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Boy gets caught in toy-filled 'claw' machine

Gregg Aamot, Associated Press Last update: March 28, 2006 – 5:41 PM

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People surrounded the toy machine at a Godfather's Pizza in Austin, Minn., where this 3-year-old boy crawled inside. KAAL-TV


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Devin Haskin isn't the first little boy to find the inside of a toy machine too enticing to resist.
When the 3-year-old Austin, Minn., boy crawled through the discharge chute of a Toy Chest claw machine at a Godfather's Pizza in his hometown, he ended up on the other side of the glass surrounded by stuffed animals.
Rescuers had to pry the door open to get Devin out, though the boy was in no hurry to leave.
"When we got it open, he didn't want to come out," Fire Chief Dan Wilson said Tuesday. "One of my firefighters had to reach inside and get him. He was happy in there."
Two years ago, a boy crawled inside a toy machine at a Piggly Wiggly in Sheboygan, Wis., and was rescued with the help of a locksmith. Last year, a toddler climbed into a toy machine at a Wal-Mart in Elkhart, Ind. Workers used tools to free the boy.
Ron Morocco, chief executive of Rock Management & Associates, a Spirit Lake, Iowa, company that owns the Godfather's restaurant in Austin, said the machine would be removed until the company talked to the manufacturer.
"We're very happy the young boy wasn't hurt," he said.
An official with Smart Industries Corp., a Des Moines company that makes the toy machine Devin crawled into, didn't immediately return a phone message Tuesday.
To use the toy machine, a player tries to grasp stuffed animals and other toys behind the glass by manipulating overhead claws.
Devin's mother, Heidi Haskin, declined to be interviewed Tuesday.
Wilson said there was a lot of activity at Godfather's on Sunday when the boy got inside the machine. He estimated that 75 to 100 people were in the restaurant when rescuers arrived and that three birthday parties were taking place. But there was plenty of air in the machine and people were taking pictures of Devin. He said the gap Devin squeezed through was about 7 inches by 9 inches.
 

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Man, you would amazed at how toddlers can contort. My 2-year old has an ability to go competely limp, pop his arms out their sockets, and slither out of whatever hold I am using to carry him. I call him rubber boy.
 

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ppeter said:
Man, you would amazed at how toddlers can contort. My 2-year old has an ability to go competely limp, pop his arms out their sockets, and slither out of whatever hold I am using to carry him. I call him rubber boy.

should call him houdini
 

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How come the parents were not watching the kid. It must have taken at least a few minutes to squeeze through the opening.

Once again, a prime example of good parents looking out for their kids.


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ppeter said:
Man, you would amazed at how toddlers can contort. My 2-year old has an ability to go competely limp, pop his arms out their sockets, and slither out of whatever hold I am using to carry him. I call him rubber boy.


HOLY SHITZ NUTS:icon_conf
 

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Strong resemblence to Fishhead don't you think ?:lolBIG:
 

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Insiders said:
ROTFLMFAO....How the heck did that kid get in there?

The chute is big enough that a small kid can climb into it and get inside
Some of those stuff animals are pretty big so the chute needs to be big for the stuff animal to get out when someone wins.
 

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Thanks for the update. I myself was a BIG kid so i never gave that a thought.
 

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Future criminals or just curious toddlers?

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Journeyman said:

Im sure law makers will pass a law that these crane games will have to have a safety device so the inside of the cage cannot be enter by kids from the outside by just crawling through the chute.

Funny Stuff once inside the kids seem to love it.

But where were the parents nice supervision on their part
 

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