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BANGKOK (AFP) A Thai fireman turned superhero when he dressed up as comic-book character Spider-Man to coax a frightened eight-year-old from a balcony, police said Tuesday.

Teachers at a special needs school in Bangkok alerted authorities on Monday when an autistic pupil, scared of attending his first day at school, sat out on the third-floor ledge and refused to come inside, a police sergeant told AFP.

Despite teachers' efforts to beckon the boy inside, he refused to budge until his mother mentioned her son's love of superheroes, prompting fireman Sonchai Yoosabai to take a novel approach to the problem.

The rescuer dashed back to his fire station and made a quick change into a Spider-Man costume before returning to the boy, he said.

"I told him Spider-Man is here to rescue you, no monsters are going to attack you and I told him to walk slowly towards me as running could be dangerous," Somchai told local television.

The young boy immediately stood up and walked into his rescuer's arms, police said.

Somchai said he keeps the Spider-Man costume and an outfit of Japanese television character Ultraman at the station in order to liven up school fire drills.



Do you think this guy is smart or just crazy for having super-hero costumes in his workplace just in case any children need help? 



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dude, totally smart. it upsets me that anyone would call him crazy for having the judgement to save save young children, who sometimes dont know that theyre in danger.


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It's not that he's smart (or crazy), he kept the suits around to liven up fire drills for kids. But you could say he was pretty resourceful for using the costumes to help this kid out.

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Thaiderman.

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i think hes smart, and this is pretty cool!!

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I think that was pretty convienant and intresting.

-- Edited by Ankz on Tuesday 24th of March 2009 05:46:17 PM

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i think he's crazy who knows any body that basically carries a superhero costume in thier back pocket unless ur a liittle kid.

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i agree with john,,its a good idea..and i think it definently helped the kid to saftely. pretty clever

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haha, thats pretty smart.
a new interesting idea to save children.

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Bam wrote:

i think he's crazy who knows any body that basically carries a superhero costume in thier back pocket unless ur a liittle kid.



 From the article: Somchai said he keeps the Spider-Man costume and an outfit of Japanese television character Ultraman at the station in order to liven up school fire drills.



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The article says that he keeps the superhero costumes at the station in order to liven up school fire drills, not because he enjoys dressing up as Spider-man on his own leisure time. I don't think he's crazy. In this case, the kid responded to the unrealistic ideas of superheroes and if that lead this child to safety, than by all means, do whatever you have to do.

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Co Captian Bwall. wrote:

i agree with john,,its a good idea..and i think it definently helped the kid to saftely. pretty clever



 yeah



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This guy is a fo real hero.. That was so smart of him to do that


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Snackycakes wrote:

Thaiderman.


WAY funny!! :)

 



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why is there a spiderman costume in a thai fire station?

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Props to the firefighter for using the costume to lure the child to safety. It was definitely smart not crazy.

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To liven up school fire drills! :) even though it sounds a little crazy it worked! and i think thats all that matters.

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Way cool! who gets the chance to say 'I was resuced by spiderman'? 


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i think this guy is a real hero....yea it might be a litlle weird that he just has super hero costumes lying around to liven up fire drills...but it worked and its true this kid can actually say he was rescued by spiderman

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Regardless of why or how they got it, I give the guy props for thinking of it in that kid of situation. I know i would never think of something that crazy if i was in that guys shoes.

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snaggletooth.jpg
I wonder if the boy had a snaggletooth as well?


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ich_binJason wrote:

snaggletooth.jpg
I wonder if the boy had a snaggletooth as well?


I hope there was no rainy-upside down thank you kiss
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finally there are good things coming in the news. obviously the suit came in handy, and i guess people are aloud to have costumes if they want. it doesn't make him crazy. it was a good thing he did for that kid.

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