Win a baby!

eTruth.com — The Truth Online Edition! — OK. Let’s start with the 3:30 AM visit to WalMart dragging a kid in PJ’s. Is this normal in Elkhart, Indiana? I mean. really!

ELKHART — James Manges II didn’t win a prize. But he was one of them for a while.

Danielle Manges said her 3-year-old son Jimmy has been sick and sleeping odd hours so they went shopping at Wal-Mart, 175 W. C.R. 6, Thursday morning and finished before 3:30 a.m. While they waited for a cab, she let the boy play on some of the rides.

“He got mad because I didn’t have enough money to get a toy out of the vending machine. It was the one with the claw” to grab prizes, she said.

“He threw his juice bottle because he got upset. I bent over to clean it and within two seconds he had climbed through the hole, into the chute and pushed the door shut so we couldn’t get him out. He climbed up in the toys and was in there for a good hour.”

Store employees didn’t know what to do, she said.

“Nobody had a vending machine key, and they told me he was going to have to be in there until like 8 o’clock,” she said.