Pull my finger: A gas story from California. Firefighters in Vallejo make an unusual rescue and prove they are a “full service” department.

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Actually it’s gasoline we are writing about and we sort of stole the headline from KNTV-TV’s story. The original story on this one is by Rachel Raskin Zhiren from the Vallejo Times-Herald (where we borrowed the other part of the headline). It involves a man who appears to have been trying to syphon gasoline from his former girlfriend’s car.

Removing the cap and using his finger to fully open the fill point his finger became stuck. The more he tried to remove it, the more it cut into his fingers.

Firefighters couldn’t find an easy way at the scene to free the man with all of his digits still attached. According to the article, it was the car belonging to his ex that instead lost something in the process:

… so firefighters used air tools to cut that part of the gas tank off and take it — and the man — to the fire station, where the metal pipe-like piece was finally removed with the help of lots of ice cubes, a vice and a heavy-duty electric saw.

How many out there think pride alone probably had the guy thinking at least once or twice before calling for help, if I only had a knife I’d be willing to sacrifice the finger? Just a thought.