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In Australia a four year old boy reached up in vending machine trying to steal toy but his arm got stuck. BUSTED!
The fire department, paramedics and police were called.
It took an hour to cut open the machine with a hack saw to extract the boy's arm.
The kid is okay but since he was upset so they gave the boy the toy he was trying to steal.
While I understand the boy went through a stressful ordeal, it WAS his own fault, and he WAS stealing.
I think giving him the toy was a terrible mistake.
It teaches that boy and millions of kids around the world that stealing, causing a scene, all that taxpayer money spent for paramedics, a fire truck, police, a damaged vending machine someone has to pay for, worldwide news coverage is all just a heart-warming Norman Rockwell moment.
His family will probably get a reality show contract.
Plus, with all the kids worldwide watching this media story I'll bet there will be "copy cat crimes".
I think the kid should have not been rewarded with a tour of a fire truck, "praised for his bravery", and given the toy (free) he was trying to steal.
Plus, I think the parent should be sued to recover all the costs which must run in the thousands of dollars.
Granted, at least mom said to him, "Next time we get some money and we pay for it."
So do you think I'm being too harsh?
http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_t2...6/pkg-aus-boy-arm-vending-machine.network-ten
The fire department, paramedics and police were called.
It took an hour to cut open the machine with a hack saw to extract the boy's arm.
The kid is okay but since he was upset so they gave the boy the toy he was trying to steal.
While I understand the boy went through a stressful ordeal, it WAS his own fault, and he WAS stealing.
I think giving him the toy was a terrible mistake.
It teaches that boy and millions of kids around the world that stealing, causing a scene, all that taxpayer money spent for paramedics, a fire truck, police, a damaged vending machine someone has to pay for, worldwide news coverage is all just a heart-warming Norman Rockwell moment.
His family will probably get a reality show contract.
Plus, with all the kids worldwide watching this media story I'll bet there will be "copy cat crimes".
I think the kid should have not been rewarded with a tour of a fire truck, "praised for his bravery", and given the toy (free) he was trying to steal.
Plus, I think the parent should be sued to recover all the costs which must run in the thousands of dollars.
Granted, at least mom said to him, "Next time we get some money and we pay for it."
So do you think I'm being too harsh?
http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_t2...6/pkg-aus-boy-arm-vending-machine.network-ten