kid gets trapped in "grabber" game . . . film at eleven . . .

[OneBlueSky]

got a chuckle out of this one . . .



7-year-old gets stuck in stuffed animal game machine


A 7-year-old boy watches as firefighters try to figure out how to get him out of a supermarket's stuffed animal game machine after he managed to crawl into the game while his father talked on a pay phone three feet away Saturday.

http://www.chippewa.com/articles/2004/01/04/news/news3.txt

SHEBOYGAN (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.

(snip)

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

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http://www.chippewa.com/articles/2004/01/04/news/news3.txt

[WillParkinson]

1. If it wasn't for the fact that those games are fixed...

They could have just used the crane!

[POed_Ex_Repub]

2. You keep waiting for the line that says...

"Yeah man, and we spent like thirty bucks trying to get him out, but he just kept slipping through the $#@#! claws"

[militarymanusaf]

4. Don't give the rethuglicans

any ideas! They've done a lot worse!

[Fleshdancer]

3. Does he get to keep the toys??? n/t

[Obamarama]

5. Idiot father.....

Talking on a pay phone THREE FEET AWAY!?