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Two curious little girls, an arcade machine filled with colorful prizes and a hole at the bottom of the machine. What could go wrong?
How a toddler ended up inside mall’s toy machine: ‘They could have used the claw to pick her up’ Updated 11:40 AM; Syracuse, N.Y. — The plan was pretty simple. Two little girls wanted one of the colorful prize balls inside a claw machine at Billy Beez in the Destiny USA mall in Syracuse. When 3-year-old Kali Porter realized she was too big to fit into the machine, she enlisted her little cousin, Alivia Porter, who turns 2 in June, said their grandmother Jackie Perez. “Seeing the balls inside the machine was like a trigger for them,” she said. “It only took one second and they w...
‘Tinky’s stuck in the machine!’ How a tiny toddler ended up inside a claw arcade game Updated Apr 23, 2021; Syracuse, N.Y. — The plan was pretty simple. Two little girls wanted one of the colorful prize balls inside a claw machine at Billy Beez — an indoor park with 11 locations on the East Coast — in the Destiny USA mall in Syracuse, NY. When 3-year-old Kali Porter realized she was too big to fit into the machine, she enlisted her little cousin, Alivia Porter, who turns 2 in June, said their grandmother Jackie Perez. “Seeing the balls inside the machine was like a trigger for...