When the elevator doors closed on his pet dog’s leash, a courageous young man grabbed its leash and risked his life to save it.
On August 23, in the Brazilian town of Goiania, a child wearing bare feet and walking a dog named Milu fails to notice when the doors are closed on the leash.
until the lift begins to move, the unwary 11-year-old Thiago Magalhaes is seen staring into the mirror until he realizes that the lead is stuck in the door.
As the dog is raised into the air, he quickly turns around and catches the leash in his hands. A few seconds later, the boy and the leash are raised into the air.
His additional weight seems to have set off an alert, causing the seventh-floor elevator to abruptly stop. The child is only a moment away from having his hands and the dog’s body slam against the door.
The youngster tries to take off the harness so the lift may continue its voyage, but he hangs in midair and won’t let go until the small dog is released and lands on the earth a second before him.
He was subsequently released after pressing the emergency button when it stayed stuck.
“I don’t know where I got the courage, I went on impulse,” Thiago remarked in a post-event interview with local media.
“I was very scared by what happened and realized that the situation was very serious and that it could have been fatal for both the dog and my son,” said Rodrigo Magalhaes, the boy’s father, who expressed his horror upon seeing the footage.
