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sabertooth1217
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Location: Texas
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 Sun May 22, 2005 2:37 pm Boy Gets Trapped Inside Vending Machine |
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| Quote: | (05-21) 08:29 PDT Elkhart, Ind. (AP) --
A 3-year-old boy upset that his mother wouldn't let him use a crane vending machine to try to win a small stuffed animal took matters in his own hands. He climbed up the chute to get the prize himself.
Danielle Manges said she took her eyes off her son, James, for a moment to pick up a juice bottle he threw. When she looked up, he was in with the plush toys.
"I bent over to clean it and within two seconds he had climbed through the hole, into the chute and pushed the door shut so we couldn't get him out," she said. "He climbed up in the toys and was in there for a good hour."
Manges said James has been sick and sleeping odd hours so they went shopping about 3 a.m. Thursday at a Wal-Mart in the city some 15 miles east of South Bend. She let the boy play on some of the rides, but wouldn't give him money for the vending machine.
At first, Manges thought it was funny.
"He was playing with all the toys and hanging from the bar like a monkey," she said.
Manges said people leaving the store went back inside to buy disposable cameras to take photos of her son. She bought one herself.
She became upset, however, when Wal-Mart employees said they did not have a key to let James out. So Manges called the fire department for help.
"I expected his hand to be caught in the machine but it was his entire body in the machine," firefighter Anthony Coleman said. "He was swinging from a bar, jumping around. He was having a ball."
About 40 people watched as the firefighters removed the back of the machine and freed him.
James still came up empty handed.
"He definitely didn't get a toy after that," Manges said. |
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2005/05/20/national/a132119D01.DTL
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madlilnerd
Duchess of Dancemat
Joined: 03 Aug 2004
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Location: Slough, England
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| Sun May 22, 2005 2:44 pm |
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Clever kid!!! I never thought of doing that!! 
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Kyle Reese
Cadet Gunnery Sergeant
Joined: 21 Apr 2003
Posts: 5672
Location: The United States of America
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| Sun May 22, 2005 3:28 pm |
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^He still didn't get anything 
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madlilnerd
Duchess of Dancemat
Joined: 03 Aug 2004
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Location: Slough, England
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| Sun May 22, 2005 3:30 pm |
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How come they didn't have the key? How did they put the toys in without the key?
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Hitchhiker
Rear Admiral
Joined: 11 Aug 2004
Posts: 3514
Location: Ontario, Canada
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| Sun May 22, 2005 3:33 pm |
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| madlilnerd wrote: | | How come they didn't have the key? How did they put the toys in without the key? |
They probably don't. The company that owns the machine probably comes and delivers the toys, just like vending machine companies do.
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madlilnerd
Duchess of Dancemat
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Location: Slough, England
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| Sun May 22, 2005 4:19 pm |
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Oh, okay.
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AndrewBullock
The Misguided One
Joined: 04 Jun 2004
Posts: 2112
Location: Kentucky. (North America)
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| Sun May 22, 2005 8:03 pm |
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THis is something you don't hear every day. Thats rather intresting. Wish I would have thought of that back in the day
~Andrew
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Lord Borg
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Joined: 27 May 2003
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Location: Vulcan Capital City, Vulcan
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| Mon May 23, 2005 3:11 am |
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Interesting indeed. and still empty handed
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nadia
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Joined: 08 Apr 2005
Posts: 8560
Location: Australia
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| Mon May 23, 2005 3:14 am |
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It's kinda funny
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harrykims#1fan
Fan Girl Muskateer
Joined: 08 Feb 2002
Posts: 2916
Location: Leicester UK
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| Mon May 23, 2005 5:13 am |
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LOL thats actually quite funny, sumthin i've never heard of before,
i wonder what his mum said when she got him home
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webtaz99
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Joined: 13 Nov 2003
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Location: The Other Side
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| Mon May 23, 2005 7:11 am |
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I hate those machines. The ones around here look like school busses. The game teaches kids to stand in front of them. Madness!
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Jeremy
J's Guy
Joined: 03 Oct 2002
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Location: Aberdeen, Scotland
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| Mon May 23, 2005 8:51 am |
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I can't even get my hand into them! Lucky little kid,
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