Today February 28,2016 Crews were called to Lonsdale Street about lunchtime. It was about a 4 year old boy with his hand stuck in a vending machine. New anti-theft flaps have been placed into vending machine to keep people from stealing items out of them. Rescuers worked hours on end to take and cut the machine to pieces to free the young boy. He was in such distress that people around were reporting that they could hear his screams and whines from the streets. Its a good thing that a man walking by saw that the boy was in distress and he gave the boy his smart phone so he could watch his cartoons. But later he had to be sedated. Later that night he was freed and taken to Royal Children's Hospital in stable condition. The boys father Aaron Shorthouse reported that the boy had never seen a vending machine before and didn't understand how it worked. So, he attempted to get candy off of the bottom row of candy. In the process he got his hand stuck. He went home around to tell his mom about his experience. He has abrasions on his arm where his arm was stuck.
Questions:
1) If you were in the boys position how would you react? Why?
2) Would you be afraid to touch another vending machine after this experience? Why or why not?
3) If you were the boys parent what would you do?
Opinion: If I were the parents of this kid, I would do everything in my power to help I'm get free. Yes I would be afraid to touch another vending machine, because of of the past experience with the vending machine. If was in the kids shoes I would yell for help and when I'm getting help I would cry because I would be in pain.
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Again, interesting story but you only replied three times for this story.
I would completely freak out if I had my arm stuck in there. I would position my feet up against the vending machine and pull fiddle around with it until my arm got unstuck. I would not be afraid to touch another vending machine due to the fact that it wasn't the vending machines fault. If I were the parent I would lecture my child not to do foolish things.
I would do anything to get my arm out of the machine. I would be afraid if I didn't know how they worked. I would be embarrassed as a parent if my kid did something like that. You would think the parent would stop the kid.
Why would you be embarrassed to the the parents of the kid? The kid did not know how to work a vending machine and has never seen one be for in his life.
I would definitely cry and be so scared mainly because I'm only 4 years old. I wouldn't be afraid to touch another vending machine because I know not what to do the next time. I would ask him why he made the foolish decision and why he would ever think of doing that.
If I was 4 years old and my hand had got stuck, I would freak out and be very terrified. I don't think I would try to get snacks from under the vending machine, but I would still get snacks from the vending machine. I would be terrified if that was my son. I would call for help and maybe after the experience, I will just laugh it off.
I would probably try to help the kid but not really sure how I would do so. I am having a hard time believing that the kid has never seen a vending machine.
I would probably be terrified, but he's 3, he's not going to remember it. If I was one of the parents, I would probably just call for help and eventually see it as an experience that we could laugh at.
I agree he most likely won't remember it, but the parents will always remember it and can tell him when he gets older. It would be funny looking back on the this experience and laughing about it.
In the same way cause they're people I have no idea of who they are so yeah. Nope because that would only happen if the same mistake happen twice. Make sure that he doesn't try and stick his arm in another vending machine.
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