8-Year-Old Girl Searching for Grandfather Presses Button 'Firmly' at Bank ATM... Here's Why

Story of 8-Year-Old Chinese Girl Who Almost Got Lost Gains Attention
Uses Quick Thinking at ATM to Find Guardian

An 8-year-old Chinese girl who got lost but cleverly found her guardian has become a hot topic. On the 19th (local time), the Hong Kong South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported, "On the 30th of last month, in Quzhou City, Zhejiang Province, southeastern China, an 8-year-old girl lost her way after finishing a dance academy class and walking home with her grandfather who came to pick her up, but at some point, she lost hold of her grandfather's hand."

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Left alone, Ms. A wandered briefly but then noticed a nearby bank with its lights on and headed there. CCTV footage inside the bank shows Ms. A approaching the ATM inside. After looking around for a while, she pressed the red emergency button on the side of the ATM, which connected her to bank staff.

This ATM has two emergency support buttons: 'Emergency Call' and 'Emergency Alarm.' The emergency call button allows direct communication with the bank's monitoring center. The alarm button is designed to quickly alert the police in case of theft, robbery, or other emergencies at the ATM.

Zhou Dongying, a Commercial Bank employee who received the call, assessed Ms. A's situation and immediately reported it to the police. Zhou reassured Ms. A by saying, "The police are on their way, so stay put and don't move." Soon after, the police arrived on the scene, and Ms. A was reunited with her family who had been looking for her. Netizens who heard the story responded with comments such as "Unexpected use of the ATM" and "The child is amazing."

Previously, there was another case in China where the ATM emergency button, designed to quickly notify authorities in urgent situations, was used effectively. In February 2021, in Xianning, Hubei Province, central China, a 5-year-old boy lost his mother in a supermarket and pressed the emergency button on the side of an ATM. The connected staff contacted the local police station, which helped reunite the boy with his mother.

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