A Chinese boy got himself trapped in a lift after weeing inside and causing an electrical short-circuit.
Surveillance camera footage shows the boy urinating at the buttons while taking the lift alone at 8 pm on February 23.
The lift stopped working and failed to open but the boy was freed shortly. He did not sustain any injuries.
A young boy is seen urinating in a lift as he is taking the lift alone in a neighborhood
CCTV footage captures the moment he aims at the control panel and wees on the buttons
According to Jiangsu News, the boy, who has not been identified, went in a passenger lift in a neighborhood in Chongqing of southwest China last Friday.
The boy was taking the lift on his own, as CCTV footage shows.
He started weeing at the button panel from bottom to top. However, the lift went haywire and stopped working.
The buttons were flashing red and failed to respond.
The controls flash in red before the panel goes dead, trapping the boy in the lift
He was luckily saved and did not sustain any injuries, according to a Chinese news report
The boy ended up stuck in the lift despite ringing the alarm bell and pressing the ‘open’ button.
Jiangsu News reported that the urine caused a temporary electrical short-circuit.
Luckily, the boy was saved and reported to be unharmed.
Last August, one six-year-old boy, from east China, urinated at the control panel in a lift and caused it to short-circuit.
The boy fell to the lift shaft as the door failed to close. He was in a coma for 16 days.
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