Author Topic: Boy Gets Stuck in Animal Game Machine (Read 3627 times)

Holly · « **on:** January 11, 2004, 08:33:19 pm »

I thought this was interesting!

http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20030904140309990043

Boy Gets Stuck in Animal Game Machine

SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (Jan. 5) - A 7-year-old boy had to be rescued with the help of a locksmith Saturday after crawling into a supermarket's stuffed animal game machine while his father talked on the telephone.

"He was sitting right in there with the stuffed animals," said Shift Commander Mark Zittel of the Sheboygan Fire Department.

He said the boy, whose name was not released because he is a minor, crawled through about an 8-inch-by-10-inch opening to get into the glass enclosure via a chute where the toys come out, but when he tried to get back out his way was blocked.

The stuffed animals are prizes that can be hooked by players with a crane-like device.

"His dad was three feet away at a pay phone," Zittel said. "He was talking on the phone and he said the next thing he turned around and the kid was in the thing."

He said the boy stayed calm and didn't panic as firefighters responded to the Piggly Wiggly store and then moved the game machine to the back of the store and got a locksmith to open the main loading door. The process took about an hour.

"There was no panic," Zittel said. "We could have broke the glass if there was an emergency."

The boy was not injured or traumatized but desperately had to go to the bathroom, he said.

But rescuers hadn't figured out how the boy was able to crawl into the game, or why no one in the store's busy lobby spotted him and stopped him before he got inside.

Manda · « **Reply #1 on:** January 11, 2004, 08:34:36 pm »

LMAO!!!!!!

thats so funny, omg!

Manda :blob:

MyLifeIsLikeATM · « **Reply #2 on:** January 11, 2004, 08:42:42 pm »

thats pretty funny. never heard of such a thing :lol:

Holly · « **Reply #3 on:** January 11, 2004, 09:03:11 pm »

yeah, i never thought it was possible, lol

xxjenniferxx · « **Reply #4 on:** January 11, 2004, 09:32:06 pm »

oh man i know.....i was like how the hell he got in there.....LoL...i didnt think it was possible either...thats really wierd

tylor2000 · « **Reply #5 on:** January 11, 2004, 09:35:25 pm »

Well they could have tried to play the game. Someone really skilled at it could have snatched him. :razz:

tylor

Holly · « **Reply #6 on:** January 11, 2004, 10:07:15 pm »

lmao FTWB! :wink:

8-inch-by-10-inch opening?! how the hell? lol, that's tiny! maybe he'll grow up to be like one of those really flexible who can squeeze themselves through a tennis racket!

eclv · « **Reply #7 on:** January 11, 2004, 10:10:32 pm »

I saw that on the news a few days ago. Haha poor boy. He wanted that stuffed animal bad. But they said he didn't even get one.

Holly · « **Reply #8 on:** January 11, 2004, 10:14:05 pm »

Quote from: "eclv"

I saw that on the news a few days ago. Haha poor boy. He wanted that stuffed animal bad. But they said he didn't even get one.

Are you serious? They should have just given him one! I would have if it was my store!
I used to love those machines when I was lil! My bro was always good at getting them for me! lol... he knew tricks or whatever. I still have 2 animals I got from one, Cha Cha and Muku

tylor2000 · « **Reply #9 on:** January 11, 2004, 10:17:15 pm »

Well being a seven year old boy it doesn't suprize me he could get in. I could squeeze by a foot wide opening probably..... The door is only one way though, meaning you can swing it in but not out probably. That is why his path was blocked and couldn't get out. He pushed the door open climbed in, probably sideways part of the way. He couldn't get out because he wasn't strong enough to lift the door in and up, and, get into position to climb out. So is my theory.

tylor

Holly · « **Reply #10 on:** January 11, 2004, 10:23:52 pm »

Well I guess that makes sense... I thought about it and remembered I used to be able to fit through doggy door when I was little, lol. I just measured it and it's about the same size as that opening, 7" by 11"! I could do that till I was about 12. I was tall but used to be really skinny, lol. It came in handy for when we locked ourselves outside!

xxjenniferxx · « **Reply #11 on:** January 11, 2004, 10:33:29 pm »

Quote from: "tylor2000"

Well they could have tried to play the game. Someone really skilled at it could have snatched him. :razz:

tylor

thats nuts... :lol:

tricia · « **Reply #12 on:** January 11, 2004, 10:41:43 pm »

that was so funny.

ROFLMAO

Tia · « **Reply #13 on:** January 12, 2004, 02:38:03 am »

:roflmao:

Scotty · « **Reply #14 on:** January 12, 2004, 08:05:53 am »

Lol I am gonna try that :twisted:

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