Missing toddler found in claw game machine

The claw!

A Nebraska toddler went missing on Monday and was found in a bowling alley — trapped inside a toy-vending claw machine.

The 3-year-old was able to squeeze his way into the machine through the small prize slot, reports KLKN-TV in Lincoln.

He was oblivious to the commotion going on around him and focused on the treasure trove of cheap toys, according to Rachell Hildreth, a bartender at Madsen’s Bowling and Billiards.

“He was just picking up stuffed animals and putting them down where they come out of,” she said.

The little boy’s mother called police after she came out of the bathroom and realized her son was missing.

That’s when a customer at the bowling alley, located right across the street from the apartment complex where the boy lives, told cops that the tot was safe and sound in the arcade.

The owner of the machine, Jim Lakey, opened it with a key and got the boy out.

Fortunately, the 3-year-old escaped the toy haven without injury and was gifted with a stuffed toy from the machine.