A crew of Connecticut firefighters dedicated their Saturday afternoon to prying a grown man out of a children’s slide at a local playground after he got trapped inside the hot tube.

The 40-year-old man, who wasn’t identified, became stuck inside the enclosed slide at an elementary school in Vernon at around 4:30 p.m., the town’s fire department said. 4

The playground prisoner got “wedged feet and head first” about halfway down the slide — after apparently folding himself forward in an attempt to shimmy down the slide, fire officials said.

It’s unclear if he was at the playground with anyone else or decided to take a ride down the twisting tube slide on his own. 4

First responders rushed to the scene, but quickly realized they would need backup once they determined the only wa

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