Man catches 2-year-old girl as she falls 3 floors
Thursday, March 25, 2004 Posted: 7:40 AM EST (1240 GMT)
KISSIMMEE, Florida (AP) -- A 2-year-old girl fell three stories from a resort walkway and safely into the arms of a man who had been reading a book by the pool and raced to save her.
The momentum sent both crashing into a bush, but the girl only suffered a bump and some scratches Saturday.
"I just happened to be at the right place at the right time," Alan Burns, 43, said Wednesday.
Burns said he was enjoying his weekend getaway at the Dorsan Suites when he heard a woman screaming. He looked up to see the toddler hanging from a railing on an outdoor walkway.
Burns and the woman ran underneath the child when the girl let go and fell into Burns' arms.
The baby's mother showed up several minutes later and was arrested on a charge of child neglect, police said. The woman was released on $1,000 bail.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/South/03/25/child.caught.ap/index.html
Great catch! (YOIKES!)
, all smiles, they only figured it out from the fact that his bedroom door was shut or locked or something, the small crater on the ground, and the fact that he showed up at the back door.
. My uncle found me half a block away in a park.
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