When an ambulance brought Daniel Webb home from the hospital after he hurt his knee in March, paramedics warned the then 550-pound man he probably wouldn't be able to get up from his recliner if they put him there, his wife said.
Topeka police said a man who was trying to rob a discount cigarette store got stuck in a vent and had to be rescued by firefighters. Police said the man was stuck in a ventilation pipe for about three hours early Thursday. He eventually managed to call his daughter, who called 911.
A West Virginia man is dead after his motorized scooter became stuck on railroad tracks and he was hit by a freight train.
A Gulf coast raccoon has a sheriff's deputy to thank for helping him out of a sticky situation. The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office was alerted to the distressed critter Wednesday morning. A fitness instructor reported seeing the raccoon with his head stuck in a jar at a Palm Harbor elementary school parking lot, about 25 miles north of St. Petersburg.
Rescue crews have removed the last person stranded on a roller coaster ride at the Great America Theme Park in Santa Clara.
Allegiant Air says the nose gear of one of its planes ran off a taxi-way at the Fort Collins-Loveland Municipal Airport, but none of the 145 passengers and crew was injured.
Outsourcing partnerships are built on trust, so when Satyam Computer Services Ltd. copped to inflating its books by $1 billion, its customers — some of the world's biggest companies — were burned.
Talk about deep cleaning. An woman was recovering after spending more than a day lodged inside a vent at her home after falling in while vacuuming it. Ogden police Lt. Scott Sangberg said they came to the 55-year-old woman's house after family members called police to say they hadn't heard from her in more than a day.
A Wisconsin radio station had to make two contestants an offer they couldn't refuse in order to get them to quit a game to win a new car.
Chalupa the Chihuahua may understandably be a little bath shy in the future. The tiny dog created a big fuss when one of her rear paws got stuck in a kitchen sink drain at her owner's Homer City home Sunday night.
It wasn't the preferred way to enter the Knoxville Museum of Art, but Richard Anthony Smith told police he was on a mission. The 25-year-old Knoxville man called 911 from his cell phone before dawn Wednesday saying he was trapped in an air conditioning duct leading from the museum roof, Knoxville police spokesman Darrell DeBusk said.
Authorities in Ohio say a man who was locked out of his apartment tried to climb through a window, got stuck and suffocated.
Three boys are doing fine after spending 40 terrifying minutes locked in a gun safe at a sporting goods store in Salt Lake City.
Nathan Miller learned the hard way that "Road Closed" signs are posted for a reason. The 25-year-old Milesburg man ventured onto a closed road Sunday afternoon in search of good fishing at Bald Eagle State Park, but got his pickup truck stranded on some railroad tracks.
A suspected thief trying to steal $10 worth of copper got himself into a stinky situation when he was trapped under a trash bin at a county landfill for 12 hours, sheriff's deputies said.
Dozens of Bronx Zoo sightseers were rescued unharmed after being stuck in cable cars 100 feet above zoo animals for five hours, authorities said.
Rescue crews had to cut apart a portable toilet to rescue a man who got stuck naked inside the potty. Authorities say the 31-year-old man used his cell phone to call 911 on Sunday from inside a portable toilet.
A time-lapse video of a man trapped in an elevator for 41 hours has become something of an Internet sensation after surveillance camera footage emerged after nearly a decade.
An Irish woman who crossed a breached border into Gaza with her daughter said Wednesday that border guards were preventing them from returning to Egypt.
A train stuck overnight in the Northern California mountains resumed its journey Saturday after a snow plow that was blocking the tracks was removed, officials said.
An Ohio University student thought she had a plan for rescuing her dog from an icy pond but then got the two of them stranded in a canoe.
Two cleaning women, trapped inside a broken elevator for two days, survived on two cough drops and six aspirin until they were rescued. Beata Bartoszewicz and her mother, Roma Borowski, entered an elevator in an empty building in this Chicago suburb on Dec. 22. After the elevator doors closed, the women discovered they were stuck on the first floor of the two-story building.
A teenager worried about coming in past curfew did his best Santa Claus and headed down the chimney.
An American Eagle airliner carrying 59 passengers ran off a taxiway at Little Rock National Airport and became mired in mud, but no one was injured, airport officials said.
A suspected thief trying to help himself to convenience store goods instead wound up crying for help after becoming stuck in an air shaft for 10 hours.
THE driver of a runaway car stuck on cruise control on the Eastern Freeway and EastLink in Melbourne at 100km/h was convinced he was going to die.
Rudolph had a shiny nose. Eskimo the bullied reindeer didn't. He had something altogether more embarrassing, which stopped his antlers from growing.
PASADENA, California - A faulty wheel on the Mars rover Spirit is complicating efforts to free it from a sand trap where it has been stuck for the past eight months. Nasa says it will continue to run tests to see if there's any movement in the right rear wheel
A Chinese student appears to have been the butt of a somewhat strange prank following a nasty incident with a remote control.
Emergency crews freed a boy from a chimney Thursday morning after he became stuck inside it. Clifton Washington said his wife heard someone screaming for help at about 8 a.m
A choir-singing pensioner trapped in a hospital toilet was freed after singing the chorus to his favourite song, Handel's Hallelujah.
If John Jones finds himself sitting at a dinner table on Thursday, he will have a lot more than most of us to be thankful about since, at last check, he was stuck in an upside down position in a Utah cave where he has been since Tuesday evening.
A Romanian man who tried to climb through a tiny supermarket window became stuck for 11 hours with his pants down.
Fourteen people rescued by the fire brigade after being left dangling upside down from a Berlin fairground ride last summer for nearly an hour have been slapped with a hefty bill, a spokesman said Monday.
A rescue attempt is being planned for Ilya, a Florida manatee stuck near an oil refinery in New Jersey where plunging temperatures and a lack of food are endangering his life.
A skunk in Oklahoma who got his head stuck in a jar of peanut butter was rescued with the help of a passer-by and a man known as the "skunk whisperer."
Emergency responders said a 15-year-old boy had to be pulled from mud that was up to his waist, after a mud-bogging experience gone bad in Lu
A DOPEY reveller had to be rescued by fire crews after throwing herself down a 60ft builder's rubbish chute - and getting stuck halfway.
Contractors tried to move Cunningham Hall across campus early this morning, but the building didn't make it. They were taking it up a hill next to Meany Hall, but the truck hauling the building didn't have enough power for the job and the building got stuck in place.
The driver of an 18-wheeler was heading from Arkansas to Florida when his trip came to a sudden halt. That's because he tried to fit his tractor trailer through the Bankhead Tunnel. Traffic was detoured for hours as a result.
A teenager who tried to steal Janet Hooley's car on August 11, 2009 got stuck and got caught.
The incident happened when the elephant was out in the street, walking with his owner in Rayong province, eastern Thailand, before it lost its footing.
Just a week after a young boy died suddenly in a roller coaster at the German-American fest in Berlin, 15 people at the fair were trapped upside-down for 45 minutes when another ride got stuck.
As some of you already know I got fired on Wednesday, and now I am pondering my options, I mean I have to, right, what would happen if I just sit on my butt and not do a thing, surely my rent will not get paid, or my groceries would not get bought, my daughter would not get her s …
A man who came to the aid of his neighbour a week after she became trapped in her toilet says he wishes he could have helped sooner.
An inebriated man who fell asleep by the side of a street in the German city of Bochum awoke to find himself wedged up to the waist in a manhole. How he got there remains a mystery.
A chihuahua puppy called Smokey survived after spending three days with a barbecue fork stuck in its brain.
A WYFF photographer runs across an odd site at Furman University. Don't worry, he later helped the critter out.
A WOMAN suffering from a deadly heart condition got two shocks when she was struck by lightning - after it cured her illness. Nada Acimovich, 51, was battling arrhythmia — an irregular heartbeat that can be a killer — before she was zapped.
An overheating hippo was so desperate to cool down that he climbed over the side of a 3m (10ft) water tower for a nice long soak.