The Baby Catcher

Every year, almost 4,000 kids under the age of 10 suffer injuries from window falls. After all is said and done, that seems like a lot. And that might be the cause of the strange coincidence that happened to Joseph Figlock in 1938. Figlock reportedly worked as a street sweeper in Detroit. He was passing a building one day as he walked down the street when a baby fell from somewhere above him. Both of them were hurt when the youngster fell on Figlock, but they both made it through.

While Figlock was clearing out an alley a year later, a toddler who was two years old again fell from a fourth-story window and landed on Figlock. The same outcome as earlier occurred, with Figlock cushioning the falls sufficiently for the youngster to survive.

This story may be told again with embellished details, like how the same baby fell on Figlock exactly one year later and he caught it both times. The initial reports made no mention of such specifics and, in fact, stated that one kid was a male and the other was a girl.