--- title: Man in Portland Maine Gets Stuck in Seatbelt: Viral Video description: And we highly recommend you watch it too canonical: https://time.com/3826397/man-stuck-in-seatbelt/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-17T14:45:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:18:51.411Z og:title: 30 Million People Have Watched This Video of a Man Stuck In His Seatbelt og:description: And we highly recommend you watch it too og:url: https://time.com/3826397/man-stuck-in-seatbelt/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 30 Million People Have Watched This Video of a Man Stuck In His Seatbelt twitter:description: And we highly recommend you watch it too twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # 30 Million People Have Watched This Video of a Man Stuck in His Seatbelt by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Apr 17, 2015 2:45 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Apr 17, 2015 2:45 PM UTC When Clint Chadbourne found himself stuck in a snagged seatbelt, he didn’t know the ordeal would end up delighting millions of people. His main focus was really just how to get out of his daughter’s car — or, as he says in his strong Maine accent, her “cah.” Chadbourne’s daughter, Kelly, filmed his two-minute struggle, the Portland _Press Herald_ [reports](http://www.pressherald.com/2015/04/16/maine-couple-go-viral-as-seat-belt-snags/). His wife, Bonnie, went back and forth between trying to help him and just laughing hysterically. Since Bonnie shared the video [on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10204207953780223) on April 6, it’s racked up 30.5 million views. In a [Facebook post ](https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10204270567305522&set=a.1020305269075.3751.1268478461&type=1)Wednesday, Bonnie said it was never her intention for the clip to go viral — but she’s glad it has spread so much laughter: --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3826397/man-stuck-in-seatbelt/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3826397/man-stuck-in-seatbelt/"},"headline":"30 Million People Have Watched This Video of a Man Stuck in His Seatbelt","datePublished":"2015-04-17T14:45:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:18:51.411Z","description":"And we highly recommend you watch it too","url":"https://time.com/3826397/man-stuck-in-seatbelt/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3826397/man-stuck-in-seatbelt/","name":"30 Million People Have Watched This Video of a Man Stuck in His Seatbelt"}}]}] ```