Man arrested after getting finger stuck in his car's petrol tank

Firefighters from Upper Darby Township were called out on Thursday afternoon after a Philadelphia man got his finger stuck in the petrol tank of his car.





Emergency Responders were called to the Upper Darby Wash and Lube Station at around 5:15pm following the report of a man with his finger stuck in the gas tank of a car. According to firefighters at the scene, Christopher Bolger, 25, said he thought someone had put chocolate in his gas tank, and he was trying to clean it out, when he got stuck.





Emergency responders first tried to slip the stuck digit from the tank, using lubricants but when that was unsuccessful they had to disassemble the piping that leads to the gas tank. About an hour after they arrived, they cut Bolger free from the car, but the pipe was still stuck on his finger. He was taken to Penn Presbyterian Hospital for treatment and to have the pipe removed.




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While there, however, authorities discovered that Bolger was wanted for failure to appear on a bench warrant for a protection from abuse order, Upper Darby police Superintendent Michael Chitwood said, and he was taken into custody after he was released from the hospital. "It's dumb all the way around on his part," Chitwood said. "Stupid is as stupid does."