everyone more in the long run once shareholders take their profits as well, will it?
If it's causing that much of an issue, maybe there's a case for a specialist "extracting (bits of) people from stupid places" team, so it doesn't take fire engines and people away from actually fighting fires.
It averages out at just over one incident per day (assuming that is 417 in a year), so 3 blokes in a Transit could probably handle the lot.