Chuck E. Cheese is the place where a kid can be a kid. And where an adult can be… a cautionary tale.
Last Thursday in California, an unidentified woman decided she just had to try a kids’ game called Snow Day. It’s a small room where fake snowballs rain down, and kids try to grab them and toss them into a hole before the clock runs out. Unfortunately, this woman took “get the ball in the hole” a little too literally and ended up putting her entire arm in there. 🧐
And it wasn’t coming out.
Firefighters had to be called, and it took them 22 minutes to free her… probably because they had to keep stopping to wonder, “How… exactly?” She was fine afterward and even stayed to enjoy the rest of her visit, which is bold. (Most of us would have ghosted the place and started a new life in another state.)
No one knows exactly why she reached into the hole… Confusion about the rules? Retrieving a ball? Spontaneous lapse in judgment?
But Chuck E. Cheese shut down the game until technicians could make sure that no other grown-ups were going to “Winnie the Pooh” themselves into it.
A spokesperson emphasized the game is perfectly safe, adding that the “young adult” was “playing one of the games intended for children” and chose to stick her arm in “a hole not intended for hands or arms.” Which is corporate-speak for “we design our games for pre-teens, not adventurous adults with bad ideas.”
Naturally, a crowd of smartphone-wielding onlookers filmed the whole ordeal. The video went viral, making her the latest entry in the internet’s ever-growing library of “Adults Stuck in Things They Shouldn’t Be In.”