Boy gets stuck in a claw machine at bowling alley in Nebraska

A BOY has been freed after he crawled into a vending machine and got stuck inside it with a bunch of toys at a bowling alley.

This boy ... was freed after he crawled into a claw machine in Nebraska. Picture: Supplie

A BOY has been freed after he crawled into a vending machine and got stuck inside it with a bunch of toys at a bowling alley.

He first went missing from his home in Nebraska in the US, leaving his mother in distress as police started their search for him, KETV.com reports

During the search, patrons at a local bowling alley alerted police after they found the three-year-old inside the machine with stuffed toys.

Curiosity ... the child crawled into the claw machine from underneath. Picture: Supplied

The bowling alley’s staff called the vendor, who came and opened the machine to let the boy out.

The boy was fine, and was reunited with his mother.

He’s not the first, and probably will not be the last child to get stuck in a machine like this.

There have been many cases of curious children crawling into vending machines, some of which have been documented in an online blog called ‘Caught in the claw.’

Another boy crawled into a machine at a bowling alley last year, and received a public dressing down by his mother after being banned from the alley.

But wait, there’s more.

Aiden Moore, who was celebrating his fourth birthday got trapped inside an arcade machine when he crawled in to try and grab a teddy in Devon two years ago.

Noah from Ballarat in Victoria got caught in a machine and handed out toys he found inside to onlookers before he was freed in 2012.

In 2011, another three-year-old boy was trapped in a machine at a shopping centre on the NSW Central Coast.