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Those photos do a great job illustrating what his situation looked like.

Here's to hoping he finds his two friends after all these years!

I look at that and think "I would get cramp immediately and be in absolute agony".

Developing blood clots in the legs because of insufficient circulation is what I was afraid of when seeing the image.

I'd ship myself in a nice big coffin with lots of soft upholstery and leg room to stretch out. That way if the worst happened and I died en route, nobody'd suspect foul play.

When I was a kid we were playing around and I got zipped into a suitcase. I had to really "get small".

I was completely fine for a while, until a little while in it was like a switch was flipped and I was "let me out omg let me out". I freaked out. then I was out and was fine. But I remember that extreme claustrophobia moment.