Ah, the classic China story: toddlers falling off balconies. I've gotten a bit complacent and let a few of these tales go unblogged, but this one from Zhongshan, Guangdong province has to go up. On March 21 at about 11 pm, a small girl crawled or walked out of her sixth-floor apartment balcony. She clung onto the ledge for dear life. Seeing this, about 10 passersby quickly grabbed a tarp in expectation of c ...

In Dianjiang, Sichuan province recently, a woman and child found themselves trapped on a balcony as a fast-moving fire laid waste to their apartment. It turned into a dramatic race against time for rescue workers, who fought to reach the two before the flames ate them alive. ...

We're not mean people who enjoy laughing at others' misfortune, but if your head gets stuck between railings -- concrete ones, requiring firefighters to be called in, with half a neighborhood watching -- you deserve to be clucked at. Sorry, kid. But you live and learn, and life gets better. Easier? Probably not. But better. Also, you now can empathize with Medieval thieves who were put in the stocks. So the ...

Adults continue to be unable to resist doing noble things for young children in need. Danwei noted yesterday a story that made the front page of Today Morning News: on Monday evening, a man surnamed Liu heard the cries of a young boy outside. He then... ...saw the boy dangling from a third-floor window of the apartment building opposite his, about to fall. He bolted down 6 flights of stairs and scaled the o ...

Jesus. It was only six hours ago that I wrote, regarding balcony railings, "When until — heavens forbid — a young child actually falls through?" At 2:41 pm today, China News posted a video from a Shenzhen TV station (embedded) reporting that yesterday, a three-year-old girl died after falling off a fourth-story balcony. According to the father, who is interviewed in the video, the girl woke up from her nap ...

The anonymous man who rescued a young child last week from a fourth-floor balcony has been tracked down and rewarded 50,000 yuan and a job from the Guangzhou municipality. According to China Daily, which curated content from ycwb.com (assume [sic]'s): Zhou Chong, 23, rescued the little girl falling from the balcony on June 3, but left after she was safe. The local government ordered an all out effort to fin ...

It was only last Sunday that a kid in Guangdong province wandered onto his balcony and fell through a crack, and might have plummeted to serious injury if not for a Good Samaritan who climbed out of his window to help. Two days ago, the exact same thing appears to have happened in Guangxi province. Once again, a young boy falls through a railing -- this time from a window -- and would have slipped through i ...

See update, 6/12. 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 her head -- that is, in the above video, she's not really holding on with hisher hands... she's dangling from his her noggin. Residents who heard the boy's girl's cries called emergency personnel, but ...