Kid's Hand Caught in Candy Machine
BLITZER: Machines filled with candy and stuffed animals probably every child's dream come true until they get stuck inside. It happened to one child recently on a quest for gumballs but it isn't the first time. Here's CNN's Jeanne Moos.</s>JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This 2-year-old wanted to chew some gumballs. Instead the gumball machine swallowed his hand or as his dad put it --</s>TERRELL PARKS SR., FATHER: I turned my back for one minute, they were trying to get some gun out of the gum machine, and his hand was stuck up in there completely man.</s>MOOS: His cheeks were wet with tears as the Texarkana Fire Department came to the rescue of Terrell Parks Jr.</s>VINCENT JOHNSON, TEXARKANA FIREFIGHTER: Initially we did not have a plan. We were hoping that we would come in and it would be as simple as putting some oil or something on it and sliding it out. It wasn't that simple.</s>MOOS: Turns out they had to break the plastic and disassemble the mechanism. (on camera): You mean there were gumballs all over the floor?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All over the floor.</s>MOOS (voice-over): All over the floor, not counting the ones in Terrell's hand.</s>MOOS (on camera): At one point during the rescue the kid got some gumballs in his fist but he refused to open his fist and give up the gumballs. (voice-over): Firefighters had to coax him so they could get his hand out.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Open your fist. Open your hand.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Let the gumball go.</s>MOOS: Which he finally did.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There you go, buddy.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Great.</s>MOOS: No injuries to the hand.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Does that hurt?</s>MOOS: But the best kid stuck in a toy machine video ever features a girl who climbs head first into the door where the prize normally comes out in one of those claw machines like the one in "Toy Story".</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I have been chosen. Farewell my friends. I go on to a better place.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Gotcha!</s>MOOS: Once the girl disappears up the hole, another kid tells mom and his mom goes for help. The little girl pops up amid all the toys. Mom spends some time trying to retrieve her by the feet and knocking on the window but the girl keeps climbing the mound of toys. (on camera): Whatever you do, mom, don't try to shake her out. (voice-over): Actually this isn't so uncommon. There are other photos of kids trapped in the belly of a toy machine. Eventually this little girl came out exactly the way she went in, exiting feet first with a little help from her mom. It was as if the vending machine gave birth. Did she leave without taking home a prize? The gumball kid got to keep a few to help him chew over the experience. Jeanne Moos,</s>CNN -- UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Are you ready to go home?</s>MOOS: New York.</s>BLITZER: He's ready to go home. That's it for me. Thanks very much for joining us. I'm Wolf Blitzer in THE SITUATION ROOM. The news continues next on CNN.