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Oddly Enough: Boy gets stuck in supermarket game machine Jan. 5, 2004 | SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) -- 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. Space for sale... | |
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that must be one teensy kid. | |
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Do not hurry yourself in your spirit to become offended, for the taking of offense is what rests in the bosom of the stupid ones. (Ecclesiastes 7:9) | |
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how the hell??? | |
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I won Lleena in one of those things. | |
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as a boy
i got my head stuck in a sewer trying to retrieve a ball for 20 minutes peee eeewww | |
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2the9s said: I won Lleena in one of those things.
I thought you won a goldfish? you named her Lleena | |
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My brother once got his hand stuck in a game machine | |
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Lleena said: 2the9s said: I won Lleena in one of those things.
I thought you won a goldfish? you named her Lleena | |
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2the9s said: Lleena said: 2the9s said: I won Lleena in one of those things.
I thought you won a goldfish? you named her Lleena | |
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Were the kids bones made of rubber? How the hell did he fit through that thing??? The day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom - Anais Nin
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shausler said: as a boy
i got my head stuck in a sewer trying to retrieve a ball for 20 minutes peee eeewww this may well be one of the best confessions in org history.. Space for sale... | |
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