A three-year-old somehow got out of his mother's apartment and crawled up into a claw machine, playing with the toys inside, WOWT-NBC reports.
Employees at Madsen's Bowling and Billiards in Lincoln and other onlookers were stunned to see the boy inside:
At the same time police were called to a home nearby on a report of a missing child. According to reports, a 24-year-old woman called 911 when she discovered her 3-year-old had slipped out of her apartment.
She told police that she was in the bathroom when the boy left through an unlocked door.
Meanwhile, Madsen's called police and the vending machine company to come let him out.
Employees said by the time the vending people arrived police had pieced the two situations together.
The boy was freed from the machine without any injury.
According to police, the mother acted quickly and appropriately as soon as she realized her son was missing and there were no indications of neglect.
