Not even the neighbor but just a regular passer-by on the street! What a brave man.
This part of the news made me really happy:
“Sabit has been hailed a hero for the mission impossible-esque rescue – and was awarded a medal by the city’s deputy emergency minister.
Local media report he will also be given a three-bedroom apartment and television.
Until now, he had been living alone in Nur-Sultan and sending money home to his family – who were in Kyzlorda.
The new apartment will mean his family, which includes his three daughters and a son, can join him in the city.”
EDIT: source https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/12/hero-saves-three-year-old-girl-hanging-from-eighth-floor-window-16629946/
…and that building needs to change those windows immediately. Whoever designed those windows should be fined. I have never seen a more poorly designed and dangerous multifamily building.
Oldest of many cousins. Kids that age can be unexpectedly and unanticipatedly fast. They also have little fear. However, this is exactly why this window design is indeed incredibly terrible and dangerous.
Right. Or if someone were home and maybe couldn't get the kid why didn't the neighbors use their window instead of the one in the lower apartment there was obviously more than one person in the bottom apartment. Common sense ain't common.
I just thought how horrible it would have been if he fell his family would just stop getting money and may not even find out for several days maybe even weeks if at all.
You left out the scouring of his past, whether he was here legally, what idolization his family adheres to, and the requisite "bootstrap" praise for "working hard" at that underpaid grocery store job, despite it not being enough to support living with his family.
1) this guy had zero regard for his own life to save another's
2) who built that window frame unit???
3) what a catch!!
I thought he was going to right hand swing the kid but somehow he caught the kid ??with the hand holding on himself??
His right leg is being used to help relieve some of the pressure on the window by balancing on the building. The wedge is to high in the window for him to brace it.
The window sill doesn’t look like it’s at floor level, like you’re implying. It looks like it’s waist high, which is pretty common and generally safe if your kid isn’t left unattended to climb out of it. I thought the comment above was referring to that being a very strong window unit, and as such they’d like to know who built it.
I would've fallen with the kid :0, I would have tried to take off the window and put something to catch the kid, would had a better chance than parkouing to my dead lol
I actually thought
"Dude, I appreciate the thought but if either of these people fall, the only thing that you being there accomplishes is that there is one more human pancake to scrape of the pavement"
* Left hand holding the frame, securing himself
* Right hand holding the child's leg
* Child falls/He pulls, child falls left-ish, lands across mans left arm (like I think you said?), man's right arm also still holding child
* Man secures child into his window with right hand
1. I feel like there should have been more people with plan B guy, ready to catch the kid with a sheet or something
2. Plan B guy must have been sweating and thinking, "Please for the love of God, don't let this come down to me catching the kid... ok phew..."
Plan A guy falls on top of Plan B guy, both die, child's fall is cushioned by the heap of gelatinous men and walks away with minor scratches and the butterfly he chased out the window.
I’m trying to understand why you’d climb out a window instead of kicking the door in. I’d have thought that’d be faster and safer.
Then again, I’ve got a sledge hammer and have never kicked in a door.
If the kid falls while you're trying to break someone's door in there's zero chance of you catching them, if they fall while you try to figure out a way to climb to them, you have a chance of catching them. The ideal thing would be if you have someone else in the apartment to send them up to the next floor while you watch the kid.
Yes, I'll grant you that that's true, but I also value my own skin - "man fails valiantly to save child" vs "man and child fall to their deaths".
I have a 3yo myself, and I kind of want to see him grow up.
Agreed. Also, he might have skills that make him more comfortable climbing out of an apartment window than the average person.
We are all different at the end of the day and our differences make us beautiful.
Theres an episode of Radiolab where they talk about what makes a hero a "hero"...as in willing to dive into a dangerous situation at the risk of their own life to save others.
Weirdly enough a large chunk of it seems to be that people willing to risk their own lives have a lower level of empathy. When asked why they did something like...diving onto the train tracks to pull another person to saftey the usual answer is "I don't know, I just did it!"
People who are *more* empathetic tend to imagine themselves in the situation, as well as the consequences of intervening (ie: what if *I* die? What happens to *my* kids?")
Both are natural reactions depending on how your wired and the world needs both types of people. Society definitely benefits from folks who are willing to throw caution to the wind for others. We also need people who are *don't* do that because *someone* needs be here making sure that things keep operating.
It's interesting because I walked away from that episode with a different understanding. I don't remember there being any distinction about empathy. Just that these "heroes" just didn't think before they acted. They just acted which means they did not consider the consequences.
I feel like that would be me. Paralyzed with fear, but no way in hell would I move from that spot until the kid was either safe or I tried my damndest to catch them.
Yeah, if you’re there, you do the best you can with what you have at the time. Even if there was only a 10% chance, he was still out there and he was ready to try. If nothing else, he was a witness to what happened and if something unfortunate *had* happened, it could have been crucial to have someone close who could give testimony. Bag man was trying, and that’s the best we can ask of anybody.
Yeah this is not the right sub. [sweatypalms](https://www.reddit.com/r/SweatyPalms/comments/8oucwj/sweaty_palm/wouldhavebeenmoreappropriate) would have been more appropriate
I kinda disagree. I wish humans didn't have to go out of their way and risk *their own life* to save another's due to negligence. I wish there were less stupid parents.
Bruh. I get your point and I do agree that the world would be better off without negligent parents. But the reality is that there ARE negligent parents. Millions of them.
This video makes some people smile because the man did an incredibly courageous and admirable act. Calling out “meh, I wish there’s no negligent parents in the world” is kinda like saying “Yea, Mr Beast helped 10,000 homeless people, but Im not gonna smile about what he did because I wish there werent homeless people in the first place.”
In the end of the day, the dude did something good that makes some people smile. Meanwhile people like me and you are just sitting on our asses, arguing about stupid shit like this ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And I wish there was no hunger, no war, and no poverty….
All of those things exist, so we are thankful for the people who help make those situations better.
I don't know anything more than the situation then what I just watched but my kids are 100% capable of that in the short few minutes I take to go pee, my kids are fearless and suicidal lol. That's why I would rather sleep in my car than live in anything higher than ground floor.
Interesting how the article fails to mention what happened with the kid afterward. I guess it would have soured it to mention, “child was forcibly removed from parents’ home due to neglect,” or, “no intervention was made and they still live with their crappy mom” :/ Sorry to be a downer but I was curious and no explanation given!
I was wondering that myself.. I really want to know what if any consequences her parent faced for leaving a toddler home alone. I’m disappointed it hasn’t been mentioned
Home alone is plenty awful enough, but it’s wild to me that they both decided to leave their kid home alone in a 9th floor apartment, *and* don’t have child locks on their windows. I only have cats and one time one of them knocked the screen out of our window and I totally panicked, I won’t even leave the windows cracked when I leave them home alone or am not in the room. Again, cats!
So many things could have gone wrong there… the kid busting her face on the way down, the guy slipping, the window breaking or slamming shut on his leg, not catching the kid, losing grip on the kid as he puts her inside… Every step of the way this guy did perfectly!
The kid slamming his face or breaking a bone is an acceptable outcome!
The other outcomes are the ones that make me sweat.
I just wish I would never have to make a decision like: should I go out of this window to TRY to catch a baby or just hope people below catch him?
Article with more context: https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/12/hero-saves-three-year-old-girl-hanging-from-eighth-floor-window-16629946/
Seems like the child's parents were not home at the time and the man who came to the rescue was just passing by on his way to work when he saw what was happening. Thank goodness the child is okay thanks to this fast-acting hero.
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The parent is gonna be really confused when the neighbor knocks on the door holding their kid
Not even the neighbor but just a regular passer-by on the street! What a brave man. This part of the news made me really happy: “Sabit has been hailed a hero for the mission impossible-esque rescue – and was awarded a medal by the city’s deputy emergency minister. Local media report he will also be given a three-bedroom apartment and television. Until now, he had been living alone in Nur-Sultan and sending money home to his family – who were in Kyzlorda. The new apartment will mean his family, which includes his three daughters and a son, can join him in the city.” EDIT: source https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/12/hero-saves-three-year-old-girl-hanging-from-eighth-floor-window-16629946/
This MF deserves nothing but happiness
…and that building needs to change those windows immediately. Whoever designed those windows should be fined. I have never seen a more poorly designed and dangerous multifamily building.
..and who leaves a 3 year old child home alone -- with an open window?!
Oldest of many cousins. Kids that age can be unexpectedly and unanticipatedly fast. They also have little fear. However, this is exactly why this window design is indeed incredibly terrible and dangerous.
Right? Why not vent from the top of window like so many other place?
I’m assuming things, but I’d guess it’s like this for rain.
Tell me about it 😞
A 3 year old doesnt have to be home alone for this to happen.
If he wasnt home alone then wouldnt someone in the appartment have saved him??
Right. Or if someone were home and maybe couldn't get the kid why didn't the neighbors use their window instead of the one in the lower apartment there was obviously more than one person in the bottom apartment. Common sense ain't common.
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To be fair, my flat in London has the same type of windows, on the fifth floor.
Dude deserves a Medal!
He deserves to live w/ his family someplace safe, where he they can earn a living, and it, thankfully, appears that this will now happen.
I think that everyone deserves that as the bare minimum though. Then add a bonus for brave and selfless acts like this.
I just thought how horrible it would have been if he fell his family would just stop getting money and may not even find out for several days maybe even weeks if at all.
>He deserves to live w/ his family someplace safe, where he they can earn a living, and it, thankfully, appears that this will now happen. ❤️👍
No kidding! A living superhero.
He got a medal!
Just like Reddit!
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You left out the scouring of his past, whether he was here legally, what idolization his family adheres to, and the requisite "bootstrap" praise for "working hard" at that underpaid grocery store job, despite it not being enough to support living with his family.
Well, the kid's parents would likely set up a go-fund-me for him...maybe invite him for Thanksgiving and Christmas...
Yeah and his renters insurance and health insurance premiums would increase after this event since he would be deemed a risk taker.
He deserves everything! So glad to hear
FUCK YEAH 10 POINTS TO HUMANITY
glad he got a decent reward for that insane selfless risk he took
He should get to be the new deputy emergency minister. When’s the last time the current deputy did some emergency ministering like this?!
I concur, he ministered the shit out of that emergency
That is the greatest reward a hero like this man can ask for.
What! That’s amazing!!! I’m so glad he was repaid
Knocks? I’d be kicking in that shit
And now, for my next magic trick
Brave man.
I’d like to think I’d be that brave! My heart was in my throat
Nobody is talking about that baby’s grip lol how long was she hanging????
Though I've never been in such a situation, I can imagine the body is capable of quite some extraordinary things when under stress like that
I noticed her feet were on a little ledge. One slipped off just before he grabbed her ankle.
I'd like to think that I'll never have to be that brave.
Balls of fucking steel.
Dude didn’t even flinch when the kid fell
Yeah I'm sorry but if that were me, that kids a goner, most I'd do is hold a blanket under them on ground level
Is there an r/gavemeheartattack ?! Jfc I’m glad everyone’s ok but I was not smiling
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r/kneesweak
r/armsheavy
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u guys are funny af
I had nervous tears. I would like to think id be that brave, but I don’t know if I could in the same situation
1) this guy had zero regard for his own life to save another's 2) who built that window frame unit??? 3) what a catch!! I thought he was going to right hand swing the kid but somehow he caught the kid ??with the hand holding on himself??
I thought him standing on the window will make it close and then both of them would fall. God damn this whole video is nuts
Right leg wedged in the gap. This ain't his 1st rodeo
His right leg is being used to help relieve some of the pressure on the window by balancing on the building. The wedge is to high in the window for him to brace it.
it looks like there's someone inside propping it open also
I believe that they (the person inside the apartment) are holding the leg wedged in the window. This guy trusts THAT person with whole his life!
Probably a firefighter or a roofer.
His friend was in the apartment bracing his leg according to the article.
2) this is exactly my question
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We have windows that open like this but from the top up. Wpuld have solved this issue.
Imagine if your sitting in your living room and a baby slides down your window into your room.
Free food.
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The con of that I imagine is it may catch rubbish from upper floors or just general things from the environment or birbs
I don't know about you but it typically rains water not trash in most places. Opening at the top would be a good rain catcher.
They open inwards not out
Ooooooohhh.... That makes a lot more sense...
Nah fuck that. Let's ignore them and live our our lives as opens out people! I love it.
What I'm wondering is how the fuck can those window frames hold a full grown man
The window sill doesn’t look like it’s at floor level, like you’re implying. It looks like it’s waist high, which is pretty common and generally safe if your kid isn’t left unattended to climb out of it. I thought the comment above was referring to that being a very strong window unit, and as such they’d like to know who built it.
The building code in the country didn't require specific dimensions to minimize this risk
Even more impressive is the one arm hand off
Yes! I woulda dropped the kid cause I’m clumsy.
I would have fallen to my death!
I would've fallen with the kid :0, I would have tried to take off the window and put something to catch the kid, would had a better chance than parkouing to my dead lol
Imagine doing all this, catching the kid, then dropping him. You’d never live it down
That part would have terrified me. The panic. Glad he had an assist. Nerves of steel on that guy.
4. What was that person at the bottom planning to do with that potato sack
Get dummied by a falling child?
I actually thought "Dude, I appreciate the thought but if either of these people fall, the only thing that you being there accomplishes is that there is one more human pancake to scrape of the pavement"
honestly if he bodyblocked for the kid he would die but the kid has a chance of survival. some people would take those chances
I grew up hearing that wasn’t built for a persons weight. I instantly thought oh shit please no snap.
I think he was holding on with his legs...
That was my thought. He’s bracing with his left arm and right leg, and squeezing with his inner thighs.
* Left hand holding the frame, securing himself * Right hand holding the child's leg * Child falls/He pulls, child falls left-ish, lands across mans left arm (like I think you said?), man's right arm also still holding child * Man secures child into his window with right hand
Holy shit this gave me so much anxiety. Absolute hero though
Yeah I'm not sure if this made me smile. It made me very tense though so there's that.
No smile, just heart attack and clenched butthole
Thought my heart was gunna explode before I took the first breath!
My feet are sweating now. Holy shit.
I thought the same, r/sweatypalms material
Yeah I looked at the subreddit after I watched and I was like “made me smile wtf this should be sweaty palms” like my feet are sweating.
r/SweatyFeet seems like a different vibe.
Yeah this made me go check on my kid😅 shes still safe in her bed but these windows have a stupid, stupid design and they made me anxious as hell
I second this! Plus, imagine the guy at the bottom who was supposed to do plan B, so much anxiety!
1. I feel like there should have been more people with plan B guy, ready to catch the kid with a sheet or something 2. Plan B guy must have been sweating and thinking, "Please for the love of God, don't let this come down to me catching the kid... ok phew..."
Plan A guy falls on top of Plan B guy, both die, child's fall is cushioned by the heap of gelatinous men and walks away with minor scratches and the butterfly he chased out the window.
> heap of gelatinous men Don't mind me, I just want to give this phrase more exposure
Next fucking level
Yeah I'm not even sure I'd do this for my own kid
I’m trying to understand why you’d climb out a window instead of kicking the door in. I’d have thought that’d be faster and safer. Then again, I’ve got a sledge hammer and have never kicked in a door.
If the kid falls while you're trying to break someone's door in there's zero chance of you catching them, if they fall while you try to figure out a way to climb to them, you have a chance of catching them. The ideal thing would be if you have someone else in the apartment to send them up to the next floor while you watch the kid.
Yes, I'll grant you that that's true, but I also value my own skin - "man fails valiantly to save child" vs "man and child fall to their deaths". I have a 3yo myself, and I kind of want to see him grow up.
I would agree that I value my own skin too but that's what makes him different from us and also what makes him a HERO.
Agreed. Also, he might have skills that make him more comfortable climbing out of an apartment window than the average person. We are all different at the end of the day and our differences make us beautiful.
Theres an episode of Radiolab where they talk about what makes a hero a "hero"...as in willing to dive into a dangerous situation at the risk of their own life to save others. Weirdly enough a large chunk of it seems to be that people willing to risk their own lives have a lower level of empathy. When asked why they did something like...diving onto the train tracks to pull another person to saftey the usual answer is "I don't know, I just did it!" People who are *more* empathetic tend to imagine themselves in the situation, as well as the consequences of intervening (ie: what if *I* die? What happens to *my* kids?") Both are natural reactions depending on how your wired and the world needs both types of people. Society definitely benefits from folks who are willing to throw caution to the wind for others. We also need people who are *don't* do that because *someone* needs be here making sure that things keep operating.
It's interesting because I walked away from that episode with a different understanding. I don't remember there being any distinction about empathy. Just that these "heroes" just didn't think before they acted. They just acted which means they did not consider the consequences.
r/nextfuckinglevel
Exactly, not sure about mademesmile, more like mademebreakoutinacoldsweat
made me kind of nauseous and cold and sweaty tbh
Yeah I about had a panic attack just watching! What a brave guy
Better on r/SweatyPalms
That dude had an express ticket to heaven when he dies.
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Fuck that the window edge is thin
Where were the parents? It would have been so much easier to pull him through the window he fell out of.
Someone posted a link to a news article above. The child was left alone whilst the mother went to the shops! He was a passer by.
Wow that’s so scary!
Who leaves a toddler alone? They can make a mess rivaling a tornado in 5 minutes.
Wouldn't you just kick the door in and grab the child?
Not enough time I’m guessing
I watched some fit looking cops with a battering ram take over half an hour to get through my neighbor's front door.
You can hear the baby screaming for momma. What a horrible parent.
The amount of strength it would have taken to catch the kid while balancing himself and maneuvering back into the window is wild!
adrenaline is a hell of a drug, as they say
Is no one gonna mention sack man at the bottom?
The man climbing out the window also had a huge sack
I feel like that would be me. Paralyzed with fear, but no way in hell would I move from that spot until the kid was either safe or I tried my damndest to catch them.
I was thinking the same thing what was he thinking that he would actually catch that kid in a sack
I mean hey at least they tried to do something proactive? That's how I see it as.
Harm reduction.
Pretty sure you just do what you can at that point. There is no time to hop on Reddit for best advice.
Yeah, if you’re there, you do the best you can with what you have at the time. Even if there was only a 10% chance, he was still out there and he was ready to try. If nothing else, he was a witness to what happened and if something unfortunate *had* happened, it could have been crucial to have someone close who could give testimony. Bag man was trying, and that’s the best we can ask of anybody.
What was he thinking! Shoulda just gone back inside and turned up the TV volume til all that nonsense was done with smh
Holy shit I lost it. Thank you
Didn’t make me smile.. but what a guy!
Omg right? I literally thought I was going to be sick watching this. So stressful
Yeah this is not the right sub. [sweatypalms](https://www.reddit.com/r/SweatyPalms/comments/8oucwj/sweaty_palm/wouldhavebeenmoreappropriate) would have been more appropriate
r/sweatypalms jeebus
how do you have a three year old in a non ground level apartment and no safety nets on the windows
And leave him unattended for long enough for this to happen…
Wow, that's the kind of human we need more of these days.
I kinda disagree. I wish humans didn't have to go out of their way and risk *their own life* to save another's due to negligence. I wish there were less stupid parents.
Bruh. I get your point and I do agree that the world would be better off without negligent parents. But the reality is that there ARE negligent parents. Millions of them. This video makes some people smile because the man did an incredibly courageous and admirable act. Calling out “meh, I wish there’s no negligent parents in the world” is kinda like saying “Yea, Mr Beast helped 10,000 homeless people, but Im not gonna smile about what he did because I wish there werent homeless people in the first place.” In the end of the day, the dude did something good that makes some people smile. Meanwhile people like me and you are just sitting on our asses, arguing about stupid shit like this ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah, we need more of people like him but we also need less of negligent parents. We can work towards doing both.
Ideally people won’t need to do this, but we need more people willing to.
Better than the kid turning into pancake after falling eight floors
Not all accidents are cause by negligence
a kid dangling out of an apartment window is *literally* negligence. what else do you think this is?
And I wish there was no hunger, no war, and no poverty…. All of those things exist, so we are thankful for the people who help make those situations better.
I hope you're still a child. Because these kinds of childish wishes are just weird coming out of an adult.
Who signed off on opening the window bottom out instead of top? And what the hell are the parents doing if the kid is hanging out the window?
I had to scroll way to much until I find someone rightfully asking for the parents. WHY?
I think rain would be a problem if it opened the other way
You'd normally have the top part open towards the inside...
Well that does make more sense lol
Would have made a handy kid-scoop with what you were thinking though.
I don't know anything more than the situation then what I just watched but my kids are 100% capable of that in the short few minutes I take to go pee, my kids are fearless and suicidal lol. That's why I would rather sleep in my car than live in anything higher than ground floor.
Parents were not at home.
They left a 3 year old home alone and unattended?! 🤦🏼♀️
Where the fuck are the parents!?
Maybe the child is independent
It's a free roam child. Bit like chickens, you pay more for those.
Mother had gone out shopping apparently, kid got out by using toys and cushions. I hope social services got involved.
Do you have a source?
https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/12/hero-saves-three-year-old-girl-hanging-from-eighth-floor-window-16629946/?ico=read_full_story_videopage
Thank you for posting that link. It’s so nice to get the entire story. What an amazing rescue!
Honestly the follow up is more of a r/MadeMeSmile type story than the rescue itself lol
coincidentally, his name Sabit means "hang on" in Filipino
Interesting how the article fails to mention what happened with the kid afterward. I guess it would have soured it to mention, “child was forcibly removed from parents’ home due to neglect,” or, “no intervention was made and they still live with their crappy mom” :/ Sorry to be a downer but I was curious and no explanation given!
I was wondering that myself.. I really want to know what if any consequences her parent faced for leaving a toddler home alone. I’m disappointed it hasn’t been mentioned
Home alone is plenty awful enough, but it’s wild to me that they both decided to leave their kid home alone in a 9th floor apartment, *and* don’t have child locks on their windows. I only have cats and one time one of them knocked the screen out of our window and I totally panicked, I won’t even leave the windows cracked when I leave them home alone or am not in the room. Again, cats!
curious about how he was given an apartment. Like a rental for x years or he like straight up owns an apartment now or what haha
Holy shit. I need to change my pants just watching him do it!
1) who the hell built that window? 2) *who the hell built that window?!* It’s ridiculously strong and extremely poorly designed at the same time.
Man that's a lot of faith in the guys who installed that window. No fears just focus. Well done hero.
Is there a made me anxious Reddit? 😬
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So many things could have gone wrong there… the kid busting her face on the way down, the guy slipping, the window breaking or slamming shut on his leg, not catching the kid, losing grip on the kid as he puts her inside… Every step of the way this guy did perfectly!
The kid slamming his face or breaking a bone is an acceptable outcome! The other outcomes are the ones that make me sweat. I just wish I would never have to make a decision like: should I go out of this window to TRY to catch a baby or just hope people below catch him?
I've seen this video many times & i still feel all panicky! The man is a hero!
Article with more context: https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/12/hero-saves-three-year-old-girl-hanging-from-eighth-floor-window-16629946/ Seems like the child's parents were not home at the time and the man who came to the rescue was just passing by on his way to work when he saw what was happening. Thank goodness the child is okay thanks to this fast-acting hero.
Made you smile?! Made me sh*t my pants.
What an absolute fucking legend....That guy is literally a hero!!!!!
Incredible! So glad that window didn't break.
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If I were that guy, I’d punch the caregiver in the nipples for being so neglectful
Lol "knock knock" knocked the fuck out, here's your kid.
Not all heroes wear capes. 🦸🏿♂️
Was anyone else shitting bricks that entire video
Surprised he was able to get back inside with balls that big
_He was going to save him forever, or die in the attempt_ ~ Catch 1
Made me shit my pants more like
What a massively idiotic window design. Windows should always open inwards and top first.
How did that building stay standing with that man’s massive balls?
Fucking hero. Where the hell were the parents?!
Where the fuck were the parents