(This content was created with the help of AI.) A hike in upstate New York turned into a six-hour-plus ordeal for a Brooklyn man who became wedged so tightly in a cave crevice that rescuers had to drill rock away inches from his body to free him, ABC News reports.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation says the man got stuck about 400 feet inside Merlin’s Cave in the town of Canaan on May 17 while hiking with friends.
Forest Ranger Lt. John Gullen, who led the effort, said in a video that the man’s body was lodged in a crack “basically designed the exact shape of him” and that he was “really jammed in there more than I had expected.” Per WRGB Albany, responders were dispatched at 6:39pm after the man had been stuck about an hour, and freed him around 1am…