Pup Rescued From TV Cord Tangle
Samson recovers from his terrifying ordeal on his favorite fish-themed cushion.
MITHERS, GA—Jeremy and Joshua Huegins were playing New Super Mario Bros. Wii when whimpers of terror interrupted the action. The twin brothers, who had only recently acquired the game, at first believed that the sounds were part of the platforming action onscreen.
“I thought it was Luigi whining,” Jeremy told reporters.
“I thought it was Jeremy,” Joshua added. “He’s been studying ventriloquism, and I was beating him.”
But as the whimpers became more panicky, the brothers paused the game and went to investigate.
Behind the family’s 50” TV they found their 16-week old puppy, Samson. The Cavalier King Charles Spaniel had become entangled in a Gordian knot of console cords and was immobile.
“We’ve got a lot of stuff hooked up to the TV,” confessed the boys’ father, Denon Huegins. “There’s the cable box, DVD, stereo, Wii, Xbox 360, Playstation 3, TiVo and something we got from my mother-in-law that we haven’t been able to identify.”
Firemen who responded to the emergency said that quick-thinking by the twins likely saved Samson’s life.
“They sacrificed their game by unplugging everything connected to the TV,” reported Fireman Jake Siebald of the Mithers fire department. “That relieved enough pressure on the dog’s trachea that it was able to survive until we arrived with the cable cutters of life.”
The fire crew turned off power to the home then proceeded to cut through all the cords until they could reach Samson and safely remove him.
“We discovered something quite amazing,” Siebald acknowledged afterward. “The Huegins had a viper’s nest of old, unconnected cords back there. I saw a few cords that looked as if they dated back to the previous century. Frankly, it was just a matter of time before some unwary animal was trapped behind that TV.”
The National Electronics Safety Education Council affirmed the danger, which they say threatens more than two thirds of all American families and over a billion people worldwide. “It’s one of the great, unheralded technological ticking time bombs,” commented Neil Orindol of the NESEC. “You hear a lot about melting ice caps these days, but I’m here to tell you that no ice cap ever strangled a kitten.”
The NESEC recommends using a professional behind-TV management service to detangle your cords, remove old, unconnected cords and eliminate hazards. –Dr. Jess Ariella
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