CD broke inside the player

[seasvx]

when i stopped for coffee this morning, i left a CD in the OE Panasonic player and closed the cover. came out, started the car and heard the CD trying to eject behind the closed cover. this has happened before and i've managed to get the cover open, which results in bending the CD down severely as the cover drops. every other time, the CD would felx enough but this one broke. i ended up with about 1/3 in my hand and 2/3 of the disc still in the player. that part is apparantly not in contact with the transport mechanism 'cause it makes noise like it's trying to eject but can't grab the remainder of the disc.

i did searches here using several different search parameters and read the process for removal of the entire unit but i didn't find anything about how to extract this piece of broken-off CD.

anybody got a method to sneak this thing out w/o having to do the whole de-install process? i'd be grateful for a workable answer.