Kid get stuck in vending machine.

carnut04 · #1 08-09-2005, 08:38 PM

ELKHART, Ind. - 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.
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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.

I still don't get how the hell he fit in there.

MagicRat · #2 08-09-2005, 08:44 PM

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Originally Posted by carnut04

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.

What the hell kind of a mother is this?

Her kid goes somewhere he shouldn't, where he might be in danger and all she does is leave him to get a camera???

Oh yeah, it's a mother who thinks its reasonable to wake the kid up and shop in the middle of the night.

The cops should charge her with child neglect.

Muscletang · #3 08-09-2005, 08:48 PM

I don't know whether to laugh or shake my head in disgrace.

Funny shit!

Suislide · #4 08-09-2005, 09:34 PM

he could easily fit. they make the chute very big as some of the plush toys are pretty big as well.

that's too funny. musta been pretty fun for him.

Ridenour · #5 08-09-2005, 09:37 PM

...Wow... that's all... what will they think of next.

Steel · #6 08-09-2005, 10:21 PM

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Originally Posted by MagicRat

What the hell kind of a mother is this?

Her kid goes somewhere he shouldn't, where he might be in danger and all she does is leave him to get a camera???

Oh yeah, it's a mother who thinks its reasonable to wake the kid up and shop in the middle of the night.

The cops should charge her with child neglect.

Oh get over it. IT was a funny situation, i think ANY mother would laugh and take pictures. Yeah, being surrounded by squishy toys is such a dangerous place. And if you read the article, she thought that the store had keys to the damn machine (that would be a reasonable expectaion, but don't put it past wally-world), AND it even states that the kid's been sick and had been sleeping weird hours, so that's why she went at 3 AM.

Zcaithaca · #7 08-09-2005, 10:30 PM

also im not sure if this is possible because most of the modern machines have a door that looks like this >> |\ so that when it lifts up it blocks the hole so noone can reach up and steal toys...in other words...i cant even put my arm up a machine...i cant imagine putting a small child in one

MagicRat · #8 08-09-2005, 10:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Steel

Oh get over it. IT was a funny situation, i think ANY mother would laugh and take pictures. Yeah, being surrounded by squishy toys is such a dangerous place. And if you read the article, she thought that the store had keys to the damn machine (that would be a reasonable expectaion, but don't put it past wally-world), AND it even states that the kid's been sick and had been sleeping weird hours, so that's why she went at 3 AM.

Yeah, I can see the humour in it. If I were there, I might laugh too, but if this were my kid in there, it would definitely not be funny.
Seriously, that mother has the wrong attitude.

FormulaLT1 · #9 08-09-2005, 10:51 PM

I wonder if anyone thought the kid was a prize?

Rally Sport · #10 08-09-2005, 10:55 PM

Yeah.. sex offenders.

But thats funny as hell, must've been fun for him.

jcsaleen · #11 08-09-2005, 10:58 PM

Lmao I know its wrong to laugh but still its great...

lazysmurff · #12 08-09-2005, 11:13 PM

why didnt i think of that when i was still a youngin...wouldve been fun

imtheoneandonlyD · #13 08-10-2005, 02:33 AM

To quote Ron Burgundy," Im not even mad, thats amazing."

Tony Stewart Fan · #14 08-10-2005, 09:00 AM

If I were still a kid, I would have loved to climb up in one of those things.

highteknology · #15 08-10-2005, 09:19 AM

i'd would've spent a whole weeks paycheck trying to grab that kid by the head with that claw in there

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