FIRE crews were called to rescue a Tinder dater trapped upside down in a window attempting to retrieve a poo she unsuccessfully tried to throw away, it's claimed.

The woman is said to have been on a date at a house in Bristol when she panicked after apparently being unable to flush the faeces down the toilet.

4 Liam Smyth pictured his date trapped upside down in the window Credit: SWNS:South West News Service

4 She is said to have been desperately trying to retrieve a poo when she became stuck Credit: SWNS:South West News Service

Her date, Liam Smyth, says she then tried to throw the stool out of the window but watched in horror as it fell between an internal and external layer of glass.

Liam, 24, a sociology student at Bristol University, said his date bravely confessed the situation - but got into difficulty as the pair tried to retrieve the poo.

Avon Fire and Rescue confirmed they were called to the address at around 10.40pm on August 7 and rescued the woman - but did not confirm what exactly had led her to become stuck in the precarious position.

Writing on a GoFundMe page raising money to repair the window - which had to be destroyed in the rescue - Liam said the fledgling couple had been watching a Louis Theroux documentary when their night took an interesting turn.

He said: "She returned with a panicked look in her eye, and told me she had something to tell me.

"'I went for a poo in your toilet', she told me 'and it would not flush. I don't know why I did this, but I panicked', she continued 'I reached into the toilet bowl, wrapped it in tissue paper, and threw it out of the window'.

4 The mortified date was left trapped upside down Credit: SWNS:South West News Service

"Unfortunately, owing to a design quirk of my house, the toilet window does not in fact open to the garden, but instead into a narrow gap of about a foot and a half, separated from the outside world by another (non-opening) double glazed window.

"It was into this twilight zone that my date had thrown her poo.

"Being an amateur gymnast, she was convinced that she could reach into the window and pull the poo out.

"Unfortunately she couldn't reach. She climbed further in and had the same problem.

4 Fire crews took around 15 minutes to rescue her Credit: SWNS:South West News Service

"She called out to me to help her climb out from the window, I grabbed her waist and I pulled. But she was stuck.

"Unfortunately for my date, at this stage I could see only one way out of our predicament.

"She had been upside down in the window for around 15 minutes at this point, and I was starting to grow concerned for her health. I called the fire brigade."

Liam said any excess funds raised by the appeal will be donated to clean water charity Toilet Twinning and The Fire Fighter's Charity.

An Avon Fire and Rescue Service spokesman said: "We received a call at 22:41 to one female trapped between interior and exterior glass.

"Two crews were sent from Temple station and she was rescued using hand tools."