In a harrowing story coming out of a bedroom in Chicago, IL, 28-year-old Paige O’Connor is desperately attempting to free her boyfriend from the duvet cover he’s currently trapped inside.
“He told me he had this ‘special way’ to put a duvet cover back on,” Paige told reporters, while a vaguely human-shaped figure thrashed around inside a linen coverlet behind her. “How was I supposed to know he was going to get inside of it?”
Paige said things started to go south when he put the duvet cover over his head.
“He lost his bearings almost immediately,” Paige said. “I tried to physically pull him out, but somehow that only caused him to get more twisted and tangled.”
However, Paige’s boyfriend, 28-year-old Harris Putnam, has not yet given up hope.
“I’ve got my phone with me under here and I’mw watching a tutorial about how to put a duvet cover on, so I should be out of here in no time,” Harris told reporters, his voice slightly muffled by the linen draped over his head and body.
However, after several more minutes of no success, reporters started doubting he’d ever manage to free himself.
Still Harris insisted that this was “pretty much how long it takes everyone to put a duvet cover back on.”
Paige, though, wasn’t convinced, and continued her rescue efforts from the outside.
“Follow my voice!” Paige instructed Harris from where she was kneeling near the opening of the duvet cover. “Or just follow your legs down. I feel like that should be, like, super easy.”
“Should I take him to the ER, do you think?” Paige asked reporters. “How much do they usually charge for duvet cover extractions? I’m sure they see this kind of thing all the time.”
However, when reporters reached out to local doctors, they said that they “never see this kind of thing” and to “absolutely, under no circumstances” bring him in.
As of press time, Harris had somehow gotten more stuck, inexplicably managing to fully button himself in. Meanwhile, Paige had resigned herself to the fact that she’d just have to cut him out like she did when he got trapped inside the fitted sheet last month.
“I just wish he’d stop getting stuck inside things,” she said. “Bedding’s not cheap!”
