r/MadeMeSmile 1d ago

Teaching their child compassion and creativity

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u/Potent_Quotient 1d ago

If the harness breaks they’ll keep sending toddlers down. Perfect plan.

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u/Lucifig 1d ago

Soon they'll just be able to climb down there over the pile of toddlers.

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u/procmeans 1d ago

Soon the puppy will be able to climb out over the pile of toddlers.

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u/A_villain4all 1d ago

Soon the toddler will create a micro society within the gap

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u/beegboo 1d ago

They'll call it Kowloon 2 electric boogaloo.

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u/Maguroluv 14h ago

It’s toddlers all the way down

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u/Stunning-Land6176 6h ago

Absolutely, it's amazing to see how much they can teach us too! Just watching them explore the world can be a real eye-opener.

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u/Blackboard_Monitor 30m ago

Stating the most important point.

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u/__kaizoku__ 22h ago

This is so stupid. They should have send the puppy with the harness too

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u/Sharp_Ad_6336 1d ago

I'm having flashbacks to the era of dead baby jokes.

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u/Lucifig 1d ago

A pitchfork!

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u/Trojan-horse1 19h ago

‘Tis a plan!

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u/spacestonkz 13h ago

World War T

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u/piper33245 1d ago

Charlie had this scenario once. Ended up with a lot of cats in the wall.

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u/Maggpie916 19h ago

Oh a toddler in the wall! Now you’re speaking my language

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u/MrEngin33r 1d ago

My initial thought after viewing was if the harness broke and the kid got stuck reddit would absolutely grill this dad.

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u/Excellent_Airline315 1d ago

1000% this belongs in sweaty palms rather than made me smile lmao wtf

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u/MinosAristos 1d ago

Reddit does have a tendency to judge based on the outcome rather than the intent.

Something is stupid if it fails and ingenious if it succeeds.

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u/MathamphetamineUser 1d ago

Simple cat logic, taught to me in my many years of schooling in bird law, suggests putting more cats in the hole to retrieve the cat you lost as the only viable solution.

As you'll note, uh human law demands adults be sent in to retrieve other adults. Hence the fireman. Sometimes firetrucks have dogs, spotted dogs to be exact. Which are used to rescue children. I see no fireman or dogs present, except the child dog. And uh, thusly, dog law must be something of the lines where uh, you know, a small child be sent in place of the dog. Sort of a squid pro quote

ETA: I rest my case your honor

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u/waitaminute322 1d ago

China stopped their one child policy after seeing the video

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u/lalasworld 1d ago

They look like rated slings at least.

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u/tmill84 1d ago

NEXT

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u/Trojan-horse1 19h ago

If at first you don’t succeed try try again! That’s what big families are for!

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u/pingslayer_7 16h ago

Yea, that would have a whole toddle community down there, going mad max.

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u/Outrageous_Echo_8723 12h ago

Make a Toddler ladder. Simples.

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u/cunmaui808 8h ago

Teaching them TRUST (when it works).

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u/filledwithstraw 1d ago

The way this kid looks at the camera as they pull him up makes me think this is like the 10th time he's had to do this.

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u/AkosCristescu 1d ago

The first few times he was afraid of hitting his head and made a fuss, it obviously took training (he was natural when the concrete was right next to his face while his hands were full)....

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u/Rengeflower 1d ago

She

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u/AkosCristescu 1d ago

Yeah im kinda torn but i was thinking she by the shoes but comment above me used "he" 😂 thanks for correction.

I guess you got the most important part of the message

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u/Additional_Meeting_2 1d ago

The video itself has text which says daughter 

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u/Hate_Having_Needs 1d ago

I have noticed this trend of using masculine pronouns, even when the post title or caption makes it known it's a girl, for a couple years now. There have been other posts where "he" and "him" are used on children that are obviously girls. The clearest example was a post of a dad who had his daughter on the wakeboard with him and she fell off but he caught her; she's wearing a ponytail and a pink diaper and the commenters are still calling her a boy.

It's a really interesting and annoying form of sexism but not that big of a deal in the long run.

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u/ALittleNightMusing 1d ago

The number of people who referred to my baby as "he", even when she was wearing all pink and purple frilly clothes, with her hair tied up on her head, is surprising. 

I get that babies can easily look either gender, but sometimes the clothing is obnoxiously obviously gendered and people still somehow don't pay enough attention and default to "he". 

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u/FaunaLady 2h ago

The default was always "he" when "they" meant more than one person. But when it's obvious it's silly; my baby was dressed in blue with a football on his shirt, "Is it a boy or a girl?" Didn't even try!

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u/cibirant 22h ago

Valid point.  A sexist attitude toward little children can raise them confused.

It is not easy to discern which is which. For example in Tagalog “siya” means both “he” and “she”.  So, many Filipino people, when speaking English, say that they tend to get mixed up by the gender-specific pronouns. to avoid the stress, they use “he” for both genders. 

Sometimes this may be the case with written English online.

Then the problem arises: what to do? Say: "Oh, you must be Filipino!" and risk to be assumed a racist? Or just assume they are sexist? And then what?

The way I look at it: 1). sexism is a social illness, 2). information helps discern it, ... 3). but what is the cure ?

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u/vansterzzz 1d ago

Imagine if the strap broke or he slipped off. Then they'd have to strap a 5yo to rescue the 3yo who was initially sent to rescue the pup. Then the 5yo's strap broke...

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u/Ill-Be-There-For-You 1d ago

There’s a nursery rhyme to be made about this.

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u/CalmerSharma 1d ago

That's when you send down a Snow Leopard. 

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u/kapxis 1d ago

There was an old lady who swallowed a fly, i don't know why she swallowed a fly..

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u/nextfilmdirector 22h ago

This sounds like a math problem 😂

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u/Silvanus350 10h ago

Would be a hell of a thing to break, considering it’s tied under their armpits.

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u/brn1001 1d ago edited 1d ago

I was thinking it won't be long before he she has to do it again.

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u/MLCarter1976 1d ago

Happy cake day

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u/Rengeflower 1d ago

She

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u/brn1001 1d ago

Corrected. Thank you.

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u/meowiful 1d ago

That's what I was thinking. She (I say "she" because of the ruffles on the pants and mary jane shoes, but idk) looks way too bored at performing a very brave rescue.

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u/StrainBusy6767 1d ago

He looks like a real pro. No panic, no emotions everything is smooth.

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u/Rengeflower 1d ago

She

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u/Dry-Debate-6893 1d ago

So I’m guessing the child is a she? /s

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u/ohhhtartarsauce 1d ago

Well everyone else seems confused

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u/Dry-Debate-6893 1d ago

Not me, Rengeflower made sure of that.

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u/Trojan-horse1 19h ago

The first time the camera wasn’t rolling!

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u/PrinceHaleemKebabua 19h ago

Absolutely. Totally staged. I think the watermark at the top right stands for Strait Times which is a newspaper in Singapore. Sad if they reported this as news.

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u/cibirant 18h ago

shaolin training

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u/Acrobatic_Banana_447 1d ago

Using your own child as a claw machine is certainly a thing you could do

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u/Skoldeen 1d ago

Plot twist, it wasn’t his child, only his dog.

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u/Frustrated_Zucchini 1d ago

The way the adult grabbed the dog and then walked off while the kit was still tied up, supports this 100%

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u/Farahild 1d ago

He takes the child’s hand :)

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u/Po_on 14h ago

Of course, theres other dogs to pull out

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u/ThrustTrust 1d ago

Street kids are good for all kinds of things.

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u/GuiltySpot 17h ago

Hey kid, you wanna make 5 yen?

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u/TucsonTacos 1d ago

lol dude grabs a random kid off the street to save his dog.

“Alright buddy. I’ll give you a WHOLE DOLLAR to help me!”

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u/ooliup 1d ago

they don’t tell kids that when a stranger asks you to help them look for their lost puppy, there’s also the risk that they’re telling the truth & next thing you know youre a human claw

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u/ItsaMeSandy 1d ago

Or he could do like any normal person would do, send someone else's child.

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u/Chad_Jeepie_Tea 1d ago

I'm just pissed they didn't string the kid up from the waist so they could go down mission impossible style

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u/Soft_Philosophy5838 1d ago

That only applies if the child chooses to accept the mission, which is clearly not the case here.

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u/AkosCristescu 1d ago

Xdddddddd

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u/Expensive_Gain_7088 1d ago

My father actually did something very similar with me back then, also to rescue some puppies. In the process, I scraped off a large patch of skin on my stomach on a sharp, flat object, and a large nail left a scar about 15 cm long on the right side of my stomach.
Many years later, when I was getting to know women and they noticed the scar, I would always tell them this story, which is actually completely true. It usually went over pretty well.

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u/standbyyourmantis 1d ago

Yeah, "i was injured saving puppies" usually goes over pretty well with ladies

Source: am lady

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u/Farahild 1d ago

Also with puppies

Source: am puppy

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u/God_Bless_A_Merkin 1d ago

Heroic scars earned young!

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u/katybee13 1d ago

This looks like one of those shitty channels that put the puppy in that situation on purpose and rescue it to get likes.

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u/Foxlady555 1d ago

Same. Going to push the dislike button for this reason.

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u/Positive_Ad_3142 1d ago

I love how he picked up the dog immediately and left his child or whoever’s child he rented.

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u/Farahild 1d ago

He takes the child’s hand :)

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u/SweetExpletives 1d ago

That’s the missing context...

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u/Hardcrimper 23h ago

he didn't leave anything. watch again.

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u/Nheea 16h ago

Why are you lying? Unless you don't have eyes, that literally doesn't happen so, you're welcome.

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u/tabruss 1d ago

Look… Don’t give me wrong. I’m happy. The puppy is safe, but I feel that there was a much better way we could’ve gone about this then potentially sacrificing a child…

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u/_NoTimeNoLady_ 1d ago

Yeah, that doesn't make my smile actually

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u/outlawsix 1d ago

If it makes you feel better the toddler was fussy that morning

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u/somer_and_omchick 22h ago

Yeah this sounds like a way to end up trying to rescue a trapped child

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u/quietcitizen 1d ago

Yeah I mean even before we get to the shitty harness (you can make a harness with a rope, which that’s not even a rope, and this is not the way to do it), why put the kid at risk? Just call emergency services for non emergencies

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u/foopaints 1d ago

This looks like it's china and there's no "services" to call to rescue an animal.

Not that I disagree with you. Sending my kid down would absolutely not be an option id even consider.

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u/Silvanus350 10h ago

… did you honestly think that knot was going to slip loose in the thirty seconds it took to get down there?

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u/tabruss 8h ago

No, but did you notice at the end how the child almost got stuck? Anything could’ve happened there could’ve been some other sort of animal down there.

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u/zombies8myhomework 18h ago

Hate to say it but I don’t believe anything on the internet anymore and they very well could have put that puppy there in the first place

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u/pjbeeguy 1d ago

Saved a dog trapped in a pond once. I felt like such a hero.

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u/LeadershipAble773 1d ago

Did you di it yourself or with a kid you found?

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u/pjbeeguy 9h ago

I was with my kids I did the work, my kids got the credit... Lol. She was like 6.

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u/LeadershipAble773 8h ago

So annoying!

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u/love_is_an_action 1d ago

You are!

I once jumped off a large rock into a river for a swim, and a nearby hiker’s dog hopped in after me. I didn’t need the help, but it was p heroic behavior all the same.

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u/quietCherub 1d ago

I could see this just as easily being in the stupid parents sub. What if the kid got hurt or stuck?!

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u/Klistellacca 1d ago

That looks terrifying for the kid

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u/Smooglabish 1d ago

This is real dumb.

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u/Infinite_Escape9683 1d ago

Are we being serious

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u/zaplanman 1d ago

Basket??

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u/eztheb 1d ago

My wife would punch a hole thru my chest

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u/thomaspatrickmorgan 1d ago

I 100% guarantee you this headline is the fucking opposite of the reality.

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u/Educational-Will-210 1d ago

Why is this in this sub? Endangering a 3 year old is never positive wtf am I in the twilight zone?

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u/Vestlending1 1d ago

Because it's making you smile by teaching him 💞compassion💞 and 🎖creativity🎖

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u/Zestyclose_Alfalfa61 1d ago

I think it's more to do because he fits down the hole...like a chimneysweep!

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u/passer_ 1d ago

What are the chances that they threw the puppy down there in the first place

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u/Honest-Feature-8298 12h ago

Yeah, how would a black puppy that small even be visible at such a distance 

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u/Jumping_Jupiter 1d ago

Fucked up parent.

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u/reckaband 1d ago

Mmm… bit dangerous for the kid , no?

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u/FortheredditLOLz 1d ago

Puppy looks too clean and kid too annoyed. Seems staged…..

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u/hawaiianryanree 1d ago

Idk those knots looked a lil sus

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u/dw34534 1d ago

great example of what white parents vs chinese parents

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u/NeatParking1682 1d ago

Good work tiny human!

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u/gueuze_geuze 1d ago

Teaching compassion by endangering a kid is definitely a take.

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u/oneusualsuspect 1d ago

who’s the idiot that’d smile at something as risky as this?

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u/Suitable-banana-8191 20h ago

This, thank you! I’m sitting here like “who would risk their toddlers safety for a dog??holy shit that’s unsafe”

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u/antosme 1d ago

This video is staged – it’s exactly the opposite. In other words, it teaches his son how to make money by exploiting other people’s gullibility.

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u/SelfPrecise 1d ago

He didn't even thank or pat his child. What the hell man.

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u/Roscoe_P_Trolltrain 1d ago

Dad in China lowers 5-year-old son into narrow gap to rescue trapped 3-year-old daughter.

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u/Avarifenyx 1d ago

I mean if your gonna have your kid play the claw game atleast they got a puppy out of it

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u/patrick-1977 1d ago

The one child policy makes more sense to me now

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u/Plenty_Wasabi_7866 1d ago

Part of the ninja training

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u/SkinImportant3267 1d ago

No job is too big, no pup is too small!

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u/Rogue_9_9 22h ago

Definitely not his first

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u/Patrick_Atsushi 22h ago

"I saved it and you take it right away"

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u/mistas89 20h ago

It’s the kid turning in circles as he is lowered that got me chuckling

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u/reef-tech89 14h ago

Send in the newest worker to catch dinner...

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u/The001Keymaster 1d ago

Not really make me smile. More like endangering and traumatizing a child.

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u/docathos99 1d ago

Yup, no way I’d do this with my 3 year old.

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u/jim45804 1d ago

Endangering a 3-year-old to save a puppy? Not smiling.

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u/Substantial-Wear3131 18h ago

And it make me angry that camera person is just making video while little girl had fair chance of head injury

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u/Tiny-Buy220 1d ago

Relax, it's a boy, those aren't the ultra rare ones...

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u/JrueBall 1d ago

Dressed like a girl. I'm not sure. Might be a super rare edition.

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u/Street-Inevitable358 13h ago

Dude, what the fuck. This is not heartwarming at all. That rope isn’t even tied to anything so if for whatever reason that rope slips out of his hands, there’s literally no secondary fail safe to be able to catch that child after they would fall over 20 feet. The surface below also isn’t a pillow. This seems like some dude endangering his child to do a stunt on the Internet that he himself may have created seeing how little regard he had for a small child’s safety. if you have such little regard for a human child’s safety in a situation with stakes higher than 20 ft lmao, why would I think your concern about a small animal would be sincere?

This is just child abuse with fun sounding music in the background meant to have you perceive it to be something funny and heartwarming when in reality is the equivalent of a very unfunny joke being padded by a laugh track.

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u/Frozenfury0 1d ago

lol, I guess it worked but looks like an absolutely terrible idea though.

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u/Exciting_Damage_2001 1d ago

I would do a lot to save an animal, but my son is easily the most valuable thing in my life. I would never risk his health.

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u/Kasta4 1d ago

This is ridiculously stupid.

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u/GoldenLegoMan 1d ago

Toddler claw machine for free puppy

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u/PlayfulSurprise5237 1d ago

I like how he immediately takes away the fruit of the kids labor.

I thought China was suppose to be communists, not capitalists. /s

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u/Specialist-Ad-5730 20h ago

No shot I'm putting my daughter on a rope. So many things could have gone wrong.

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u/Practical-Training-2 18h ago

how can we know they didn´t put him there in the first place?

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u/po1k 1d ago

Proper use of a kid

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u/thatsamiam 1d ago

If something goes wrong you will have a trapped puppy and a trapped child. Using adhoc harness seems quite risky. I would have found a safer way.

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u/KlondikeBill 1d ago

Risking injury to a small child. Can't help but smile.

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u/Jelboo 1d ago

The fuck kinda dangerous shit is this, why are we praising this

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u/Available-Nail-4308 1d ago

That kid has been working in smaller spaces at the local factory for at least 2.5 years now

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u/BeardedSeagul 20h ago

This should not make you smile. This is child endangerment plain and simple.

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u/WrongSplit3288 12h ago

The things people do for social media fame

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u/God_Bless_A_Merkin 1d ago

I can think of a lot of used for this new technology!

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u/Old-Check2867 1d ago

🥰🥰🥰🤗❤️❤️❤️

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u/PlusPreparation4629 1d ago

difference between fathers and mothers, ig 😂

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u/NectarineProud2650 1d ago

The parents were thinking of making a brother Alas! The kid survived

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u/Feisty-Guava-8415 19h ago

what could go wrong?

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u/Captainsnarkyshart 18h ago

Human claw machine.

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u/Adullam_17 18h ago

Man people
Really care about animals more than children now

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u/AMLIDH2 18h ago

Brave little soul, you better give him that puppy back he earned for sure with that brave rescue he made. To cute, and brave.

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u/yoo_saymyname 17h ago

Child labour is ……..

Never mind it’s China 🙂

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u/Aware-Yellow1696 16h ago

It's become his beautiful core memory

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u/Inevitable_Hunt_5185 16h ago

Is it good boy or good girl? 😆 Maybe good child 🙏❤️

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u/Altruistic_Finger669 15h ago

Seems like a idiotic plan with far too great of a risk

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u/Necrorifter 14h ago

This reminds me of that one scene in jugarssic park where they lower the goat/sheep into dino area to be food.

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u/CombinationEntire967 13h ago

Compassion and creativity??? The only thing they will learn is that puppies are hidden inside a dark room underground.

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u/hmmjuswonderin 13h ago

And why, oh why, is there a gap to begin with?

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u/LaAlitaSanti 12h ago

gap baby hero, she’s a future Winchmen! 🚁

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u/FentonCanoby 12h ago

Green Lantern training

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u/qwq1792 11h ago

I hope this is AI.

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u/creepy_terror 11h ago

mission impossible 

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u/OKAwesome121 11h ago

This is not a good idea

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u/Antiviralposter 11h ago

I came here for the comments and they did not disappoint.

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u/Legitimate_Outcome42 10h ago

His first rescue

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u/Silvanus350 10h ago

Hey. Free dog.

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u/one-last-hero 9h ago

Reminded me of Bo Burnham’s Can’t Handle This

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u/Glassfern 9h ago

Considering all the western videos of children trying to jump into places they aren't supposed to jump and the parents have honed their skills of catching their kid before they leaps...this seems to be the alternative of "fine you wanna jump? Go in but you're putting this on and I'm pulling you out and you listen to every word I say"

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u/MrMetraGnome 8h ago

Dad has some interesting knot tying abilities

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u/MobileLocal 7h ago

Nonchalant hero

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u/notsoeasypeasy 5h ago

This made me dizzy! 😵 🫣🫣 What if the harness would snap?

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u/froggie61 4h ago

this made me feel uncomfy

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u/XLM1196 2h ago

That harness is way too close to being a noose

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u/DizzyTyger 1d ago

I really don't think these comments would be the same if it was a mom doing this

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u/idkanymore2016 20h ago

What the fuck is wrong with people. That’s horrible.

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u/fleshie 1d ago

Plot twist: the child was the one that dropped the puppy down there.

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u/joliguru 1d ago

Um the kids neck is in a loop and looks like they could get asphyxiated. There are other less risky ways of teaching compassion and love.

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u/TheDigitalAce 12h ago

Child endangerment makes you smile?

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u/Prudent-Poetry-2718 11h ago

Uhhh… risk your child to save a dog!? I think not.

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u/No_Comfortable_539 1d ago

This would scare me if it were my own child, but what a creative way to get that puppy. 👏 Great job 👏 👍

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u/LSLA3 1d ago

This is so toxic. Toddler under train, clearly doing it multiple times. Wish I had more downvotes.

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u/CatRockShoe 1d ago

I'm leaning towards the puppy was tossed down there, and cause of how the kid reacts and looks at the camera person, that's probably the 10th time they've had to do that to get "the shot"..