Crawling baby rescued from middle of South Euclid street

[Algorem]

(Awwww.Cute.Baby not get smooshed.)


http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/08/crawling_baby_rescued_from_mid.html

Crawling baby rescued from middle of South Euclid street
Posted by Mark Puente/Plain Dealer Reporter August 07, 2009 22:27PM

South Euclid -- A 14-month-old boy wandered from his house Friday and was found crawling in the middle of a busy street by a passing driver.

"Thank God nothing happened and that people stopped," police Lt. Jeff Meyers said.

The child was crawling in the middle of Bayard Avenue near Warrensville Center Road about 8:45 a.m. The youngster was wearing only a diaper and a green onesie, witnesses said.

Rachel Downey of South Euclid was on her way to work when she approached the intersection and couldn't believe what she saw. She slammed on her brakes and jumped out of the car to prevent other cars from passing her and hitting the toddler...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Babies do not recognize danger!

This could have ended very differently...:scared:

Thank goodness for Rachel Downey and her quick thinking!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

2. Jeeze...That's just a few blocks away from

my stepson and his family. I wonder if they heard about it from neighbors...

I'm glad the kid is ok!

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. So if Euclid Ave. is made of two parallel lines AB and CD, and baby crawls parallel interior line EF

then when car stops and driver runs in arc segment GH of (120 degrees) to intersect baby, what is the interior angle of that intersection?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

5. 10 degrees of separation

[BlueIris]

4. "The child's mother could not be reached for comment."

Yeah, I bet.

[hedgehog]

6. My mother still recallls ironing in our home on a quiet suburban street and

looking out the window to see my little brother sitting out there on a manhole cover. He had crawled out beneath the gate of our fenced back yard and then explored a little. Manhole covers are cool on hot days and have interesting noises from running water.

[applegrove]

7. I was once in a McDonald's parking lot eating. The car parked across from me

had to women watching balloons. They were standing in front of the car. I saw a seat belt moving about. Next thing I knew a baby fell out of the back seat of the car and landed on his/her ass. A real baby...like 10 months old. Then it started to crawl. I was just about to get out and save it when the women noticed their escapee.

[Quantess]

8. tsk tsk. Teaching her baby to jaywalk.

[NJCher]

9. very weird experience I had a few years ago

A friend and I had come off a major highway in central NJ. We were traveling down a major street when we saw a little boy racing like a maniac down the street toward the highway. He was running and there was no adult in sight.

I told my friend to turn around and we headed back to the highway. I could see this little boy, about six, was going to run right into traffic on the highway we'd just left.

And he did! The nervy little kid ran right out into the middle of traffic and stood in the intersection with his hand up, like a traffic cop might do.

I was racing behind him, trying to get to him before he entered the intersection but I couldn't catch him before he got there.

A few seconds later I get to the intersection and here's this kid, holding up traffic with his hand raised in the "stop" gesture. It was an amazing sight! There were four lanes of traffic in each direction plus a center median. We're talking a total of 16 lanes of traffic! And here's this little kid, standing out there all alone with his hand up.

The expressions on the faces of the people in traffic were such a sight. Peoples' eyes were bugging right out of their sockets. A couple other women got out of their cars to help me but right away they began berating me for being a poor mother. I said, "Not my kid!"

A woman from the traffic and I got the kid to the other side of the highway. We got in her vehicle and she drove us across the road.

This is not a highway where people can cross the road. It is way too dangerous for that.

Then the woman, the kid, and my friend and I intended to head for a police station. As we drove down the street, there was a family standing on their front lawn, obviously distraught. There was an older woman crying and a very upset young mother. A father, too. We knew they had to be the family and so we stopped. When we told them the story, I thought they were going to faint.

The kid was screaming his head off by this time.

The story was that the mother and father had left to run errands and the grandmother was in charge. Next thing she knows, the kid is gone.

Later the kid said he misunderstood his grandmother to say they were going to the library. He was so excited about the library that he ran full-speed ahead.


Cher