Jimmy Swingler got a pollyfilla-filled microwave stuck on his head (Picture: Romell Henry)

Firefighters have expressed their anger at having to spend an hour rescuing a YouTube ‘prankster’ who got his friends to cement his head inside a microwave.

The 22-year-old, believed to be Jimmy Swingler, one half of TGFbro, and a group of friends mixed seven bags of Polyfilla before they poured it around his head, which was protected by a plastic bag inside the appliance.

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Their intention was to use the microwave as a mould, and by the time emergency services were at 1.49pm on Wednesday to the garage of a house in Fordhouses, Wolverhampton, the group had already been trying to free him for an hour and a half.



They filmed the incident for their YouTube channel and before the stunt began Swingler acknowledges that it’s extremely dangerous and he may die.


The friends had managed to feed an air tube into the man’s head to help him breathe.

The fire service’s official account tweeted: ‘We’re seriously unimpressed ?.

His friends had already been trying to free him for an hour and a half before help arrived (Picture: West Midlands Fire Service)

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An air tube had to be inserted into the microwave to help him breathe (Picture: West Midlands Fire and Rescue)

‘Five of our firefighters were tied up for an hour this afternoon, freeing a YouTube pranker whose head had been “cemented’ inside a microwave oven”.

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Watch Commander Shaun Dakin, officer in charge of the West Midlands Fire Service crew who responded, said: ‘As funny as this sounds, this young man could quite easily have suffocated or have been seriously injured.’

He added: ‘Taking the microwave apart was tricky, because a lot of it was welded.

‘We video-called our technical rescue colleagues for advice and eventually managed to get him unstuck.

Firefighters and an ambulance crew had to help him get out of the microwave (Picture: Romell Henry)

Firefighters had to spend an hour freeing this idiot after he got his head stuck in a microwave filled with Pollyfilla (Picture: West Midlands Fire Service)

Firefighters were not impressed by his stupid prank (Picture: West Midlands Fire and Rescue)

‘He was very relieved when we removed a large chunk of the Polyfilla with a screwdriver, allowing him to breathe more easily.

‘But we had to be extremely careful with the screwdriver, working so closely to his head.

‘It took us nearly an hour to free him.

‘All of the group involved were very apologetic, but this was clearly a call-out which might have prevented us from helping someone else in genuine, accidental need.’