A toddler reported missing in Nebraska was reunited with his mother after being discovered inside the claw machine at a nearby bowling alley.

The three-year-old’s mother called the police after her son disappeared from their apartment in Lincoln, Nebraska.

At nearly the same time, employees at Madsen’s Bowling Alley nearby were also in touch with authorities to report a toddler found inside their claw machine along with the stuffed animals.

Almost impressed by the boy’s ingenuity and flexibility in finding his way into the machine, Jim Lakey from Value Vendor Services was able to free the child and reunite him with his mother, with the machine owner giving the boy one of the toys from the machine as a present.