Ya'll remember those old time washing machines where you had to manually run the clothes through the rollers to get the water out of them? Well, I managed to get my arm inbetween the rollers while my Mom was washing. That was the time she came closest to panicking. You have to press down on the top roller to disengage the hook and free the roller. But if she did that she would break my arm for sure. She would neve tell me how they got me out of it, so I guess it was tramautic for her.