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Boy Stuck in Arcade Machine Appears on ABC's "Good Morning America"
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Timmy Novotny
Photo courtesy: Sheboygan Press
By Lisa Manna
A seven-year-old boy and his Sheboygan family appeared on ABC's Good Morning America on Tuesday to tell their side of a story that has a nation buzzing. He is the boy who got stuck inside a grocery store arcade machine.
It was an act worthy of a Las Vegas magic show. While his dad was on a phone nearby, Timmy Novotny somehow squeezed inside a machine at a Piggly Wiggly supermarket last Sunday. Once he crawled through the small opening for dispensing stuffed animals, he realized the door only opened one way. He was stuck inside the glass enclosure.
"I just wanted to go in there 'cause I thought I could slip back out, but I couldn't," Timmy explained.
"I looked around and he was halfway in and his feet were sticking out," his father, Frank Novotny, recalled.
Monday Timmy and his family left for New York City to be interviewed on Good Morning America on Tuesday.
"I couldn't believe what I was hearing, because just to get in there in the first place was amazing. As you can see he's not really small, a two-year-old or a small kid," his mother, Gina Speckman, said.
His mother now calls him "Little Houdini." Like all good magicians, Timmy won't reveal exactly how he squeezed through the eight-inch by ten-inch opening. He'll only say that he just wiggled in.
The Sheboygan Fire Department is still baffled.
"The locksmith came and in no time at all he was able to pick the lock and the entire front door opened up and he came right outside. Never in my 29 years have I seen anything like this," Mark Zittel of the Sheboygan Fire Department said.
And likely he won't see it again.
Timmy said he wasn't scared, even though he spent an hour in the glass case. But the first thing he did when he got out was ask to go to the bathroom.
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