Oklahoma boy rescued after tongue gets stuck on pole

 
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: January 12, 2011

WOODWARD — In a scene straight from the movie " A Christmas Story ," an 8-year-old Oklahoma boy got his tongue stuck to a metal pole after he licked it on a dare.

Officials say when rescue crews arrived Tuesday morning, the boy was standing on his tiptoes, trying to wriggle his frozen tongue free from a stop sign pole across the street from Woodward Middle School.

Paramedics were able to help the boy by pourin...


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