Women Hear Frantic Screams, Look Across Street To See Kindergarten Boy Dangling from Billboard
Children are impulsive, able to get themselves into predicaments they do not realize are dangerous until it is too late.
Many a child has climbed a bit too high in a tree, raced out-of-control down a hill or wedged their small frames into spaces they were unable to escape.
For a young boy in Shaoyang, China, on July 10, curiosity possibly got the best of him when he slipped away from his mother’s supervision and climbed over a balcony wall on the second-story level of a building.
According to Newsflare, the building was a kindergarten school, and the boy’s mother, ironically, was the principal of the school. She was reportedly unaware that her son, around 4 years old, was dangling precariously over the second-story balcony.
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Video footage shows the boy holding on to what appears to be a large billboard attached to the building, making several unsuccessful attempts to pull himself back over the railing.
When bystanders below realized the boy’s peril, a small crowd gathered in concern. Two men climbed a tall metal fence to try and reach the boy, attempting to support his feet.
It appeared the two men may have been coaching the boy to either remain still or jump as the crowd below nervously watched and waited.
A team of three stood on the ground, firmly holding a bed sheet taut, ready to break the boy’s fall should he let go.
In a frightening moment, the boy did fall from the balcony, and to everyone’s dismay, his trajectory was not lining up with the center of the bedsheet, but dangerously far off to one side.
Fortunately, the trio below was paying close attention, and one man who was standing nearest to the boy managed to swing the sheet over with just enough margin to catch him and break his fall.
It was a sigh of relief for the nervous crowd, and likely a major sigh of relief from the boy’s mother, who has a team of kind-hearted strangers to thank for helping her son from a predicament he likely will never forget.
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