Autistic Child Rescued From Precarious Perch By A Park Guest At Hershey Park

Posted • September 1, 2025: There's nothing quite like a day with the family at an amusement park. The food, thrill rides, rollercoasters, and rescuing a lost kid that wandered onto a monorail track that was thirty feet off the ground. Okay, that last one doesn't normally come with the price of admission, but that's where a man found himself on Saturday afternoon at Hershey Park in Pennsylvania. A 9-year-old autistic boy had wandered away from his parents and became lost. He walked along the elevated tracks of the park's monorail train. A crowd of concerned onlookers gathered on the ground below the tracks, and not realizing the boy was autistic, began to yell at him to get down. The well-intended crowd appeared to scare and confuse the child as he covered his ears with his hands and began to pace on the edge of the tracks. The boy's situation was looking perilous when a park guest, by the name of John Sampson (unconfirmed), climbed a nearby building to get onto the track and safely grabbed the child as the crowd erupted in applause.

A couple of other men, who have not been identified, had climbed up behind John, and the boy was safely passed down to the ground and reunited with his family shortly after. —— Frightening video captured a young boy who found himself walking along a monorail track high off the ground in Pennsylvania's Hersheypark, with a bystander climbing up to retrieve the boy. The boy was reunited with his family unharmed, the park said. —— A park guest climbed onto a building roof before hopping up onto the monorail track to grab the boy and bring him to safety. —— Park officials said the boy accessed the track through a closed monorail station. […] The park also expressed gratitude for the bystanders whose quick action prevented a possibly tragic outcome. (…)

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