By Ollie Gillman for MailOnline
A construction worker was left dangling 100ft above the ground after a 10-year-old boy cut the man's safety rope because he was drowning out his cartoons.
The unnamed boy, from Guizhou, southern China, got fed up of not being able to hear his TV because of the work on Monday, so he cut the man's safety rope, leaving him hanging eight storeys up for 40 minutes.
The man, called Mr Liu, yelled to his colleague to call the fire brigade after he became suspended in mid-air.
Hanging by a rope: Mr Liu was left dangling eight storeys above ground before he was rescued by firemen
Rescued: Firemen and police officers hauled the construction worker through an 11th floor window on Monday
Mr Zhang, his colleague, heard him shout as they installed outdoor landscape lights for the apartment complex and called the fire brigade, Shanghaiist reported.
Emergency workers rushed to the scene and painstakingly hauled Liu up on to an 11th floor balcony, as the residents living on the ninth and 10th floors weren't at home.
Mr Liu said: 'When I was using the electric drill, I felt my lower rope shaking. Then I saw the boy cutting the rope with a knife.
'I shouted at him to stop but he didn't listen and soon after, the rope was broken. That's when I called to my workmate for help.'
After speaking with police, the boy finally came clean and admitted cutting the rope.
His father, Mr Tang, was called home from work and returned to see Mr Liu being hauled to his safety.
He apologised on behalf of his son, and bought him a new safety rope as compensation.
The boy cut the rope with a knife after the construction work drowned out the cartoons he was trying to watch
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