A small child in Guangdong province slipped out into his family's fourth-story balcony on Sunday morning, then slipped through a crack. Luckily, the crack was just narrow enough to catch his head — that is, in the above video, he's not really holding on with his hands... he's dangling from his noggin. Residents who heard the boy's cries called emergency personnel, but while waiting, some opened up a big bedsheet underneath to catch him should he fall, while a man (identified simply as "yellow-shirted man") climbed out from his third-story window and tried to push the child up. Dramatic, all.

The incident is being used as a cautionary tale by news media here for parents to pay more attention to their children.