Kids Getting Stuck In Animal Game Machines- Terror Level: Spongebob

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Only in Sheboygan.

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AP- SHEBOYGAN, Wis. - 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.


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Here is a pic http://images.ibsys.com/2004/0105/2741675_200X150.jpg

My only question is, why didn't they just drop in a quarter and have that claw thing pick him up. Wait, those machines are tough. My sister dropped $5 once at Shakey's when we were kids and didn't win crap. That kid would probably still be in there.

But I saw a pic of this kid, and he was pretty big. It's really amazing how he got in there in the first place.

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How could no one think this is funny! I laughed for days!

Look! That freakin' kid is inside the machine! WHAT'S THE PROBLEM!

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I am again at a loss...where do you find these things!

I think its hilarious!

I say they should have just waited a full day and let others just try the claw and get the kid...maybe for some reward money.

Another classic HECK!

Nominations for you? Absolutely!

I heard Michael Jackson spent $20,000 trying to get him out.

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I bet the dad on the phone was David Blaine, and if you don't understand why this is very funny, go do a google search on him.

They should have hoisted the game machine up on the fire truck's ladder exension and use it to attract people to Piggly Wiggly.

I hear that there was just an order for one of the machine at NeverLand Ranch...

I wonder if they let the kid keep a stuffed animal of his choice

Piggly Wiggly? What the hell is that?

Wow, 6 months later... Piggly Wiggly is like a supermarket it in the Mid West, I believe.

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It happened again!

Kid caught in toy machine to be on Good Morning America

Updated: 03-28-2006 07:08:30 PM

(KAAL) -- An Austin boy who was rescued unscathed from inside an arcade machine will now bask under the spotlight of national television.

Three-year-old Devin Haskin climbed through the machine's prize door into this arcade game at Austin's Godfather's restaurant on Sunday.

The 30-pound boy was stuck inside the machine for about 15 minutes, but played happily until the fire department was able to get him out.

Since 6 NEWS FIRST aired Devin's story Sunday night, his mother says she's been inundated with TV interview requests.

Tomorrow morning, the Haskins are scheduled to appear on ABC'S "Good Morning, America".

The Haskins say they have no plans for a lawsuit. They hope Devin's mishap results in changes to the way these machines are made, so that something like this doesn't happen again.

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So, men's genitals getting cut off stories: 15

Kid's trapped in toy claw machines: 2

It's almost even.

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It happened again!

Toddler gets stuck in vending machine

ANTIGO, Wis. - Three-year-old Robert Moore went fishing for a stuffed replica of Sponge Bob and ended up trapped in a vending machine. The toddler's adventure began with a Saturday evening shopping trip with his grandmother, Fredricka Bierdemann, and three siblings.

Bierdemann ended the trip by giving each child a dollar and telling them to have fun in a retailer's game room.

A stuffed Sponge Bob in a vending machine's bin caught Robert's eye. He tried without success to fish it out with a plastic crane.

"I told him I could get it for him," his grandmother said. "He's a character. He said, 'Oh no, I can get it.'"

When she turned her back to get another dollar for a second try, Robert took off his coat and squeezed through an opening in the machine. He landed in the stuffed animal cube.

"I turned around and looked for him, and he said, 'Oma, I'm in here," Bierdemann said. "I thought I would have a heart attack."

Store employees couldn't find a key to the machine, so Robert waited while the Antigo Fire Department was called.

"He was having a ball in there, hugging all the stuffed animals," Bierdemann said. "He was so good-natured, but I was shaking like a leaf."

Firefighters broke one lock but then spotted two latches inside the plastic cube. They passed a screwdriver to Robert.

"He stacked up all the stuffed animals and used that screwdriver to open the latch," his grandmother said. "You should have seen him go."

Eventually, Robert freed himself. But his mother, Marie Moore, and grandmother said they were lucky that he remained calm when another child might not have. He went home safe — but without a stuffed Sponge Bob.

http://www.inreview.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=677001

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Kid's trapped in toy claw machines: 3

Man, the third story I've found in two years. I should write a thesis on this. Freakin' comedy!

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