AN 82-year-old man was left red-faced when he had to call out the fire service after he became stuck in a collapsed deckchair.
Des has now recovered from the embarrassing incident [SWNS.COM]Des Badcock was enjoying an ice cream in his garden when the chair’s canvas seat gave way and he fell through it – leaving his feet poking up in the air.
It took two firefighters 20 minutes to haul the grandad-of-seven out of the chair. Apart from bruised pride the widower was unhurt.
He said: “I was just sitting out in the garden in my deckchair after having an ice cream.
“All of a sudden I went down and the chair was broken. I fell right through the chair and could not get out. My feet were suspended in the air.
“I live alone and the neighbours weren’t in. No matter what I did I couldn’t get any purchase. I was there for half an hour.
“I thought ‘what am I going to do? I’m going to have to phone the fire brigade.
“I couldn’t stay there much longer because I was starting to get sunburn. If I’d stuck around I would’ve been frazzled.
“The firefighters said to me ‘are you injured?’ I said ‘no, I’m just embarrassed’.
“Luckily the neighbours didn’t see because they were at work.” Mr Badcock, from Taunton, Somerset, who works part time at Lidl was not deterred from sunbathing and was back out in the garden yesterday – in a different deckchair.
Taunton fire service commander Bill Williams, said: “I can’t think of a time I’ve ever been called out to something like this, but we do have cutting equipment that works on wooden deckchairs as well as hydraulic tools for metal ones.”
Each summer hospital Accident and Emergency wards report a rash of deckchair-related injuries – with foreigners coming off worst as they tackle the unfamiliar furniture.
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents estimates 4,500 people are hospitalised by garden seats, deckchairs and benches every year.
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