Trapped in unusual places: Your stories

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Newlyn Fish Festival
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A woman was trapped in a portable toilet at the Newlyn Fish Festival and moved across the festival site while still inside the cubicle. Where have you been trapped?

A portable toilet with a woman inside was accidentally carried across a festival site by a forklift truck. The woman had gone to use the toilet ahead of the opening of the Newlyn Fish Festival in Cornwall.

You have been sharing your stories of the worst places that you have been trapped. Here are a selection of of them.

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@Vivienne17 tweets, external about getting stuck in a loo during a train journey.

@Vivienne17 tweets: I was stuck in a loo on an intercity train between Euston and Liverpool. Lock fell out! Used scissors to prise openImage source, @Vivienne17
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@Dennis99 was rescued, external by the fire brigade after he got stuck.

@Dennis99 tweets: Locked myself in the bathroom when I was 5 (52 years ago), mum had to call the fire brigade to release me!Image source, @Denniss99
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In Northamptonshire, a cow managed to get its head stuck through a plastic garden chair. The cow managed to extricate itself from the chair without assistance.

Cow with head stuck in garden chairImage source, Northants Fire Service
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It is not known how the garden chair came to be in the field

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Who can forget David Willis, who was accidentally locked in a Waterstones bookshop. We wonder what happened to him?

David Willis's tweets: Hi @Waterstones I've been locked inside of your Trafalgar Square bookstore for 2 hours now. Please let me out.Image source, @DWill_
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And finally, who can forget the Mayor of London Boris Johnson being trapped on a zip wire after it became stuck during an Olympic event in 2012?

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Boris Johnson shouted "gold medal" while dangling on a zip wire for several minutes. Video: Laura Mullane

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A lot of you seem to be getting stuck in toilets! Surely there are some other unusual places you can share with us? Share your experiences in the following ways:

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