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Swimmer's belly button ring gets caught on drain
Posted: 11.16.2012 at 8:26 AM Updated: 11.16.2012 at 8:50 AM
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A swimmers foot is pressed against an underwater window in the warm up pool.  / AP photo
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GREELEY, Colo. (AP) — Firefighters in Colorado say a woman's belly button ring became entangled with a drain cover in a shallow splash pool but that she was freed without injury.

Authorities say the woman became stuck Wednesday as she floated on her stomach with her child in a shallow pool at the Greeley Family Funplex.

Firefighters tried to turn the ring to free her but then started to drain the pool while working to manipulate the ring.

They said Thursday that she eventually was freed and she wasn't hurt in the process.

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