Dive Brief:
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Construction is a noisy business—too noisy for a 10-year-old southwest China boy who decided to quiet the racket outside his eighth-floor apartment by cutting the lifeline of a worker who was disturbing him.
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The worker is safe after dangling 100 feet from the ground, unable to move up or down, for 40 minutes until rescue workers arrived. He had been fitting lights with an electric drill outside the boy’s apartment when he felt his line shake and saw the youngster sawing through his line with a knife.
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The boy, who was home alone, confessed to police that he had been watching cartoons and couldn't hear the TV over the noise of the drill.
Dive Insight:
It looks like construction crews need to prepare for the unexpected. The worker’s rescue was slow because the incident happened in the afternoon when few in the apartment building were home. Rescuers also had trouble finding someone to let them in so they could reach through a window to help the man.