You know those arcade vending machine things where you put in your money and then manipulate a claw in order to pick up your prize?

Some kid in Wisconsin found a better way to win: he crawled inside the machine.

Unfortunately, he got trapped.

ANTIGO, Wis. (AP) — A toddler who went fishing for a stuffed cartoon character in a vending machine wound up sharing space with the toy inside the game’s plastic cubicle.

Three-year-old Robert Moore tried to scoop out a stuffed replica of SpongeBob SquarePants with the vending machine’s plastic crane on Saturday, but had no luck on his first attempt.

While his grandmother, Fredricka Bierdemann, turned her back to get another dollar for a second try, Robert took off his coat and squeezed through an opening in the machine. He landed in the stuffed animal cube.

"I turned around and looked for him, and he said, ‘Oma, I’m in here," Bierdemann said. "I thought I would have a heart attack."

Store employees couldn’t find a key to the machine, so Robert waited while the Anti-go Fire Department was called.

"He was having a ball in there, hugging all the stuffed animals," Bierdemann said. "He was so good-natured, but I was shaking like a leaf."

This isn’t the first time something like this has happened in Wisconsin.

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So when Morton heard his 6-year-old son, Jonathan, saying a slang and obscene word to friends after his birthday party on Saturday, Morton was more than troubled.

He was incensed.

Morton said his son did not learn the word — a term for sexual intercourse — from his older brother or late night TV. He heard it from a toy.

Morton said he bought his son a police officer set that uttered the obscenity when Jonathan pulled out the nightstick from the utility belt.

“He asked me if I wanted him to arrest me and I said no, (then) he asked me if I wanted to be cuffed and I said (maybe), and then he said, ‘(expletive) don’t make me use my nightstick,’” Morton said. “Without even thinking I said, ‘What did you say?’ So he said it again. To some people that might have been funny to hear a child say that, but I got very, very mad.”

Morton said he has since spent the past few days punishing his son and making apologies to the parents of his son’s friends.

“I’ve had to explain to parents why my son is saying the f-word; it’s horrible,” Morton said. “It’s really a cute little toy; but God forbid, it’s not what I want my kid hearing.”

Morton bought the toy, which is marked appropriate for ages 3 to 10, from the Geoffrey store off Western Boulevard Extension. After realizing the toy’s glitch he took it back — not for a refund but to make the store aware of the malfunction. When he and store employees opened another such set and checked its nightstick, however, it did not include the offensive word. Morton bought the clean version for his son but kept the delinquent twin as proof.