[exabrial]

Reminds me of the time I helped fish a mechanical pencil out of grand piano. It was dropped in _just_ the right spot that it jammed the sustain pedal open, but was completely unreachable, and the pianists sort of made the problem worse. Ended up using some mountain bike tools to get it out ironically (Park Tool IR-1.2).

It's very sad to see a tragedy like this caused by something so simple :(

[HeyLaughingBoy]

There was some F1 driver a long time ago whose throttle jammed just as he was about to enter a turn. It cleared up after exiting, but now he realized that he could safely take that turn at wide open throttle and went on to win the race.

[jacquesm]

Eliane Rodrigues had something like that happen, she dealt with it in the most graceful and hilarious way:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBbRTRBY4D4