A pub in New Zealand has declared itself no longer a “gaming venue,” after the devastating discovery of a toddler crying in a capsule on the footpath outside while his mother was playing on a pokie machine was made.
The owner of Rawene Masonic Hotel, Glen Dick, heard a crying baby outside, minutes after “a young local girl [walked] in one early afternoon … and [asked] if she can get $20 out by EFTPOS.” He obliges with her request and she then continues into the gaming room.
“I walk to the front door and look out. With nothing to see there, I proceed to our other entry and to my amazement/disgust, there on the footpath, outside our hotel is a baby capsule with a toddler in it.”
A toddler was crying outside the pub in Northland, north of Auckland. Screenshot via Google Maps
