A little boy put his head through the hole of his plastic seat and became wedged in there

May 9, 2014 17:13 GMT  ·  By
Layton Kennington  put his head through the hole of his plastic seat and became wedged in there
   Layton Kennington put his head through the hole of his plastic seat and became wedged in there

Potty training has proved to be a difficult experience for a Greater Manchester toddler. Layton Kennington's freaked-out mother was forced to call the fire brigade after her son somehow managed to get a plastic potty stuck on his head.

The 18-month-old boy became stuck in the training potty on Tuesday afternoon while he was playing at his home in Bolton, Greater Manchester. Apparently, the playful toddler was left alone just for a moment, but it was just enough for him to put his head through the hole of the plastic seat and become wedged in there.

Layton's worried mother Leanne Urmston tried her best to release her son, but her desperate attempts to squeeze his head out of the hole failed, so she was forced to call for help.

“I was in the kitchen taking a break for potty training and he walked in from the lounge with the potty itself wrapped round his head. I just couldn't get it off, it was so tight below his ears,” Leanne recalls, as reported by the Daily Express.

The boy spent about half an hour with the potty stuck around his neck, and at one point he began panicking and screaming, as the potty seat was cutting into his ears. That's what worried Leanne the most and prompted her to call the emergency service.

“I didn't know what else to do, I can't drive and my baby daughter was asleep upstairs. […] Layton was getting upset and didn't understand what was going on,” the woman adds.

A team of four firefighters arrived at their home and used garden shears to cut through the plastic potty and release the anxious boy. The entire operation didn't take longer than two or three minutes.

“The firefighters were really nice to him. Afterwards we were all laughing but I was in shock for ages. Layton likes Fireman Sam but he was that shaken up - he didn’t see the fire engine,” the mother said after it was all over.

Firefighter Neil Mercer, from Bolton Central Fire Station, said he had never been involved in a similar case in his entire career. Usually small children get their arms or legs stuck in different places, but he had never heard of kids getting their heads wedged in potties.

However, Daily Express says that last year an almost identical incident happened in Bolton, when another toddler called Layton was rescued after getting his head stuck in a child's Mickey Mouse toilet seat.