[pecivil]

Now that this has happened to you, here is what you do to make it east next time. its some work, but the next time it happens you will be glad.....

remove the front bumper cover, and then route the release cable through the hole in the actul steel bumper, and right next to the plug opening in the bumper cover.

So when it happens again, all you need to do is pull off the bumper plug from the outside, grab the cable and pull it.

this is a "standard boxster hack" sort of thing.