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7-year-old gets stuck in stuffed animal game machine
The Chippewa Herald ^
| Sunday, January 04, 2004
Posted on 01/04/2004 5:01:27 PM PST by KneelBeforeZod
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.
"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.
TOPICS: Miscellaneous; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: 7yearold; gamemachine; oops; sevenyearold; trapped
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To: KneelBeforeZod
"Where there's a will..."
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posted on
01/04/2004 5:03:29 PM PST
by
4mycountry
(If you're reading this tagline you have way too much time on your hands.)
To: KneelBeforeZod
My kids would have been smart enough to start pushing the animals out.
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posted on
01/04/2004 5:04:03 PM PST
by
U S Army EOD
(When the EOD technician screws up, he is always the first to notice.)
To: KneelBeforeZod
Sounds like something my baby boy would have gotten into! (He's 21 now.)
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01/04/2004 5:04:08 PM PST
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01/04/2004 5:04:12 PM PST
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To: mhking
JD ping
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posted on
01/04/2004 5:04:27 PM PST
by
4mycountry
(If you're reading this tagline you have way too much time on your hands.)
To: KneelBeforeZod
Looking for love in all the wrong places...........
To: KneelBeforeZod
That boy had the time of his life!
To: KneelBeforeZod
Locksmith???? Probably could got the kid out with ten bucks worth of quarters...
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posted on
01/04/2004 5:06:51 PM PST
by
djf
To: KneelBeforeZod
I could have gotten him out with just 50 cents...
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posted on
01/04/2004 5:08:45 PM PST
by
WinOne4TheGipper
(Oklahomans: If you're related to some of them, you're related to all of them.)
To: hobbes1; xsmommy; dubyaismypresident; Gabz; Robert A. Cook, PE; martin_fierro
Tiger, was this one of your boys?
LOL
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posted on
01/04/2004 5:09:28 PM PST
by
RikaStrom
(Iraq/Libya - Who cares about their hearts and minds, when we have them by the balls?)
To: Howlin; Ed_NYC; MonroeDNA; widgysoft; Springman; Timesink; dubyaismypresident; Grani; coug97; ...
If they put enough quarters in, they could have gotten him out...
Just damn.
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posted on
01/04/2004 5:10:44 PM PST
by
mhking
(My brother and I had never seen The Belt........but we had heard about it....)
To: KneelBeforeZod
Houdini doesn't have anything on this kid!
I wonder if the father in question wasn't on the phone longer than he said he was.... (just curious!)
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posted on
01/04/2004 5:13:00 PM PST
by
Maigrey
(Dubya: Drives SUV; Eats Beef; Kills Animals, a Man's Man!)
To: KneelBeforeZod
And how DO they get those ships in the bottles?
To: KneelBeforeZod
Man, that kid wanted that stuffed doggy in the worst way, didn't he? :-)
To: farmfriend; KneelBeforeZod
"Oh My!" Ping
Considering how these "Spend $20 for a $1.00 Straw Filled Stuffed Animal Machines" are a complete rip-off, this kid had a bunch of fun for free.
Still, just how important was this phone call his Father was on not to notice? Is it any wonder how easy it is for creeps to kidnap a child these days?
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posted on
01/04/2004 5:14:42 PM PST
by
bd476
(And the moral of the story: Sometimes it's best not to speculate.)
To: mhking
LOL!!!!
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posted on
01/04/2004 5:16:30 PM PST
by
ConservativeMan55
(You know how those liberals are. Two's Company but three is a fundraiser.)
To: ConservativeMan55
bwahahaha... if that was me my mom would be giving me the evil eye and making ear twisting movements outside the box.
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posted on
01/04/2004 5:17:13 PM PST
by
cyborg
To: netmilsmom
Kiddie PING
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posted on
01/04/2004 5:26:11 PM PST
by
4mycountry
(If you're reading this tagline you have way too much time on your hands.)
To: 4mycountry
"Where there's a will..." No, more like too much "To infinity and beyond...", or whatever the line is from Toy Story.
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