SPOKANEVALLEY, Was.-- Remember that scene in the movie, A Christmas Story where the little boy gets his tongue frozen to a metal pole?
It happened Monday in Spokane Valley, a chilly reminder to children of what not do during wintertime. A 13-year-old girl stuck her tongue on a metal pole at the old Pratt Elementary School.
The problem: in the 10 degree weather, her tongue froze there.
She did it right after her friend stuck her lip on the pole and the came off.
When the tongue froze to the pole, her friend called 911 and firefighters had to come out and pour water on it to get it unstuck.
Captain John Lovell from the Spokane Valley fire department told KREM news, evidently she hadn t seen Christmas Story and didn t believe it would happen, even though her friend had done it right before her so hopefully they learned a lesson here.
The firefighter told KREM it s the first time in 15 years that he has ever had to thaw a person s frozen tongue from a metal pole.
The girl says it hurt.
The lesson, firefighters say: don't make the same mistake.
