Mischievous toddlers need constant supervision and one Irish dad learned that lesson the hard way when he turned his back on his three-year-old son Jamie for just a second and found him trapped in an arcade game.
“We were all having a snack together at a table in the play center and Jamie just got up, as he always does, and made his way over to the amusements,” said dad Damien Murphy, who had brought his five and three-year-old sons to a Jumps ‘n’ Gyms play center one afternoon.
“Within about 10 seconds of him just leaving my sight to the left, I heard a muffled complaint. I looked up and he was behind the glass of the machine.”
“He was calling to me because he realized he had got himself in a spot of bother,” Murphy said. “When I got up from the table, I just said out loud, ‘Of course, you’re in there.’ I then tried to maneuver him out but to no avail. It was then I informed the staff of what happened and they went looking for the key to the machine. They told me they have never seen any child do this.”
“Luckily there was an off duty Fireman there who told me a good 90% of his job is getting kids out of situations like this. He told Jamie to crouch down and move back into the machine and then he was able to shimmy him out,” Murphy said about his son, who managed to take two toy dragons from the machine.
“He’s kind of a walking Murphy’s law. Whatever can go wrong will go wrong with Jamie — just because he’s so inquisitive and such a little boundary pusher,” Murphy said.
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