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Electric scooter rider uses claw machine arcade as free park and charge station

electric scooter park and charge in claw machine arcade
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A woman in Taichung has been charged after parking her electric scooter inside a claw machine arcade in Taiping District two times, and leaving it to charge overnight. The owner of the claw machine arcade noticed the incident when reviewing security monitor footage. The footage showed the woman riding her scooter into the arcade with two children and another woman late in the evening September 5, leaving it parked and plugged in overnight. The arcade owner uploaded pictures of the

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Man gets stuck after putting arm in claw machine

man with arm stuck in claw machine
Stupid Stuff 
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A man in Tainan city was stuck in an awkward position after putting his arm into a claw machine, in an attempt to grab a stuffed toy that fell into the hatch, but didn’t make it all the way down, Sunday evening. The man, named Du, successfully clipped a large, stuffed, Snoopy doll, and managed to maneuver it into the top of the hatch, but it failed to fall all the way into the retrieval bay. Mr Du called the

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Historical Clinic Gutted to make way for Claw Machines

workers demolish a store front in Xinhua old street
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Cultural heritage workers in Tainan City rushed to save furniture and fittings dating back to the 1930s after workers moved in with jackhammers yesterday to turn the historical property into a claw machine shop. The clinic is located on the west side of the Xinhua Old Street, a section of Zhongzheng Road that was declared a historical precinct in July this year. Tainan City Sin-Hua District Community Association Secretary-General Hsu Ming-yang told reporters that the buildings on the west side

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Toddler Rescued after Crawling into Claw Machine

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Firefighters in Taichung City broke the glass of a claw machine this afternoon, after a three year-old boy climbed into the machine and became trapped. Emergency services received a call from the boy’s distressed mother at 1:07pm. The woman told dispatchers that her son had crawled into the machine when she wasn’t paying attention. A firetruck, one ambulance, and 8 personnel were dispatched to scene. Firefighters tried to contact the machine’s owner, then contacted a locksmith in the neighborhood. The

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