Teen gets trapped in restroom, hurtles to safety

One more reason to avoid the Marq*E Entertainment Center: You might get stuck in a bathroom and be forced to climb into a ceiling to escape. Couldn't happen, you say? Tell that to 16-year-old Shelby Moore. Moore and some friends went to the Marq*E on Wednesday to see a movie. On the way to the theater, Moore stopped at a restroom; when he tried to leave, he discovered that the door was jammed. His friends called the complex's security guards, but they weren't able to get the door open, as KPRC reports:

"I was jerking it (the door) and jerking it," Moore said. "I couldn't get out. They (the security guards) wouldn’t kick it. I told them to kick it in, I need to get out of here before I pass out. They just didn't do anything. The whole door is broken now. Now they get it open whenever I fall through the roof."

(We're glad Channel 2 specified that it was the door Moore was jerking — we can't imagine what else he'd have been doing in a restroom for an hour.) As a friend recorded the rescue attempt with a cell phone camera from outside the restroom, Moore (who is claustrophobic and was apparently freaking out in the restroom) climbed up into the ceiling and climbed to safety — but unfortunately, he fell through the ceiling into the property management office along the way. Paramedics treated Moore after the fall, and he was taken to a nearby hospital to get five stitches in his hand.

Security guards said they did everything they could to get Moore out, but Aaron Miller, the friend who recorded the incident with his phone, painted a different picture. "He's saying 'Let me out! Help! Help!'" Miller told Channel 2. "[The security guards] are just laughing. I was really mad."