Its amazing what you can find in arcade grab machines!

Biggins · 13-03-2010 5:08pm #1

Toddler trapped in lolly machine after climbing in for sweets

An Australian toddler was so determined to help himself to sweets from a lolly machine that he climbed through the tiny dispensing hatch, ending up imprisoned inside four walls of glass.
Cohen Stone, 2, climbed inside the claw grabber machine in an Italian restaurant, where his mother, Kyra, 24, had brought him to celebrate a friend's birthday.

Kyra, from Perth, in Western Australia, said: "I had been playing with him in the children's area but took my eye off him for two minutes as the food arrived at our table. "When I turned back, he was inside the machine. My first thought was "Oh my God."
"I just couldn't believe what he had done in that space of time. He was there one minute, inside it the next, like a magician's trick.
She added: "The hole was tiny. I have no idea how he did it. That's when I started to panic. I didn't know how I was going to get him out."

A local locksmith was called to Siena's restaurant to free the little boy, who was released 45 minutes later.
Mrs Stone said she had trouble convincing her husband the story was true.

"I phoned my husband Calan but he thought I was joking. He kept asking me to repeat what I was saying. It was only that I was so upset that he realised I was not having him on," she said.
She added: "I took the video of him when he was calm and after I knew we were able to get him out.
"I'm glad I took photos now - even though I was panicking at the time. No one believes me until they see the video and it will make a great story."

Siena's has now removed the machine from the restaurant and has given the Stone family a £30 voucher.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7431114/Toddler-trapped-in-lolly-machine-after-climbing-in-for-sweets.html

I've actually heard of this happening before. Not the first case I've come across.
Mad stuff! :eek:

missingtime · 13-03-2010 5:11pm

Some old pervert outside it with a bag full of change.

brianthebard · 13-03-2010 5:24pm

My cousin got an ipod from one of those machines before.

mikom · 13-03-2010 5:25pm

brianthebard wrote: »

My cousin got an ipod from one of those machines before.

If he managed to get the child it would have been an IPOOD.

phasers · 13-03-2010 5:28pm

I can't understand the logistics of this.

That must be the smallest 2 year old in the world... or he has no bones

(also I won an amazing laptop in one of those machines last year :cool:)

PCPhoto · 13-03-2010 5:34pm

jaysus - they start teaching them criminals at a young age.... 2yrs of age - already breaking into sweet machines to steal sweets.

the kid has a long career ahead.

EDIT: All I got from that machines is a load of teddy bears.

tricky D · 13-03-2010 5:42pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MxcUlJZlp8

Hank_Jones · 13-03-2010 6:00pm

I got a cuddly toy...

I got a toy airplane...

I got a little board game...

Ehhh...I got a two year old child, wanna swap?

Duggy747 · 13-03-2010 6:05pm

Bah, kids are so hard to get from those machines anyways. The claw is always too loose to go around their head or they're stuck between a sailor snake and a leprosy lion teddy!