--- --- # Watch a Man Successfully Catch a Baby Plummeting From a Window by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman May 23, 2014 2:49 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman May 23, 2014 2:49 PM UTC During heavy thunderstorms in south China this weekend, a one-year-old baby apparently went looking for his mother by a window. Two men on the street below noticed the child’s precarious position and anticipated his fall, Reuters [reports](http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/asia-pacific/man-catches-one-year-old-baby-falling-from-window-1.1805433). “I didn’t think too much at the time,” said the man who managed to catch the baby, identified only as Mr. Li. “I was just afraid of failing to catch him.” Another resident, identified as Mr. Hu, helped put down cardboard and a sofa to break the baby’s fall, just in case. “It was nothing but human instinct to do so,” he said. Watch the surveillance video that captured the miraculous catch above. Video: Man Successfully Catches Baby Who Fell From Window in China ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/110313/man-catches-falling-baby/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/110313/man-catches-falling-baby/"},"headline":"Watch a Man Successfully Catch a Baby Plummeting From a Window","datePublished":"2014-05-23T14:49:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:09:58.385Z","description":"He fell from the second story of a building","url":"https://time.com/110313/man-catches-falling-baby/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Babies","viral","Videos"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/110313/man-catches-falling-baby/","name":"Watch a Man Successfully Catch a Baby Plummeting From a Window"}}]}] ```