The Man Who Kept Catching Babies Falling Out Of Buildings
By remarkably sheer coincidence, Detroit city employee Joseph Figlock saved the lives of of two children in the span of a year after they landed on him after falling out of apartment windows
A horrific nightmare of any parent is having a baby or young child that somehow finds an open window and falls out. Such scenarios have little hope for a positive outcome, that is unless a man named Joseph Figlock was around. That’s because, even though he was an average Joe (literally), out of pure coincidence, he saved falling babies more than once in his life by just happening to be below them and preventing certain peril.
It was reported that Figlock, a street sweeper in Detroit for the Department of Public Works, experienced the most unusual repetition of coincidence. In 1937, he was cleaning a street when a baby girl breached the sill of a fourth-story apartment window and fell to the ground below. Fortunately, it landed squarely on the shoulders of the city employee, and while both suffered injuries, they were not fatal to either.
Approximately, one year later, Figlock was working in a Detroit alley when David Thomas, a two-year-old toddler had almost an identical experience…
