A three-year-old boy, left to his own devices, decided to climb over his grandparent’s balcony, six storeys up.

His grandmother was out shopping for groceries.

Luckily for him, there were some quick-thinking people on the ground below.

Video footage from state broadcaster CCTV shows the child dangling off the balcony in the Chinese city of Chongqing. He tries to climb back up, but slips and is left holding onto the edge.

CNN with more:

“I looked up and saw a little child was dangling up there. My first reaction was to find something to catch him. I thought about rushing over there and catch him with my bare hands, but that would not have worked,” Zhu Yanhui, who works for the property management company, told CCTV.

“I held out the blanket along with others, all the while keeping my eyes on the child. I looked at the blanket wondering whether we could catch him safely. My only thought was to keep him safe.”

Here’s what happened next:

Yep, he fell six storeys but landed safely in the blanket.

“I was there at the moment and helped hold out the blanket. Ten seconds later, the boy fell. It all happened so fast,” said Zhou Xiaobo, who also works for the property management company, CCTV reported.

A neighbour took the kid to the hospital, but he was uninjured.

He’s probably learned a valuable lesson about gravity, though.

[source:cnn]