Don't know whether it would work with a bangle, but a nurse managed to get a ring off my finger with a piece of thread. The ring was whizzing round my finger the night before the op, then on the morning it WOULD NOT come off. I tried soap, hand cream, cold water, all to no avail with the finger swelling up with each attempt. In theatre, the nurse took one look at mny finger and got out her piece of thread, wound it round the ring and somehow twisted it off. Do you know any nurses?