Man dies one week after head gets stuck in movie theater seat:

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It's something most moviegoers have done at one time or another: reach far beneath a seat in a movie theater to retrieve an item -- keys, coins, whatever -- that slipped out of their pocket. Earlier this month, it reportedly cost a man his life in England.

According to a story in the Birmingham Mail, the man was trying to retrieve his cell phone, which had fallen between a pair of luxury reclining seats during a March 9 screening at a Vue Cinema theater. When the man reached beneath the seat to retrieve it, the electric footrest unexpectedly clamped down on his head.

"He was stuck and panicking," an unnamed source was quoted as saying. "His partner and staff tried to free him but couldn't."

The footrest was eventually broken to free the man, who was treated by paramedics for a heart attack. He was then taken via ambulance to a nearby hospital, where he died a week later, on March 16.

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