YouTuber cements head in microwave

In what was either an attempt at a dangerous stunt to generate views or a simple cooking mishap, a blogger on video sharing website YouTube had to be freed by emergency services after cementing his head in a microwave.

The 22-year-old, known by his username TGFbro, had been “trying to make a mould of his head in the bizarre stunt”, the Daily Mirror writes.

However, the Polyfilla mixture set faster than expected, and he became trapped in the oven. For more than 90 minutes, his friends tried to free him, feed air into his mouth via a tube to keep him from suffocating.

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Firefighters were called, but after an hour they too admitted defeat, the Birmingham Mail reports, and were forced to contact colleagues from Technical Rescue for specialist advice.

Watch Commander Shaun Dakin, who responded to the incident, said: “As funny as this sounds, this young man could quite easily have suffocated or have been seriously injured.

“He and a group of friends had mixed seven bags of Polyfilla which they then poured around his head, which was protected by a plastic bag inside the microwave.

“He was very relieved when we removed a large chunk of the Polyfilla with a screwdriver, allowing him to breathe more easily. But we had to be extremely careful with the screwdriver, working so closely to his head.

“It took us nearly an hour to free him. All of the group involved were very apologetic, but this was clearly a call-out which might have prevented us from helping someone else in genuine, accidental need.”