Well this brings to mind a friend of my father back in Chicago. He lived in a remodeled brick building and had a gas station right across the street...
As it turns out, the remodel of his house was generally good (I remember this house from my yoot), with the exception that, because of a split-level re-design, the window in his bathroom was pretty much even with the floor. That was not optimal, but it was in the bathroom, so his wife just hung a long floor-length curtain at normal height and left the curtain closed.
Well, it was winter, and a howler outside, dumping down snow, and below freezing when he got done at the shop and battled the wind and cold on his short walk home. And since his wife had not yet returned, he wandered upstairs to the bathroom to shower in preparation for dinnertime.
Getting out of the shower, he slipped on the wet tile and went down... Soon discovering himself deposited in a snow bank, having blown right out the window and to the ground below. Wet and naked as a jaybird, he realized his dangerous predicament... The door was locked, and the window he had fallen from was on the second floor.
Then it came to him... The big picture window in the living room had not yet had the latch and locks installed - And if he could reach it, he could gain access. As luck would have it, the keys to his tow truck were left in the cab, so off he went streaking across the street to sit in the ice-cold cab and start up the truck.
Everything went fine from there... The truck started fine, and lights a-blaring, he took a run at the drifts below the living room window, and on the first go, got the truck close enough to attempt access from the hood of the truck into the picture window.
But alas, while the window opened fine, while he was crawling through, the window came down across his middle, and having nothing to stand upon to give his legs leverage...
There he was.
A passing motorist noticed his bare ass in the glow of the tow truck lights and called the cops. As they were arriving, with red and blues flashing, and the tow truck flashing, to the bemusement of the small group of cops, His wife arrived home that very moment.
That is not the sort of thing one will ever live down. And his only luck was in the fact that youtube was far, far from being created yet.
I have a particular fondness for folks trapped by windows ever since...
