A woman managed to get herself stuck between a rock and a hard place…literally, in a rather ridiculous predicament.

A woman in Australia found herself in a situation you would struggle to believe if there weren’t pictures.

The emergency services couldn’t help but also poke a little bit of fun at this woman’s bizarre misfortune.

While out in Hunter Valley, New South Wales in Australia, a region known for growing and producing the countries’ wines, the woman had herself a bit of an accident.

In an incident that happened earlier this month, after dropping her phone in a crevice, the woman seemed to slip and fall headfirst into the 3-meter gap and wedge herself between two boulders.

The rescue required multiple emergency departments (NSW Ambulance)

The NSW Ambulance page explained the situation on Facebook earlier this week.

The page explained: “With no phone reception and unable to call for help herself, her friends called Triple Zero (000) after unsuccessful attempts to free her – the patient was hanging by her feet upside down for over an hour by this point.

“NSW Ambulance Specialist Rescue Paramedic Peter Watts worked with a multidisciplinary team to remove several heavy boulders to create a safe access point. With care, a hardwood frame was built to ensure stability while rescuers worked.”

Things would still prove challenging at this point as the rescue team had to maneuver the woman through a tight ‘S’ bend over the course of an hour.

As well as this, there was still the issue of the heavy rocks to deal with.

According to the social media post, a ‘specialised Tirfor winch’ was used to move a 500kg boulder.

Watts added: “In my 10 years as a rescue paramedic I had never encountered a job quite like this, it was challenging but incredibly rewarding,” Peter Watts said.

The woman’s feet stick out as she remains trapped (NSW Emergency)

“Every agency had a role, and we all worked incredibly well together to achieve a good outcome for the patient.”

Thankfully, the patient was freed safely, although it took a total of 7 hours. The woman came away only with a few scratches and bruises, however, she wasn’t able to get her phone back.

Not everyone is so lucky when they find themselves stuck in compromising positions out in nature.

A man who went cave exploring in the Nutty Putty Cave, Utah, is said to have died the ‘worst possible death’ after he went the wrong way down a cave and found himself stuck upside down.

Parents grieving the loss of their son claim they were ‘gagged’ from talking about him and ‘became the bad guys’ after the woman responsible for his death took them to court.

Jim and Susie Rapson from Canberra, Australia, were left heartbroken when their 25-year-old son and rising tennis star, Corey, died from his injuries sustained in a car crash in 2018.

His then 24-year-old girlfriend, fashion designer Angela Wilkes, was driving at the time and had reportedly stopped at a red light before accelerating across six lanes of traffic in the Melbourne suburb of Windsor.

Corey was 25 years old when he died in a car crash (A Current Affair/YouTube)

Wilkes was charged with dangerous driving causing death, and initially pleaded guilty to the charge, before claiming a year later that she had fainted behind the wheel.

She changed her plea after meeting a professor of cardiology who determined she had most likely fainted when her car entered the intersection.

The Office of Public Prosecutions accepted her version of events and dropped the case without a trial which the Rapson’s said they were never consulted on.

Susie and Jim Rapson (A Current Affair/YouTube)

At the time, Jim told A Current Affair: “Here we have someone who’s lost their life and the person who caused the accident walks away free.

“We were corralled into a small room (by the OPP) and told the case would be discontinued, and then we were cast into the street. There was no support, there was nothing.”

Yet, while in the midst of mourning the loss of their son, the Rapsons said they feel like they have been treated like criminals and were tormented once again when Wilkes took them to court to apply for a personal intervention order (PSIO) against them.

Angela Wilkes has maintained that she fainted behind the wheel (A Current Affair/YouTube)

Speaking to the news outlet this January, his mom said: “She was seeking to keep us quiet for her safety.

“But we don’t even live in Melbourne, we’ve only met her in court and I don’t know how – we’re not violent people.”

The parents claim they were ‘gagged’ by the intervention, which even stopped them from posting on an Instagram account to honor Corey’s memory.

The family say they ‘gagged’ from talking about Corey’s case (A Current Affair/YouTube)

The PSIO was eventually dropped, providing the Rapsons agreed not to talk about the woman for 12 months.

That order has since expired, and the grief-stricken family have been able to talk out about the ordeal.

Jim said: “Personally, I’ve never spoken to this individual at all.

“I’ve never communicated with her at all.”

Angela and Corey were reportedly dating for two months before the fatal crash (A Current Affair/YouTube

In her police interview at the time, Wilkes was reportedly asked if she suffered from blackouts or fits, which she replied ‘I don’t think so’.

Unconvinced that she would have been able to apply enough pressure to the accelerator from a stop position when in a blackout, the family asked prosecutors to review the case, which has been refused.

Jim added: “They decided that no, it’s done and dusted now.

“Somehow we became the bad guys.

“We’ve actually spent more time in court than the driver, to be honest.”

The family have since raised $13,137 for the Alfred hospital, where Corey spent three weeks in a coma before his death.

An uncontacted tribes expert captured incredibly rare footage of people who have been uncontactable, to ‘prove they exist’.

In world where we are able to speak to someone on the other side of the globe within seconds, it’s hard to believe that there are people who don’t know that social media, supermarkets, and phones exist.

However, drone footage – taken by G. Miranda for Survival International – has captured videos of tribespeople who have been disconnected from the rest of the world.

The drone flew over North Sentinel Island in a remote part of India, as well as the Amazon tribes in Brazil near the Javari River valley by the Peru border.

The videos were created to highlight just how different life can be lived on earth, as we get caught up in such busy and heavily online lives.

A video compiling photographs of these uncontacted people has been viewed more than 3.5 million times since being posted on the Death Island Expeditions YouTube page in 2018.

The video shows small settlements and homes, as well as tribespeople.

Some images show the tribespeople armed with bows and arrows and looking directly at the drone or photography equipment.

“It blows my mind how different our lives are. The fact that they don’t even know about the existence of grocery stores, factories, phones, social media, everything that makes our society what it is. It’s so surreal,” one user wrote.

Meirelles also noted how the uncontacted tribes of the region were in danger from illegal loggers in Peru. (G. Miranda/FUNAI/Survival)

FUNAI, the National Indian Foundation, is the Brazilian government body that establishes and carries out policies relating to uncontacted policies relating to indigenous people.

It is also responsible for some of the drone images seen in the video.

The footage of the uncontacted tribespeople of Brazil were taken in 2008, according to a report by Survival International, a human rights organisation.

According to reports, there was mounting pressure on FUNAI from powerful economic interests and politicians to prove these tribes existed, as they fought against development in the Amazon.

“We did the overflight to show their houses, to show they are there, to show they exist,” said uncontacted tribes expert José Carlos dos Reis Meirelles Júnior.

In 2008, Meirelles also noted how the uncontacted tribes of the region were in danger from illegal loggers in Peru, which could result in conflict.

“What is happening in this region [of Peru] is a monumental crime against the natural world, the tribes, the fauna and is further testimony to the complete irrationality with which we, the ‘civilised’ ones, treat the world,” he said.

Indigenous leaders in Brazil celebrated FUNAI’s decision to release the footage, insisting that these communities face a very high risk towards contagious diseases and outsider violence if they are contacted.

“The very fact that these groups are uncontacted makes them particularly vulnerable because they’re invisible to the majority of the public,” Beto Marubo, an indigenous activist, told National Geographic.

Facebook and Instagram are now back up and running after going down for many users across the globe.

The Meta social media platforms logged multiple users out of their accounts earlier today (March 5), with people noticing something was wrong with their apps.

Thankfully, before Elon Musk got too carried away with trolling the company, Facebook and Instagram are now back working again.

Downdetector – an online platform that provides users with real-time information about the status of various websites and services – revealed hundreds of thousands of reports that Facebook had gone down and Instagram also received thousands of reports from the same period of time too.

Many users flocked to X to question whether anyone else was experiencing it too and what the issue could be.

One user wrote: “Me making my annual return to X because instagram and Facebook are down.”

“Me after trying to reset my password 25 times and still can’t log back in bc I think my FB is getting hacked only to realize that FB and IG is down,” another said.

A third commented: “Anyone else got freaked and thought they were hacked?”

And a fourth added: “Facebook and instagram down. Meanwhile Elon Musk : Welcome To X.”

Indeed, it didn’t take long at all for X owner Musk to weigh in on the issues.

Down Detector

Taking to his platform, Musk wrote: “If you’re reading this post, it’s because our servers are working.”

Unable to help himself, the Tesla CEO followed up with another post showing the penguins from Madagascar – three of the penguins saluting one wearing a captains hat, each with a social media platform’s sign added on top of their chest. And it’s not hard to guess which social media app ended up as the penguin in the captain’s hat and shades.

Oh and for good measure, Musk also added in a screenshot of a tweet from Communications Director at Meta Andy Stone which reads: “We’re aware people are having trouble accessing our services. We are working on this now.”

X/@andymstone

Thankfully, it would appear such trouble has come to an end less than a couple of hours after it all first started, many users now able to access Facebook and Instagram once again.

But what was the issue in the first place which caused the Meta apps to go down?

Well, Meta has yet to publicly release a statement on the matter.