A nude drunk man who got stuck trying to climb in a clothes dryer says he can't explain what made him do it.
Dave Chapman said he staretd looking for a pair of underpants in his dryer after deciding to change his clothes following a drinking session with friends.
He said: "By that time, I'd had a fair bit to drink; I don't know what flaming possessed me to get in it.
"I was trying to find these undies when everything just got stuck."
Mr Chapman, from Waipopo, near Timaru, New Zealand, who was nude below the waist, managed to fit his head, shoulders and arms into the dryer in his search.
"I thought my undies were there, but obviously not," he told the Timaru Herald.
He managed to get himself wedged in the 30cm-wide opening of the hot, recently used dryer up to his armpits.
He said: "I was panicking because there was no air."
The situation got even worse when the dryer, fell to the floor, on top of him.
Still fully exposed - it took his friends, ambulance staff, a police officer and the Washdyke and Temuka fire brigades to free Mr Chapman.
Parts had to be taken off the dryer and Mr Chapman lifted horizontally and then pulled from the dryer.
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