My laptop feel deeply in love with a LAN cable and is now refusing to allow it to get out of bed.

How does one extract an unwilling LAN cable from a laptop without damaging the LAN port in the computer. The LAN cable I'm not at all worried about, its the expensive laptop that I want to keep using.

The LAN cable is sthe standard sort, with the rubber covering piece that shields the plastic clip that holds the cable into the computer. The plastic clip depresses all the way, but the plug will not budge from the LAN port. Are there any options other than violence and a Leatherman tool prying it out?