Call it luck.  Call it fate.  Call it whatever you want, but there’s no denying that it’s a miracle story of survival.  A baby survives an 8-story plunge from an apartment window thanks to, get this, a restaurant awning.  The baby’s fatal fall was broken by a restaurant awning, which bounced the baby into the waiting arms of a passing person on the street.  If it wasn’t for that awning and that great catch, there’d be one less cuddly infant in France.

The 18-month-old boy was left alone with his 3-year-old sister in their parents’ apartment in Paris, while the negligent parents went out for a stroll on Monday, which was apparently a national holiday in France.  That’s when the 18-month-old toddled over to a window and proceeded to test fate by falling out of said window.  As was the case in other miracle survival stories, the only thing that saved the life of the jumper was dumb luck and something to break his fall.

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