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Brian Cowl from Lewisham was described as ‘foolhardy’ by authorities after he had to be rescued from his back room by fire fighters following an attempt to wrap a Christmas present unassisted.

‘I didn’t think it’d be too difficult,’ Cowl later said of his attempt to wrap a Michael Bublé CD, ‘after all, the missus usually does it and she can’t even wire a plug.’

However, three hours after starting Cowl’s howls of anguish alerted neighbours and the Fire Brigade, led by a trail of torn up gift tags featuring attempts to write ‘to Doreen, love Brian’, found the would-be present wrapper hunched over a roll of Sellotape, rocking back and forth as he frantically scratched the surface with his thumbnail.

‘That’s the last time I ever buy and wrap a present for my wife,’ said a chastened Cowl, ‘Next year I’ll get her a voucher and put it in with her- Oh Christ, the card…’

Posted: Dec 24th, 2009 by jp1885