Man who became stuck in ventilation shaft while following the smell of soup rescued

An intoxicated Russian man suffered the indignity of having his naked backside exposed by firemen after they broke a hole into a wall to try and rescue him from a ventilation shaft. Unfortunately for 31-year-old Ivan Ozerov, as he was crawling headfirst down the shaft apparently following the smell of soup, his trousers had started to come off and eventually wedged around his ankles.



Unable to move properly in the tiny 40 centimetre wide ventilation shaft, he had started calling for help and eventually firemen were able to trace his location, and started to break through the wall. And the first thing to appear through the hole in the wall was the man's backside.



As chunks of brick and masonry fell from the ever widening hole, finally his legs were exposed allowing firemen to pull him free. The incident happened on a property in the city of Barnaul, in south-central Russia’s Altai Krai region, after the man had crawled into the shaft of the 10th floor building apparently saying that he was following the smell of soup coming from inside.


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The head of the rescue team Vladimir Prisyazhnykh said: "The shaft width is about 40 centimetres (15 inches). This size corresponds to a 14-year-old, but is not suitable for an adult." The man who was pulled initially claimed he had fallen down the chute, but later admitted he had smelt the soup in the hallway, and followed the scent to the ventilation shaft where in his drunken state it made sense to crawl inside in search of it.