Chinese Boy Cuts Construction Workers Safety Rope Because Noise Interrupted Cartoons
A 10-year-old boy in Guizhou Province, China, was watching anime in his eighth-floor apartment when he was interrupted by the sound of construction on Monday, 25 August 2014. The boy then decided to take matters into his own hands. He cut in half the safety rope attached to a worker who was installing lights on his building, leaving the man dangling in mid-air for up to 40 minutes before the man was rescued.
Another worker, surnamed Zhang, called firemen to help his colleague, surnamed Liu. He told reporters that he and Liu were sent by their company to install outdoor landscape lights for the apartment complex. As Liu was working outside the eighth floor, Zhang suddenly heard him yell that a boy was cutting his safety rope.
As soon as firemen and police rushed to the scene, they painstakingly pulled Liu up from the balcony on the 11th floor, as the residents living on the ninth and 10th floors weren't at home.
"When I was using the electric drill, I felt my lower rope shaking. Then I saw the boy cutting the rope with a knife", Liu said, "I shouted at him to stop but he didn't listen and soon after, the rope was broken. That's when I called to my workmate for help."
After speaking with police, the boy finally admitted to what he did. His father, surnamed Tang, was called to come back home from work. He gave Liu a sincere apology on behalf of his son and compensated him with... a new safety rope.