Colin Lambert
Courtesy Diane O’Neil/Facebook
"I took a bunch of photos," Diane O'Neill tells ABC News of how she reacted when her 18-month-old grandson Colin Lambert climbed inside a claw toy vending machine in Maryville, Tennessee, on Tuesday.
"As long as he was okay, it was funny," she says. "He thought it was fun, like, 'Look what I can do. I'm clever.' He was smiling until he wanted to get out, and then he became unhappy."
It all started, O'Neill says, when she took her eyes off Colin for just a second to check a text message. And the next thing she knew …
"All I could see was his feet. He had already crawled in," she tells NBC station WBIR. "I grabbed his feet and he kicked my hand and got in. Climbed up over the glass partition and sat down in the toys."
O'Neill wasn't too surprised. Colin does things like this all the time, she says. But she got worried about him inside the machine.
"My biggest fear was that he was going to climb back over and try to get back out," she says. "The plastic they had that held the toys in is cracked and broken in several places. I was afraid he was going to try to climb over and get hurt."
Maryville firefighters were called to the coin laundry shop, and extracted Colin in just a few minutes. And they even let him pick out a toy from the machine. (No bad deed goes unrewarded!)
Colin's antics appear to run in the family. According to WBIR, his aunt once locked herself in a bathroom at TCBY Yogurt and had to be rescued by police, and his uncle got stuck in a picnic table and had to be freed by firefighters.
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