Overview
- Police and firefighters freed a man in Guangzhou after a delivery worker heard cries for help and reported that he was trapped in his apartment.
- He had wrapped himself in a quilt, covered his body with a fishing net, and tightened long zip ties from his neck down to his ankles as part of the so-called escape challenge.
- Responders forced open the gate, found him bound on a bed, and cut through the restraints to release him.
- Firefighter Liu Junjie said two zip ties around the man’s neck created a severe suffocation risk and warned that a delay or more struggling could have been fatal.
- The man was reported shaken but unharmed, and authorities urged people not to copy restraint-based challenges that have been circulating online.