Need Advice! Trunk Won't Open!

i bent a 90* bend on the end of a 4ft. piece of shelf bracket. The kind with the rectangular lots for the arms the shelf sits on. I pulled the back seat and slip this thru the trunk and the latch pin fits the slot and i twist and turn the latch. I dont have any small children and i,m too fat to crawl in. Neccesity is the mother of invention.