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Okay, so this happened today and I was there...

The local newspaper is reporting it as "yesterday" since the article is for tomorrow, which would make yesterday = today.

"A seven-year-old Mississauga boy was airlifted to hospital yesterday afternoon following a terrifying accident at a Meadowvale grocery store.
Peel Regional Police say the boy sustained two broken legs and other injuries after becoming trapped in the parcel pick-up conveyor belt inside Dominion, at Meadowvale Town Centre, at around 4:30 p.m.

The boy was airlifted to Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children.

Police confirmed last night his injuries were serious, but not life-threatening.

Police say the boy was shopping with his mother when his legs somehow became trapped in the conveyor belt. The belt is used to wheel out groceries to customers in the parking lot.

It took Peel police and Mississauga fire crews nearly 30 minutes to get the boy out to an air ambulance helicopter waiting in the mall's parking lot.

A Dominion customer called 9-1-1 on her cell phone seconds after the accident.

Horrified shoppers and employees watched the dramatic rescue unfold, with emergency crews working feverishly to extricate the boy.

my mom's mad i got bad grades in schoool

apparently to learn, you have to show up for class.
who knew?!?!

the excitement is gone and now i'm just exhausted

Oh my god, Kathy. I hope you didn't see much

AHHH. kathy, that must have been really creepy.

Oh that poor little boy. And yeah, I hope you didn't see much, too. I can't imagine standing there watching that happen and knowing there's nothing you can do to help.

Also... a conveyor belt to get groceries to the parking lot? That's the epitome of laziness. Maybe after this, they'll be taken out of whatever places they're installed in.

Luckily I didn't see too much... I wasn't at the check outs when it happened, I only went to the front of the store when I heard the boy screaming. I can still hear it in my head.

And I'm not sure how he managed to get stuck in there, obviously his mother wasn't watching, and no one else was either.

It was relieving and also heart breaking when they finally got him free and took him out... I cried happy tears and sad tears all at the same time.

Yeah, that's one of those things where it's a relief but it's still horrible.

So glad he's ok (albeit injured), though.

here's a pic from the news story:

<img src="http://www.mississauga.com/images/mi/xtq_pictures/20060328-images/1681.jpg">

See behind the taped off part... that's where I often buy my wine

i used to play with those things when i was little

I have never seen one of those in my life.

I use to play with things like that at the Beer Store when I was little. Also, I once got my fingers caught in the conveyor belt for grocerices. It hurt.

nikki4982 wrote:I have never seen one of those in my life.

oh good, so it's not just me then.

Soozy wrote:

nikki4982 wrote:I have never seen one of those in my life.

oh good, so it's not just me then.

really? wow. People put their buckets of groceries on them, and then they go pull their car up in a circle where the buckets come outside and you pick them up and put your groceries in your car.

I've only ever seen it used by moms with 3 kids and no hands left for carrying groceries, or elderly people.

Rusty wrote:I use to play with things like that at the Beer Store when I was little.

you went to the beer store when you were little?!

Kathy14 wrote:

Soozy wrote:

nikki4982 wrote:I have never seen one of those in my life.

oh good, so it's not just me then.

really? wow. People put their buckets of groceries on them, and then they go pull their car up in a circle where the buckets come outside and you pick them up and put your groceries in your car.

I've only ever seen it used by moms with 3 kids and no hands left for carrying groceries, or elderly people.

That's just bizarre. surely it's not that much more effort to push your stuff to the car in a trolley?

I can't really defend it... I don't use it and see no use for it either. Which is why I hope this incident might make them remove it.

I just never realized we were the only ones that have them!

Soozy wrote:

Kathy14 wrote:

Soozy wrote: oh good, so it's not just me then.

really? wow. People put their buckets of groceries on them, and then they go pull their car up in a circle where the buckets come outside and you pick them up and put your groceries in your car.

I've only ever seen it used by moms with 3 kids and no hands left for carrying groceries, or elderly people.

That's just bizarre. surely it's not that much more effort to push your stuff to the car in a trolley?

its not easy/always possible during hte middle of winter to do that all the time thanks to the snow/slush etc

You know you're life is dull when the highlight of your day is dinner...