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Electronics store employees pitch in to buy Nintendo for boy

Dec 13, 2016 | 6:15 AM

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?”