More fear than harm, and the story is enough to make you smile.
An intrepid 3-year-old managed to get into a “Hello Kitty” clip machine in a shopping center in Capalaba, a suburb of Brisbane (Australia) and the police had to be called to rescue him. get out, reported police in the Australian state of Queensland this Thursday, February 1.
The events occurred this Saturday evening, while the little boy, Ethan, was playing with one of the claw machines made available in the shopping center.
The child's father, Timothy Hopper, told ABC Australia his son was playing with the machine before it suddenly disappeared from view.
“I had no chance to react, it was unbelievable how fast he climbed in there,” he insisted.
“You won a prize, which one do you want?”
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Queensland Police said three-year-old Ethan managed to get into the machine – a machine filled with soft toys, with a claw that you can activate by paying to try to catch one – through the device allowing prices to fall.
The video published this Thursday by the police shows police officers watching the young boy frolicking quietly among the multicolored stuffed animals.
Ethan and the Police: 1
Claw Machine: 0
Police were called in to rescue the adventurous Ethan, who had crawled up into a toy machine at a Capalaba shopping center on Saturday.
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“Police ensured Ethan was at a sufficient distance before breaking a window of the machine to free him,” Queensland Police said.
The little boy seemed “in no hurry to get out” when he was rescued.
“You won a prize, which one do you want?”
» jokes a police officer, lifting the little adventurer, impassive, to free him.