Brisbane, Feb 2 (AP) Australian police came to the aid of a 3-year-old boy after he became trapped inside a claw machine at a suburban shopping mall on Saturday.

Queensland Police shared a video of the unusual rescue on social media Thursday. It showed the toddler sitting inside the glass-walled box filled with plush toys, blissfully unaware of his predicament.

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The boy's father, Timothy Hopper, said his son had disappeared into the claw machine's prize dispenser and inside it in a "split second."

“I had zero chance to react to it, it was unbelievable how fast he climbed up there,” the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported Hopper saying.

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The video then shows the officers and the boy's parents encouraging him into a safe corner at the back of the machine and to cover his eyes, while the police shattered a glass panel to free him unharmed.

The video ends with one of the officers joking with the boy saying “you won a prize. Which one do you want?” (AP)

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