Remember the Chuck E. Cheese slogan, “where a kid can be a kid”? Well, that only works if there aren’t ADULTS messing things up by trying to be kids.
An unidentified woman in California was at a Chuck E. Cheese last Thursday afternoon, when she decided to go inside a kids’ game called “Snow Day.” She got her arm stuck somehow, and firefighters had to come free her.
In the game, kids go into a large phone booth-shaped chamber, and balls drop from the top. You’re supposed to grab the balls, and put them into a hole, within a certain amount of time.
The woman got her whole arm stuck inside that hole, and she was so trapped, she couldn’t move. Unfortunately for her, there were plenty of people around with cell phones. Someone posted the video online, and it went viral.
It took the firefighters 22 minutes to rescue her. She was fine. She even remained at the Chuck E. Cheese with her family.
It’s unclear why she went into the game, or why she stuck her arm into the hole. Either she didn’t know what she was doing, she fell into it, or maybe she was trying to retrieve something that had fallen into it.
In any event, the game was shut down until technicians could look at it.
A Chuck E. Cheese spokesperson said the game does not pose a risk, but that the “young adult was playing one of the games intended for children, and decided to stick their arm in a hole not intended for hands or arms.”
(Here’s an amusing local news report on this chaos.)
(CBS News)
