‘Life and death’: firefighters free drunk Chinese women from padlocked iron neck chain after they throw key down toilet
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Two women in eastern China had to call firefighters after padlocking their necks together and throwing the key down a toilet during a drinking game made popular via Chinese social media.
The unidentified women in their twenties, from Zhejiang province, sparked a public outcry after chaining themselves together during the game called “life and death”, The Paper reported.
Last Friday, a fire station in Hangzhou received a report of two women in difficulty in a restaurant having “lost” the key to a padlocked chain they had placed around their necks, after one of them threw it into a toilet.
After a frantic but fruitless search for the key, firefighters had to use bolt cutters to break the chain.
A video of the incident shows a firefighter holding the two women as a colleague uses bolt cutters to free the pair.
After arriving at the restaurant from a nearby bar the women ordered an iron chain and lock through an online delivery service, then asked a customer sitting next to them to lock the chain around their necks.
One of the firefighters said: “We discovered later that the two girls had asked a male stranger at the next table to lock their necks with iron chains.”