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Illinois priest calls 911 after getting stuck in handcuffs and gag he was ‘playing with’

Springfield, IL — A Catholic priest from the Springfield diocese headed by Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki, who testified against Illinois’ marriage equality bill, is on administrative leave after calling 911 to report that he was unable to remove a pair of handcuffs he’d been “playing with.” 
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Father Tom Donovan as seen in his Linked-In profile

    “I’m going to need help getting out before this becomes a medical emergency,” Father Tom Donovan told a dispatcher during the Nov. 28 call.

    “You’re stuck in a pair of handcuffs?” the dispatcher asks.

    “(I was) playing with them and I need help getting out,” Donovan responds.

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    The Sordid History and Evolution of Handcuff Design

    Here’s an interesting article on how Handcuffs came into existence.

    The Sordid History and Evolution of Handcuff Design

    Handcuffs have unusual and contradictory design requirements: They must serve one human, and at the same time thwart another.
    For those who wield handcuffs, they must be light and efficient to put on and remove from a perpetrator. For the unfortunate wearer, the devices must restrain resistant wrists whether they happen to be thick or thin. And cuffs can’t succumb to cleverness or brute force escape attempts.