This is the moment a worried man smashes a car window in order to rescue an unconscious child despite criticism from the parents.
The video was taken when a crowd gathered around the taxi that was parked in a car parking in Chengdu which is a sub-provincial city which serves as the capital of the Chinese province of Sichuan.
The husband and wife who owned the taxi had left their child inside together with the keys, and people were worried that the child was suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning as they failed to wake up despite people banging on the door and shouting.
After a heated debate, eventually, a man who was eating at a nearby restaurant came over and offered to pay for the window if he was allowed to free the boy by breaking the window.
The man, identified only by the surname Lin, said he was amazed when the parents refused, despite the fact that the boy’s life was potentially at risk.
Eventually, as the boy continued to ignore the knocking of people, Lin, who was wearing white, can be seen smashing a window with a hammer and opening the door to remove the child, who does indeed seem to be groggy and confused once pulled out of the vehicle.
But the ungrateful parents criticised Mr Lin for causing the damage and also alleged that he had terrified the child, who had simply been sleeping, by smashing the window and dragging him out onto the road.
They later complained that he had invaded their privacy by posting a video which had attracted a storm of criticism for the parents, who appeared to put the cost of the broken window above the life of their own child.
It attracted 28,000 largely favourable comments in support of the window-breaking Mr Lin.
