"It was a dare." It took 22 German firefighters to rescue an American exchange student who got himself stuck leg-first inside a giant vagina sculpture. It was supposed to be a funny photo. Instead, it became a full-body lesson in poor decision-making and violating public art.

A total of 22 rescue workers with special equipment were deployed to the scene in the southern Germany city of Tuebingen on Friday to free the 20-year-old but a "forceps delivery was not necessary," local newspaper Schwaebisches Tagblatt noted. "We were able to pull the victim out with our bare hands after about 30 minutes," Mozer added. The six-foot replica of female genitalia was installed 13 years ago outside the microbiology and virology department of the city's university clinic. It is worth nearly $200,000.

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