I'll just go after the stuffed animal this way!

Go here to watch the Youtube video.

This happened in the local fish camp where we eat occasionally.

LOL at the dude that was more focused on cleaning the windows than on the drama at hand! I would totally have been freaking out!

All that and she still didn't get a toy!

I was thinking the same thing If i had done that I would have atleast tossed the one that caught my eye down the chute

I love how it took her sister (?) two times to get mom to notice the little one wasn't with them. Sadly, there seems to be a lot of women like that these days, where the kids are secondary to what occupies their mind.

By Gregory A. Summers - Features Editor

FORT LAWN – When Sarah Robertson followed her husband, Donald, out the front door of Catawba Fish Camp on Jan. 18, with daughter Kaitlin, 4, tucked in her arms and daughter Kelly, 6, in tow, she vowed on the way back to Rock Hill that their only visit to the popular restaurant would be their last.
“This was our first time down here, and I said we’d never come back again,” Sarah said.
But Sarah was wrong.
No, it wasn’t the food, that her husband, Donald Robertson, said was excellent, nor was it the service.
It was the embarrassment of what Kaitlin did as the family left that had them wanting to hide.
Captured by the restaurant’s surveillance system, Kaitlin climbs inside and then out of a “Prize Time" machine loaded with stuffed animals and sports memorabilia near the front door.
The footage of Kaitlin’s antics has become the rage of the Internet on Web-viewing sites, having generated about 500,000 “hits” in the last week.
There was no place left to hide when the TV show “Inside Edition” came to Lancaster this week to film a segment on the Robertsons that aired Thursday night on ABC.
“I think Kaitlin trumps the president,” said Catawba Fish Camp co-owner Dr. Malcolm Edwards, referring to a campaign stop President George W. Bush made here eight years ago. “Everybody I talk to knows about it.”
Someone from “Inside Edition” saw the Internet video and sent a crew here Tuesday night to film what was originally conceived as a 2-part segment in an effort to identify Kaitlin, said IE corespondent Megan Alexander.
However that changed when April Faulkenberry called The Lancaster News on Wednesday morning and identified the Robertsons.
She said her mother and Donald Robertson’s mother are first cousins. Faulkenberry said after a recent conversation, the family was able to put all the pieces together.
“We had all watched it before we knew it was them,” she said.
Edwards said the restaurant intended to give the Robertsons a copy of the tape that shows Kaitlin climbing in and then back out of the 9-inch diameter hole with the help of her mom and fish camp employee Lacey Driver.
Driver said Kaitlin got inside the machine so fast that no one had a chance to stop her.
“I thought, ‘we’re in trouble,’” Driver said. “When I looked over, I saw her feet and the next thing I know, she was gone and you saw her head pop up.”
The trouble was that no one at the fish camp had a key to get Kaitlin out, since it was serviced by an outside vendor.
They unplugged the machine to keep the little girl from possibly getting shocked.
Instead of climbing back down the chute, Kaitlin climbed all the way inside of the machine and started playing with the crane arm and toys.
“You would think the child would have been terrified, but I guess she wasn’t with all the stuffed animals in there around her,” said Margaret Edwards, wife of fish camp co-owner Bobby Edwards. “It’s a mom’s natural reaction to want to help her child.”
Sarah said she thought that Kaitlin had followed her dad out the door and that Kelly was trying to talk her into a toy before she saw Kaitlin’s head pop up inside the machine.
“This is her first time doing anything like this,” Sarah said. “Now whenever we go somewhere there’s a machine, we keep her as far away as possible.”
Driver said she didn’t panic because Sarah didn’t panic and was able to coax her daughter back down the chute to get out.
However, Driver said what the video doesn’t show is that a crowd had gathered just out of camera range to watch Kaitlin’s rescue.
“It was kind of funny and scary at the same time,” Sarah said. “It was either stay calm and try to get her out or get scared and call 911 to get some help.
“I got her out and then we got out of town,” she said.
Fish camp co-owner Bobby Edwards said the owner of the machine was called the next day and came here to modify the chute so what Kaitlin did couldn’t happen again.
“We now have a key for it, too,” Bobby said.
Identifying Kaitlin
While the video took on a life of its own on the Internet, Donald said he didn’t know about it until a fellow church member at Garden Sanctuary Church of God in Rock Hill told him after Sunday’s morning worship service.
When he told Sarah about it, she didn’t believe it.
“I’ve been known for telling a tall tale or two, and Sarah thought I was pulling her leg,” Donald said.
That changed Tuesday afternoon.
The Robertsons don’t have Internet access at home, so Donald said they went to the York County Public Library to watch it.
“Those girls are my heart and joy,” he said of daughters, Kaitlin and Kelly, who is in the video, too. She’s (Kaitlin) my little stick of dynamite.”
However, Donald said they didn’t know until Wednesday morning that Kaitlin’s adventure in the machine had caused such a national stir and “Inside Edition” was trying to track them down.
“Are you really serious?” he asked. “We had no idea.”
The Edwards family treated Sarah, Kelly and Kaitlin to supper Wednesday, gave them $1,000 and a copy of the video, which has garnered the 57-year-old business the national limelight, too.
Malcolm Edwards also unlocked the machine to let Kaitlin climb inside and choose a few toys.
Kelly got an armful of stuffed animals, too.
While restaurant patrons didn’t know Kaitlin, they know of her exploits.
Most of them, like Terry Latham and Doug Freeman, knew exactly what was going on as soon as they saw the cameras and lights.
“My cousin has seen it and told me because she knows we come down here all the time,” Latham said.
And after Thursday’s “Inside Edition,” a lot of others know who Kaitlin is.
She can’t hide any more.
“I like the fish camp,” a grinning Kaitlin said as she gobbled down a hush puppy. “It’s my favorite place.”
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And the dad is at no fault because child-rearing is a female duty, yes?



Of course I was not there; but, I do know kids do crazee things. I am thinking her mom was cool-headed and managed the situation as best she could.