Turns out he could. But then he couldn't get out.
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His parents wound up calling firefighters in Plano. Fire department spokeswoman Peggy Harrell told a Dallas newspaper firefighters were able to remove the top from the washer and pull out the boy. He wasn't hurt.
The fire department, in a tweet about the Saturday rescue, calls it "extreme #springcleaning."
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