# Raining babies (falls 8 floors and is caught) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 2, 2010, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raining-babies-falls-8-floors-and-is-caught/559236 "2010-11-02T18:22:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ionizer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5daacb/32.png) [@Ionizer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ionizer)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raining-babies-falls-8-floors-and-is-caught/559236/1 "2010-11-02T18:22:45Z")
[Here](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/02/baby-falls-from-7th-floor_n_777711.html) Apparently a non-supervised baby fell out a 7th-floor window, hit an awning, then caught by someone that saw it as it happened. Good catch! (where the hell where parents? but thats a Pit thing, of course) ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raining-babies-falls-8-floors-and-is-caught/559236/2 "2010-11-02T18:36:05Z")
Ye gods. The chances of that little girl living once she fell must have been one in a billion. The very thought makes my skin crawl. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raining-babies-falls-8-floors-and-is-caught/559236/3 "2010-11-02T18:40:28Z")
Kudos the the “young man” who saw what was about to happen and got his father to help. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raining-babies-falls-8-floors-and-is-caught/559236/4 "2010-11-02T18:58:03Z")
I like how the picture accompanying the article is not of the actual baby from the story, but a file photo from the Getty archives. Just in case anyone reading the story doesn’t know what a baby looks like, I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raining-babies-falls-8-floors-and-is-caught/559236/5 "2010-11-02T21:02:00Z")
Even if he was ready the fact he was able to catch her was very lucky. She could have torn through the awning, bounced 30 feethorizontally, or just rolled off the edge. I can’t do the math anymore, how fast was the kid going when it hit the awning? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raining-babies-falls-8-floors-and-is-caught/559236/6 "2010-11-02T22:30:41Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > I can’t do the math anymore, how fast was the kid going when it hit the awning? My very rough math says ~60 mph. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raining-babies-falls-8-floors-and-is-caught/559236/7 "2010-11-03T01:04:39Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > I like how the picture accompanying the article is not of the actual baby from the story, but a file photo from the Getty archives. Just in case anyone reading the story doesn’t know what a baby looks like, I suppose. Me too. Oh…a baby!!! A…girl baby! I get it now! 😃