Toddler gets stuck after climbing into a claw machine

[Olivia]

Source: https://apnews.com/article/australi...chine-rescue-50de7ff3be56aaf424baf739254d2225

Australian police came to the aid of a 3-year-old boy after he became trapped inside a claw machine at a suburban shopping mall.

Video of the unusual rescue Saturday was shared on social media by Queensland Police on Thursday. It showed the toddler sitting inside the glass-walled box filled with plush toys, blissfully unaware of his predicament.

The boy’s father, Timothy Hopper, said his son had disappeared into the claw machine’s prize dispenser and inside it in a “split second.”

“I had zero chance to react to it, it was unbelievable how fast he climbed up there,” the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported Hopper saying.

The video then shows the officers and the boy’s parents encouraging him into a safe corner at the back of the machine, and to cover his eyes while the police shatter a glass panel to free him unharmed.

The video ends with one of the officers joking with the boy, “You won a prize. Which one do you want?”

Thoughts?

 

[Webster]

*deadpans* Well, wouldn't you know who won the stupid pony prize this week....

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

I'll bet that was scary for that kid.

 

[Juneberry]

Now let's just hope he doesn't do what my cousin did that time she was asked how she got her head stuck in a banister and re-enact the event.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Now let's just hope he doesn't do what my cousin did that time she was asked how she got her head stuck in a banister and re-enact the event.

Did she get stuck again ?

 

[Juneberry]

Did she get stuck again ?

She did, from what I heard. Her mom told me the story- they asked her how she got her head stuck once they got her out, and she literally re-enacted it only to get stuck again. Mind you, this was from before I was born (she's my second oldest cousin, and the only one in our generation with kids herself xD).

 

[EllieCat]

I can just imagine walking by hearing

“Help me! Mommy! I’m stuck in the claw machine trying to get that pony”

Yeah better have that lesson learned.

 

[NeoMetallix]

Smart kid, those claw machines are scams!

 

[Dead2009]

How do you not have enough time to react, unless you were paying attention to something else and not the child in question.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

She did, from what I heard. Her mom told me the story- they asked her how she got her head stuck once they got her out, and she literally re-enacted it only to get stuck again. Mind you, this was from before I was born (she's my second oldest cousin, and the only one in our generation with kids herself xD).

Poor thing, lol

Smart kid, those claw machines are scams!

They are!

How do you not have enough time to react, unless you were paying attention to something else and not the child in question.

Easy to do. When my kid was a toddler I'd look away for a second and she'd be into all sorts of mischief. Lol

 

[MrDawn]

*deadpans* Well, wouldn't you know who won the stupid pony prize this week....

That kid wanted all of the prizes.