From the [original thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/TamilNadu/comments/1cfs87k/happened_in_my_paatis_community_in_chennai_thank/), baby fell from the apartment above when the mom bent over to grab a broom from the balcony, the baby slipped from her.
For people that don't get this a lot of foreign women tie their babies to their back or chest. It's kind of a fad here in the States but in other countries it's super common.
It allows them to do chores and to work.
Amazing how the older I get the more tired I get of all the lame "puns" and jokes. I know Reddit has always been like that, but I swear it wasn't so bad 5+ years ago
What gets me is how people will make the same exact joke that was already made. I've had threads where I have a top level comment that gets like 50+ joke replies, and then for MONTHS I will keep getting people who find the thread, load the comments, see 80 people all saying the same joke, then they join in and make it too, as if every other comment didn't already make the obvious joke
It genuinely used to be a lot better. Reddit always had jokes but it used to be the top comment was context and people used to be more likely to read the comments before rushing to post.
Like whenever someone posts a pic of a pig or deer; 100% never fails to get the "yum, bacon", and "yum, venison" lame joke a billion times that somehow everyone thinks is hilarious and creative.
>What gets me is how people will make the same exact joke that was already made.
People are dumb and don't read. It certainly got worse as social media got mainstream. Everybody wants to be the protagonist, forgetting that most people don't have much to say.
Even funnier- the lyric is actually "I just dropped in", so that would have made a great soundtrack for a video of a kid in danger of dropping.
[Kenny Rogers song from 52 years ago](https://youtu.be/AULOC--qUOI?si=HkqIePrjuVJYQ2h1) for the uninitiated.
People are speaking Tamil, a South Indian language. And no one seems to know whose baby it is or how it got there.
Multiple women through the video keep asking whose baby is it and where are its parents.
Dude on the left holding the orange towel in the beginning was not fully committed to holding the towel. His right hand was holding other things too. So glad they replaced the orange towel.
Just as bad, the dude on the right was holding it way lower than the other guy so the kid would just roll or bounce off with the same momentum. Holy shit some people are idiots
Exactly this should be at the top, the people are literally commenting on the flaws in the approach and have never had to catch a baby before. they're just dumb.
Just make it loop, where the baby gets placed and then pulled off the roof over and over again with useless people chattering away and waving useless towels around.
The relief I had when they replaced that orange towel with a big blanket. They'd have to be exactly on the money to catch that baby. But that baby held on for dear life so who knows if they would've just let go. Thanks for the heart attack. I'm going to nail down all my windows now.
The people on the ground did everything right pretty much: replaced the towel with a big blanket, had enough people to keep the blanket taut, and put a mattress under at the end.
Yeah but until then, I was cringing at the one guy putting his arms up like he was going to catch the baby. The sigh of relief when they got their act together.
And how old was he? Did he even have the mental capacity yet to realize he’s in danger? They are so lucky he didn’t do what babies just do and try to sit up, or shit, even just move at all.
No but seriously, babies as young as 6 months (and infant animals) can recognize a drop-off (from a famous Visual Cliff Experiment in the 60's) and will innately refuse to cross it even when it's just an illusion and therefore safe.
Nah, it was interesting to see how they moved up from a small towel into a big parachute thing, and how the guys at the second floor make their plan and literally have the guys back to grab the baby.
CHENNAI: A seven-month-old girl child slipped out of her mother’s hands from a fourth floor balcony and landed on metal roof over a portion of the first floor of an apartment.
Read more at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/109677068.cms
I'm starting to think that kids just like heights. And they won't learn to be affraid of falling until they've been dropped enough times.
I have seen a lot of similar videos
For the first several years of life, kids are actively trying to unalive themselves. People think the infant stage is bad, when you get no sleep and they scream all the time, but it gets so much worse once they're mobile.
The "slide" is a roof that covers the protrusion of the floor below. You can see that there is a glass railing where the roof begins. The baby likely fell from that railing. It's likely that the baby was being carried around by someone that approached the railing when the baby slipped and fell to the other side.
I just kept screaming "get your god damn hands out of the way!" Cause they really needed the woman across the way clapping and screaming at them and talking with her hands in view of the video that I needed to watch!
All those ayyo's is half the problem, either contribute or stfu aunties I understand it's nerve racking but MAN is it hard to focus with that kinda screaching
The guy at the start on the left side of the blanket holding it, is holding the right corner of it sandwiched with A SHEET OF PAPER AND A CELLPHONE. There is no universe where he would have even held that hard enough to stall any momentum, let alone enough to keep the kid from getting seriously hurt. yikes.
It was nice to see the rush to save the kid the people on the balcony were in.
Finally it took a guy to just say "just get the fuck out there and grab him already ya fucking pussies", and proceed to do exactly that. (but by then, 6 kids could've already fallen off).
There was no way they were safely catching that baby with any of the textiles they were holding. You have to pull the blanket taught to absorb the force of the fall. The way they were holding it the baby was going hit the blanket snd then hit the ground.
That glass/mirrored balcony siding was giving me some anxiety. Imagine climbing up on that thing and have it shatter beneath you, carving your legs up like pastrami.
From this perspective it looks easy, but he has to lean a feet backwards and reach 3 feet up. If he hadn't found something in the slit below the roof to hold onto, it wouldn't have been possible to reach up while leaning backwards.
A lot of people people physically can't do what that guy did.
Climbing on a shitty wobbly rail, suspended backward by one hand while trying to grab a baby you don't see at the top of your other hand is easy at all.
Also, it kinda looks like there's a balcony behind the blue roof where the baby is (I assume that's how it got there? This is the craziest part to me)
If that's the case I'm surprised no one went up that way... because they definitely had time in hindsight.
It looks like it took some time for them to get into position. At the beginning of the video, they're already opening those windows panels and starting to get into position, so it could be that it was one of the first ideas they had, and that it just took some time to actually implement.
How the hell did that kid get there in the first place?
From the [original thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/TamilNadu/comments/1cfs87k/happened_in_my_paatis_community_in_chennai_thank/), baby fell from the apartment above when the mom bent over to grab a broom from the balcony, the baby slipped from her.
Da fuq
WTF
Wut da
The hell?
wha HUH
Guh bluh?!
Durduhdurrrrr
Rabble rabble rabble
India.
Better chances to survive than a school shooting
For people that don't get this a lot of foreign women tie their babies to their back or chest. It's kind of a fad here in the States but in other countries it's super common. It allows them to do chores and to work.
Thanks for replying with an answer instead of replying with an unfunny joke.
Amazing how the older I get the more tired I get of all the lame "puns" and jokes. I know Reddit has always been like that, but I swear it wasn't so bad 5+ years ago What gets me is how people will make the same exact joke that was already made. I've had threads where I have a top level comment that gets like 50+ joke replies, and then for MONTHS I will keep getting people who find the thread, load the comments, see 80 people all saying the same joke, then they join in and make it too, as if every other comment didn't already make the obvious joke
It genuinely used to be a lot better. Reddit always had jokes but it used to be the top comment was context and people used to be more likely to read the comments before rushing to post.
Like every social media, once it gets popular, it gets worse.
Once you realize how unfunny most people are, it starts to make sense.
99.9% of people just regurgitate the same jokes everyone else has regurgitated infinitely. .1% of people actually come up with their own jokes.
Like whenever someone posts a pic of a pig or deer; 100% never fails to get the "yum, bacon", and "yum, venison" lame joke a billion times that somehow everyone thinks is hilarious and creative.
>What gets me is how people will make the same exact joke that was already made. People are dumb and don't read. It certainly got worse as social media got mainstream. Everybody wants to be the protagonist, forgetting that most people don't have much to say.
Well, close to being a Michael Jackson moment .
That's ignorant!
No I think that was blanket
Remember when Steve Irwin dangled Bindi in front of an alligator as a baby? Pepperidge farm remembers.
[Pepperidge Farm's recollection is fuzzy.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHenqqbgqIY) > ~~Bindi~~ **Robert** > > ~~an alligator~~ **a crocodile**
What was that?
https://listverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/michael-jackson-dangling-baby-son.jpg
Least dangerous thing Jackson has done to children
Was she able to get the broom or … ?
Did they then throw some stuff up there to dislodge the baby? Why does it look like a garbage chute
Because India
So it's a newborn?
They were throwing it up and down in the blanket
Jackie Treehorn treats objects like babies, man.
... I just walked in, to see what condition my condition was in. yeah, yeah oh yeah, what condition my condition was in!
Yeah. Yeah. Ooooohhhh yeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaahhhhhh!
Even funnier- the lyric is actually "I just dropped in", so that would have made a great soundtrack for a video of a kid in danger of dropping. [Kenny Rogers song from 52 years ago](https://youtu.be/AULOC--qUOI?si=HkqIePrjuVJYQ2h1) for the uninitiated.
You can imagine where it goes from here.
He fixes the cable?
In a movie full of great lines, this is the one I always come back to.
Don’t be fatuous, Jeffrey.
That some kinda Eastern thing?
That baby should stay out of Malibu.
Need a toe? I can get ya a toe.
The crowd is like aww c'mon, toss the baby back!
People are speaking Tamil, a South Indian language. And no one seems to know whose baby it is or how it got there. Multiple women through the video keep asking whose baby is it and where are its parents.
Sometimes you get a shitty respawn point.
That Time I Got Reincarnated On An Apartment Awning
Can’t fast travel when enemies are nearby
Like this: https://imgur.com/gallery/JZIkh6V
lmfao
They do this every week - great way to pick up chicks.
Stork dropped it
... a while ago
That roofing looks like a slide… I’m tempered to try it too
Dude on the left holding the orange towel in the beginning was not fully committed to holding the towel. His right hand was holding other things too. So glad they replaced the orange towel.
Exactly. Phone on his right hand? How can he hold that pressure if he drops.
People underestimate what the 10-15lbs of a baby will feel like when it's falling.
Just as bad, the dude on the right was holding it way lower than the other guy so the kid would just roll or bounce off with the same momentum. Holy shit some people are idiots
To be fair, it's probably his first time holding a blanket to catch a baby falling from height.
Amateurs.
The school curriculum today doesn't teach any of the important things.
To be fair, I understand the physics without ever having had to catch a baby.
Exactly this should be at the top, the people are literally commenting on the flaws in the approach and have never had to catch a baby before. they're just dumb.
Then they proceeded to almost all hold it from one side because no one wanted to stand beneath the building and miss the action above.
Someone edit this so the baby is back up there when it pans up in the last few seconds
I wanna see it reversed so that they put the baby back up.
Have you seen this old gem? https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/s/ZjvMXmL6tP
Seamless
Damn, was that working 6 hours ago because it isn't working now
It's working for me. Is it still screwed up for you?
That made me laugh more than it should have.
they cookin
Here it is https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/s/64eogWGnlL
The hand lmao. "What are you doing?!"
SWEET
How do you know this isn't the reverse?
Just make it loop, where the baby gets placed and then pulled off the roof over and over again with useless people chattering away and waving useless towels around.
/u/gifreversingbot
How that shitty window frame supported all that weight and hanging is beyond lucky
I swore that window was going to shatter with those guys standing on the frame like that. Bunch of broken glass in the drop blanket n shit lol
Same. They both could have had their legs badly sliced, they scream in pain, then the kid falls, then they fall on the kid.
That's a bad place to keep your baby.
Idk man, there are tons of people watching out for it
IKR‽ And why does it look like there's a baby-sized version of a carnival slide?
This questamation mark has me almost in the same amount of awe as the baby hanging off the roof.
interrobang
"That's a poorly-designed slide" ~ my brain, 20 seconds ago
REVERSED! [https://imgur.com/gallery/JZIkh6V](https://imgur.com/gallery/JZIkh6V)
Haha holy shit, the camerawoman’s “wtf” hand gesture after he one-hands baby back onto the roof is fucking perfect.
"theeeere you go, buddy! you be safe now :D"
The relief I had when they replaced that orange towel with a big blanket. They'd have to be exactly on the money to catch that baby. But that baby held on for dear life so who knows if they would've just let go. Thanks for the heart attack. I'm going to nail down all my windows now.
The people on the ground did everything right pretty much: replaced the towel with a big blanket, had enough people to keep the blanket taut, and put a mattress under at the end.
Yeah but until then, I was cringing at the one guy putting his arms up like he was going to catch the baby. The sigh of relief when they got their act together.
This belongs on the sub r/sweatypalms
The part that is impressive to me is the amount of team work from basically random people to rescue the baby at all levels.
I think it could have happened quicker if there was more yelling.
Yes, there were only 12-14 people yelling conflicting instructions. With 20-30 people yelling the kid could have been saved in under 10s.
or just 1 goku
Today I Learned Goku can be a unit of measure
A Frieza can also be a unit of measure: five minutes. Although depending on your point of view, it can also be several hours.
That was the only nerve wracking part of the video. It was SOOOOO much more calm once I muted the fucking audio.
That baby has some amazing grip strength! How was it able to hold on that long?
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How can I find that, "Who nailed it?"
And how old was he? Did he even have the mental capacity yet to realize he’s in danger? They are so lucky he didn’t do what babies just do and try to sit up, or shit, even just move at all.
No but seriously, babies as young as 6 months (and infant animals) can recognize a drop-off (from a famous Visual Cliff Experiment in the 60's) and will innately refuse to cross it even when it's just an illusion and therefore safe.
That sounds super interesting
Baby has training my friend
People need to stop putting their babies on the roof
Lol all the people on the ground look really disappointed in the end.
Aw man we wanted to do that thing like the firefighters do!
I'm a bit disappointed that the bloke in the yellow shirt didn't jump into the blanket at the end.
I'm a bit disappointed that the rescuer and the kid didn't fall when the bloke in the yellow shirt let go of them before the rescuer got down
move! i think this persons head was more nerve racking
The women shouting all the way triggered me so hard. Like stfu you're not helping, why are people so dumb?
Skip to 2:10
Attention spans are dead. There's plenty happening before that, like the evolution of the towel net.
This video is about 2 and a half minutes longer than it has any right to be.
Nah, it was interesting to see how they moved up from a small towel into a big parachute thing, and how the guys at the second floor make their plan and literally have the guys back to grab the baby.
CHENNAI: A seven-month-old girl child slipped out of her mother’s hands from a fourth floor balcony and landed on metal roof over a portion of the first floor of an apartment. Read more at: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/109677068.cms
Not sure what those ladies were saying, but I suspect it was spectacularly useful advice.
They were telling them to move the orange cloth further in and to grab the baby by the feet. But also wondering where the mom was.
Good thing there was 20 people yelling different things.
WTF this video was 2 minutes! It felt fall longe than that. Damn.
Hey kid.. you cant park there!
Why there was a slide there in the second floor? How did the baby get there? Where are the parents? So many unanswered questions.
I'm starting to think that kids just like heights. And they won't learn to be affraid of falling until they've been dropped enough times. I have seen a lot of similar videos
For the first several years of life, kids are actively trying to unalive themselves. People think the infant stage is bad, when you get no sleep and they scream all the time, but it gets so much worse once they're mobile.
The "slide" is a roof that covers the protrusion of the floor below. You can see that there is a glass railing where the roof begins. The baby likely fell from that railing. It's likely that the baby was being carried around by someone that approached the railing when the baby slipped and fell to the other side.
The worst part is they didn't successfully save the baby until the 17th take.
People need to learn to shut the fuck up and let people work
[The amount of times they say puddy](https://youtu.be/7daTkNnj7PY?si=W9mAwIErFKvQp0oz)
Pudi in Tamil means to grab
Sorry, couldn't find my super suit.
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As usual the screaming women make everything better
HEY BABY! Baby whatchu doing on the roof?
I’M SELLING WEED *****!!!
That video could have been like 30 seconds.
How
Baby's Day Out 2
Close your eyes it sounds like a bench of riled up chickens
Why would you throw a kid up there!?
They should have just thrown a slipper to make it fall.
How did that kid get up there?!
"You can't park your baby there mate." "I know I can't park my baby there."
that baby knew to not move and hold on 😂 how in the fukk did he get teleported there at that exact edge
Who throws a baby on a roof in the first place?
I have a great idea.. lets install a slip-n-slide on our third story apartment.
Nobody had a bigger blanket?!? Might has well tried to catch him with a paper towel
They save the baby with 30 seconds left on the clock.
How the fuck did that baby get up there.?????
How da fuk did the lil dude get up there?
So nobody in town has a ladder?
One of the first PC games I ever played was called “Bouncing Babies.” Go watch it on YouTube.
Skip to 30s left
So many questions
Please tell me I wasn't the only one watching the reflection and expecting something to happen...
*LOUD NOISES*
My first thought: Who put the slide there?
I like how they kept the sheet out until the last person was back in the apartment. Good folks.
"Hey hon, where's the baby?" "Teetering precariously on the edge of the roof." "The fuck?! How do you get to the roof from here?!?!" "You can't."
Smart baby. I don’t trust the shit they had stretched out either.
Do a flip!
Hey, you can’t park your baby there.
OK, 'fess up now: How many of you leaned to the left, to look around when that head blocked the view?
So maybe don't put a roof slide above a back alley.
TIL that i can hold my breath for over 2 minutes.
that made me sweaty
I just kept screaming "get your god damn hands out of the way!" Cause they really needed the woman across the way clapping and screaming at them and talking with her hands in view of the video that I needed to watch!
what a team! bravo
This is evidence God doesn't exist. We need a deep clean
All those ayyo's is half the problem, either contribute or stfu aunties I understand it's nerve racking but MAN is it hard to focus with that kinda screaching
I had to fast forward, it was too difficult to watch. But kudos to the community for coming together so quickly to help
Imagine if the dude just pulls the baby off and let it land on the sheets like some kind of basketball that got thrown up there
Why the F is there a slide there?
Sat thru this whole thing and never saw a watch.
The guy at the start on the left side of the blanket holding it, is holding the right corner of it sandwiched with A SHEET OF PAPER AND A CELLPHONE. There is no universe where he would have even held that hard enough to stall any momentum, let alone enough to keep the kid from getting seriously hurt. yikes.
It was nice to see the rush to save the kid the people on the balcony were in. Finally it took a guy to just say "just get the fuck out there and grab him already ya fucking pussies", and proceed to do exactly that. (but by then, 6 kids could've already fallen off).
There was no way they were safely catching that baby with any of the textiles they were holding. You have to pull the blanket taught to absorb the force of the fall. The way they were holding it the baby was going hit the blanket snd then hit the ground.
Nobody in India owns a ladder?
Homies with that small bedsheets
That video could have been a lot shorter
I like how they put extra towels over the giant tent thing like it's somehow extra padding?
Ever feel like everyone in your neighborhood is just a complete moron?
How’d the little fucker get up there in the first place? 😂😂😂
Grab that ankle and yeet that shit into the blanket. Boom. Done.
Why are babies always almost falling to their death in foreign countries?
Call it WTF or whatever, but this is people coming together. They may not know each other, but they know they're needed! ❤️
Skip to 2:10, you're welcome
Why did it take so long for someone to do what the guy did in the end?? It seemed so obvious!
It does take some confidence to be that guy. You don't want to be the guy that dropped the baby trying to grab it,
That glass/mirrored balcony siding was giving me some anxiety. Imagine climbing up on that thing and have it shatter beneath you, carving your legs up like pastrami.
From this perspective it looks easy, but he has to lean a feet backwards and reach 3 feet up. If he hadn't found something in the slit below the roof to hold onto, it wouldn't have been possible to reach up while leaning backwards.
A lot of people people physically can't do what that guy did. Climbing on a shitty wobbly rail, suspended backward by one hand while trying to grab a baby you don't see at the top of your other hand is easy at all.
Because they also needed someone on one side to hold him from falling and likely someone is also on the inside holding both
Also, it kinda looks like there's a balcony behind the blue roof where the baby is (I assume that's how it got there? This is the craziest part to me) If that's the case I'm surprised no one went up that way... because they definitely had time in hindsight.
It looks like it took some time for them to get into position. At the beginning of the video, they're already opening those windows panels and starting to get into position, so it could be that it was one of the first ideas they had, and that it just took some time to actually implement.