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Electronics store employees pitch in to buy Nintendo for boy

Electronics store employees pitch in to buy Nintendo for boy | iNFOnews.ca
FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2012, file photo, the new WiiU console is seen during a demonstration at the 2012 International CES tradeshow in Las Vegas. WABC-TV reported Dec. 11, 2016, that a Long Island group of Best Buy employees has come together to buy a Nintendo system for a boy who frequently visited the store to play video games. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)

VALLEY STREAM, N.Y. – Employees at a New York electronics store have come together to buy a Nintendo system for a boy who frequently plays video games there.

The Best Buy employees are seen presenting a $300 Nintendo WiiU (WEE’-yoo) to the boy at the Long Island store in a video that WABC-TV reports (http://7ny.tv/2hIRSBt ) was posted online by store manager Rahiem Storr.

The boy appears to have been left speechless after being given the early Christmas gift. The employees also bought him a game and gave him a ride to make sure he brought the system home safely.

Storr tells the station that he saw a bit of himself in the boy. He says the employees figured if they were able to give him something, “why not?”

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