January 5, 2007
Men Save Toddler From Four Story Fall
The good news: Heroism may be contagious. Two men walking on Daly Avenue in the East Tremont section of the Bronx caught a three year old boy who fell from a fire escape - on the fourth floor. The NY Times on what Julio Gonzalez and Pedro Nevarez say:
The two men first saw the baby from across the Bronx street, dangling from a fire escape four stories above the sidewalk. His grip was growing weaker by the second. The two men saw only one choice: run over and try to catch him.Neighbors had been watching and yelling for the baby sitter to appear, but it turns out little Timothy Addo sneaked onto the fire escape when his baby sitter Carol Baldwin went to another room to smoke. The police are investigating, but Gonzalez said, "Kids are fast. And things happen so fast." However, another father whose daughter was being watched by Baldwin at the same time told the Times he wasn't sending his kids back to be watched by her.They positioned themselves below, arms out. The little boy fell. He glanced off a branch of a tree that was brushing against the fire escape. Then he bounced off the chest of one of the men, who was knocked off balance and could not grab him.
But he landed safely in the arms of the other man, who managed to hold on tight.
Timothy, who is 45 pounds but felt "more than a hundred" to Nevarez who caught him, only had some scratches and bruises; he told the Post, "This morning I want to be Superman. I wanna be Spider-Man." And Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said, "This is a week of heroes in New York."
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Disney and Trump, make sure these guys get something! They deserve it. How many would have just stood there, and yelled for someone else, to do something?
It's Superhero week in NYC!
Not sure who to blame more on this one.
Who hires a babysitter that smokes?
Why was the baby given access to the fire escape?
Wouldn't the babysitter go out on the fire escape to smoke?
How old is this "baby", exactly, if it knew enough/was able to hold onto the fire escape.
I don't think anyone that weighs 45lbs can or should be called a baby, unless its an elephant.
Give them a pat on the back. That's all. If anyone wants to award them...let it be the parents.
All I can think of is the old joke (one that's better as a visual joke) about an NFL player who heroically catches an infant thrown from a burning building. People on the street erupt in such thunderous applause that for a moment the player thinks he's just scored the game-winning touchdown in the Super Bowl.
He then spikes the "ball."
This is a good start to the year. Another case of someone helping out when someone else needed it.
Joke's on him, my check's gonna bounce.
BTW, did I mention Rosie is a pig and I need attention?
I'm glad there are more acts of heroism and that the media is covering it. And while it would be nice that these latest heroes get some kind of reward, it shouldn't be expected.
And this following comment is not to downplay this latest news, but I'm afraid there will be a faked act of heroism in the intervening weeks as someone's attempt to get rewards and media attention. Cynical, yes, but that's my prediction.
Peter: That's not a joke, it's a scene from the Naked Gun. Better yet, the football player in question was O.J. Simpson.
About the babysitter: Wow, just wow. Yeah, so "kids move fast" -- he had enough time to climb out the window, fall over the side and dangle for several minutes, didn't he? How does her complete ignorance of these goings-on - coupled with the fact thtat there were apparenlty NO safety bars on the window - not constitute child endangerment?
Any parent who continues to leave their kids with her is nuts, if you ask me...
It was a three year old, not a baby. Duh. No baby weighs 45 pounds.