--- title: Minion Toy Helps Save Girl's Life by Cushioning Her Fall description: The quirky movie characters may have saved a life canonical: https://time.com/3963556/minion-toy-colorado-girl/ author: Daniel D'Addario article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-18T14:43:52.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:22:16.784Z og:title: Minion Toy Cushions Colorado Girl's 3-Story Fall og:description: The quirky movie characters may have saved a life og:url: https://time.com/3963556/minion-toy-colorado-girl/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5f5e8abab4d08483/69885b80196cf41aaa0372a3/stuffed-minion.jpg?branch=production&width=500&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 500 og:image:height: 281 og:image:alt: stuffed minion og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Minion Toy Cushions Colorado Girl's 3-Story Fall twitter:description: The quirky movie characters may have saved a life twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5f5e8abab4d08483/69885b80196cf41aaa0372a3/stuffed-minion.jpg?branch=production&width=500&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Minion Toy Helps Save Colorado Girl's Life by Cushioning Her 3-Story Fall  by [Daniel D'Addario](https://time.com/author/daniel-daddario/)  ## Daniel D'Addario Jul 18, 2015 2:43 PM UTC  Toys R Us  by [Daniel D'Addario](https://time.com/author/daniel-daddario/)  ## Daniel D'Addario Jul 18, 2015 2:43 PM UTC So much for the [Minions ](http://time.com/3955372/minions-hit-at-boxoffice/)being evil. The mysterious yellow creatures who aid supervillains played by Steve Carell and Sandra Bullock on film came in handy in Colorado on Thursday, when a 5-year-old girl playing with a Minion stuffed toy [fell out of a third-story window,](http://kron4.com/2015/07/17/police-stuffed-toy-minion-cushions-girls-3-story-fall/) the Associated Press reports. Though she ultimately broke her arm, she held on to the Minion as she fell. Colorado Springs police credit the cushioning power of the critter, in part, with saving the girl’s life. It’s more good news for the all-powerful Minions, who this month saw their eponymous movie earn the all-time second-highest box office debut for an animated film. \[[_AP_](http://kron4.com/2015/07/17/police-stuffed-toy-minion-cushions-girls-3-story-fall/)\] **Read Next:** [_Why There Are No Female Minions_](http://time.com/3955233/female-minions/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3963556/minion-toy-colorado-girl/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3963556/minion-toy-colorado-girl/"},"headline":"Minion Toy Helps Save Colorado Girl's Life by Cushioning Her 3-Story Fall","datePublished":"2015-07-18T14:43:52.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:22:16.784Z","description":"The quirky movie characters may have saved a life","url":"https://time.com/3963556/minion-toy-colorado-girl/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies","Bizarre"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5f5e8abab4d08483/69885b80196cf41aaa0372a3/stuffed-minion.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel D'Addario","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/daniel-daddario/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5f5e8abab4d08483/69885b80196cf41aaa0372a3/stuffed-minion.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"stuffed minion","caption":"stuffed minion","creditText":"Toys R Us","representativeOfPage":true}],"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/3963556/minion-toy-colorado-girl/","name":"Minion Toy Helps Save Colorado Girl's Life by Cushioning Her 3-Story Fall"}}]}] ```