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jrjo
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 Posted: 01/05/04 - 19:14 Post subject: More Wisconsin happenings
| Quote: | Boy Gets Stuck in Animal Game Machine
Mon Jan 5, 8:43 AM ET
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. |
Locksmith?! Was the guy too cheap to drop in a couple quarters and pluck 'em out? 
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Mary Poppins
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Posted: 01/05/04 - 19:19 Post subject:
If it had been my son I think I would have considered him there, I'd be so 
Even a 7 year old should KNOW BETTER!!
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runaroundsue
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Posted: 01/05/04 - 19:23 Post subject:
I'm looking at my 7 yr old (whom is small for his age). I can't see him fitting up the chute?!!!!
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Noley
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Posted: 01/05/04 - 19:26 Post subject:
Is this for real???? 
I just cannot fathom it.
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runaroundsue
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Posted: 01/05/04 - 19:32 Post subject:
| nolefan85 wrote: | Is this for real????
I just cannot fathom it. |
only in Sheboygan...home of the brat and you all thought we were talking sausage!!!!!
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purple hayes
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Posted: 01/05/04 - 19:48 Post subject:
Should have just grapped his head with the little claw and dropped him back down the chute.
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crazyfrog
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shelflifers
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Posted: 01/06/04 - 12:49 Post subject:
I can't tell you just HOW proud I am right here...right now...that I'm from this state.
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rolling rock
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Posted: 01/06/04 - 13:21 Post subject:
he desperately had to go to the bathroom? 
i hope they checked the glass box thoroughly after his rescue. imagine finding that with the claw 
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robp
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Posted: 01/06/04 - 13:31 Post subject:
| rolling rock wrote: | he desperately had to go to the bathroom?
i hope they checked the glass box thoroughly after his rescue. imagine finding that with the claw |
Look Mom! Look Mom! I won a.... a.... waaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh I won a turd!
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sonnylax
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Posted: 01/06/04 - 13:33 Post subject:
| purple hayes wrote: | | Should have just grapped his head with the little claw and dropped him back down the chute. |
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runswithscissors
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Posted: 01/06/04 - 13:39 Post subject:
Did they at least give him the stuffed puppy he was after?
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shelflifers
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Posted: 01/06/04 - 13:39 Post subject: Re: More Wisconsin happenings
| purple hayes wrote: | | Should have just grapped his head with the little claw and dropped him back down the chute. |
SCREW the kid! For my 50 cents, I want that Red little devil cow to the left of him! 
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shelflifers
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Posted: 01/06/04 - 13:41 Post subject:
| robp wrote: | | rolling rock wrote: | he desperately had to go to the bathroom?
i hope they checked the glass box thoroughly after his rescue. imagine finding that with the claw |
Look Mom! Look Mom! I won a.... a.... waaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh I won a turd! |
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akern
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Posted: 01/06/04 - 14:17 Post subject:
| robp wrote: | | rolling rock wrote: | he desperately had to go to the bathroom?
i hope they checked the glass box thoroughly after his rescue. imagine finding that with the claw |
Look Mom! Look Mom! I won a.... a.... waaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh I won a turd! |
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