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Critical mistake! Firefighters rescue mother who couldn’t ‘turn around’ as she tried to slide a couch up stairs and got trapped under it for THREE hours
- A mother was rescued after being trapped under a sofa for three hours
- Melissa, 53, was moving the couch with the help of her partner, Todd, 55
- Her daughter Claire, 23, tried to help her mother before filming it
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A mother had to be rescued by firefighters after being trapped under a couch in her basement for three hours in a scene reminiscent of the TV show Friends.
Melissa, 53, of Columbus, Ohio, was moving the couch with the help of her partner, Todd, 55, when it got stuck.
Daughter Claire, 23, found her mother trapped on the wrong side of the couch and tried to help before giving up and decided to film it instead.
Hilarious footage shows the bench covering the basement entrance and Melissa’s hand poking out of a small gap between the bench and the stairwell.
Claire posted the video to TikTok and it quickly went viral, with 13 million views since it was posted.
Her new viewers flooded the commentary sections with references to the famous episode of the sitcom Friends, in which Ross tries unsuccessfully to move a couch.
A mother was trapped under a couch for three hours in a scene that could have come straight out of a TV show
Claire, 23, (pictured) filmed as her mother Melissa, 53, tried to maneuver the sofa with her partner Todd, 55
Todd, manager of an energy company, accidentally punched a hole in the wall to get the couch in the basement, but to no avail
Comments on TikTok read: ‘911, we weren’t spinning’ and ‘Pivot! hinge! pivot!, in fact she did, not pivot’.
Melissa, a kindergarten teacher, was trapped in the basement for nearly three hours while Claire and Todd tried to remove a railing from the wall in hopes of freeing her.
Todd, a power company manager, even punched a hole in the wall to get the couch into the basement, but to no avail.
In the end, the family had to call the fire brigade.
The couch got stuck as the couple tried to get it down the stairs to their basement, much to their daughter’s horror
The family thought about cutting into the sofa with a saw, but decided to call the fire brigade instead
The fire brigade was able to successfully remove the railing from the wall by squeezing through the hole.
Claire, a law student, said, “I thought it was hilarious. My parents didn’t think it was funny.
“My father was angry about the damage and my mother thought she would never get out of it.
They came with their flashing blue lights to rescue the woman trapped under the couch
In any case, firefighters from Columbus, Ohio, helped Melissa escape from the clutches of the couch stuck on the stairs.
“When the fire brigade arrived, I really tried to empathize with the situation because I have a twin sister and I wanted to film it for her.”
Speaking of the minor damage, she said, “I don’t think it should be expensive to repair.
‘In retrospect, my mother thought it was very funny. We laughed about it afterwards.
“This was certainly not your typical evening at my house. But there is certainly a lot of chaos and craziness.’