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Fire crews from the City of Greenwood Fire Department rescued a three-year-old boy late Wednesday afternoon after he crawled inside a toy machine at the Greenwood Big Lots. Once the boy crawled inside the machine he was unable to get out on his own.
According to reports from the Greenwood City Police Department crews responded to Big Lots at 5:15 p.m. Wednesday. Big Lots employees called 911 after staff at the store attempted to cut a padlock off the door of the machine but were unsuccessful.
Three (Big Lots employees) tried using our bolt cutters to cut the lock off but they were not strong enough so I had to call the fire department, said Big Lots employee Meagan Fallaw.
While waiting on fire crews to arrive, Fallaw said she sent a bottled Pepsi and some tissue to the boy through the toy chute to try and calm him down. The boy was not injured, only scared and crying after he realized he could not exit the machine the same way he entered.
Big Lots employees say the boys parents were found near the back of the store. A bystander said she believed the boys young sister coaxed him to climb inside the machine to get toys for the two of them.
The Greenwood City Fire Department was able to cut the pad lock off of the machines door to rescue the boy.
http://gwdtoday.com/boys-crawls-inside-toy-machine-gets-stuck-p24088-1.htm
Poor kid! Looks terrified. Where was the parent???
My first thought after seeing the picture was ...
"THE CLAW"
The article calls her his "young sister", but that could mean anything from 2 to 12 years old. I'm willing to bet she's on the older side, since she was presumably too large to climb into the machine herself, and old enough to come up with the idea of sending her little brother up the chute instead.
