When I was younger, I used to work as a lifeguard at an indoor pool. I will always remember my first rescue. It was a young boy, about 12 years old, who jumped from the 5 meter board and realized his zipper was down while in the air. Of course, because of the free-falling, the gravity didn't exercise its action on the stuff underneath, causing it to float and the shock of entering the water helped the zip go all its way up, although there was something stuck in it...
Anyway, I couldn't stop laughing when I saw this link today:
http://www.indianpediatrics.net/mar2006/mar-252-254.htm It seems I'm not the only one who had to help someone with this problem, if these guys established a procedure for it!
If you want to see more funny scientific papers, check out this link:
http://www.oddee.com/item_90683.aspx