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Toddler gets head stuck in portable potty

Firefighters have to cut potty off 2 year old’s head

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Posted: 17 July 2009
by Sara Mackenzie


Toddler Alana O’Connor got her portable potty stuck on her head while she was out shopping with her mum in Mossley, Greater Manchester. Two-year-old Alana has just started potty training and mum Shelley had brought the portable potty with her – in case of accidents.

But as Shelley was paying at the Co-op checkout she heard her daughter start yelling. “I turned round and the potty was stuck on her head,” Shelley told the Tameside Advertiser. “I tried to pull it off, but got nowhere, so then I tried to pull it down, but it got lodged on her shoulders. I was going to take her to accident and emergency, but the checkout woman said I should take her to the fire station. I carried her over and pressed the bell and one of the firemen came out with a big smile on his face. We went in and about six of them gathered round while he cut it off."

Alana says she has learned the lesson and promised not to do it again. Meanwhile mum Shelley is now calling her “Princess  Potty”. Something to bring up in a few years’ time when Alana brings her first boyfriend home, no doubt.

Has your toddler ever got stuck in something? Let us know below…


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So what do you think?

x.Laura.x

lol!

jacks got his hand stuck in a shapesorter i just greased it up and managed to wriggle it through. took a while but i avoid a+e at all costs, too long sitting around.

 when i was in middle school i got a lab stool stuck over my head, (class clown was a bit stupid) hurt like hell having it yanked off.

About 3 years ago
theoldwomanwholivesinashoe

We frequently have  arms/legs between the bars at the back of our wooden chairs.They're wider at the top so they get them in their but somehow they never remember they'll get stuck.Usually manage to get them out ,Arwen did it Mother's Day.I had to cover her foot in Fairy liquid,rather spoilt my lie in.

Someone had their foot stuck in the toilet,think that was Arwen again because of how she climbs on it.

Bridie got a toy train stuck in her hair.

Oh Arwen again,stuck in the dollies highchair.

About 3 years ago
x.Laura.x

ouch i feel the pain there, my cousin rode a battery thomas over my head didnt get stuck but pulled it nasty, poor thing, do i dare ask how?

arwens a serial offender then lol!

About 3 years ago
theoldwomanwholivesinashoe

Bridie put the Happyland battery train in her hair,don't know why.Had to cut it out .Daddy was babysitting.

When Arwen got  her foot stuck in the back of the chair  guess who was in charge again.

Guess who had to come to the rescue.

About 3 years ago
x.Laura.x
sounds about right, my mum was watching jack when his hand got stuck, she thought he was passing her the shapesorter and as i walked into the room dragged him over! About 3 years ago
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