A chilling video shows the moment a bunk bed collapsed and nearly impaled a Texas toddler sleeping below — prompting his quick-thinking sister to rush to his rescue.
The pulse-pounding footage shows the older sister sleeping on the top bunk as spiked metal rods holding it up suddenly crash down onto the small boy.
“You ok? Oh my God!” the horrified sister yells.
She then pulls the mattress off her brother and calls for her mother to help, prompting their grandmother to run in and rescue the boy.
A third child was seen sleeping in a toddler’s bed nearby before waking to the sound of the imploding bunk.
The viral video, which was shared on TikTok, had raked in 82 million views and five million likes as of Friday — with commenters praising the young girl as a hero.
“Older sister mode immediately,” one observer wrote.
“The way the spikes went ALL around him,” another commenter wrote.
“What in the final destination!” another quipped, referencing the horror movie’s stomach-turning impalement scene.
The children’s mom, Aurora Price, posted a follow-up TikTok video, saying all of her kids are OK, and accepting responsibility for building the bed herself.
“I was proud of myself for building a bunk bed,” Price said. “Clearly, I either did something wrong — it’s cheaply made, it’s from Amazon. There’s a bunch of reasons why it could have fell.”
“My mother is the one who reacted. That wasn’t me,” she said. “She got in the room first, I was behind her, and she handled the situation very calmly — which was needed, because my daughter was already terrified.”
“I know that if I was the one who walked in first and saw that, oh my God, it would have been horrible,” she continued. “I would have been screaming and crying and f-ing throwing up,” she added. “It was a very scary moment.”
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