Boy gets stuck in vending machine

A SMALL American boy took to extreme measures to win a stuffed toy from a crane vending machine and climbed inside the machine.

Three-year-old James Manges managed to climb up the chute and inside one of the machines in Elkhart, Indiana, swinging around for an hour amid the plush toys he coveted before firefighters freed him.

James’s mother, Danielle Manges, said the pair had paid an early morning visit to a Wal-Mart store in the city because her son had been sick and was sleeping odd hours.