I didn't try to go to it b/c I had already
seen the article last week. Looks like something some kids I know would wind up
trying *and no I'm not talking about my own*
Angela
"I watched with glee while
your kings and queens fought for ten decades for the gods they
made"
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This is the link that Tom forwarded....only AOL members could go to the
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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.
Jeffrey Roland
Debbink
"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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