Minion teddy saves girl’s life in three-storey fall

A stuffed teddy bear based on the animated movie Minions is credited with breaking the fall of a five-year-old Colorado girl who only suffered minor injuries after tumbling from a third-storey apartment window, local police have said.

The child was playing in a bedroom when she accidentally fell backwards out of an open window, Colorado Springs police said in a statement.

“Fortunately, when the child fell out of the window she continued holding on to a stuffed Minion teddy bear that is believed to have cushioned her fall,” the statement said.

The girl was transported to a local hospital where she was treated for a broken arm and released, police said.

Colorado Springs police lieutenant Catherine Buckley said it is the fifth incident since May involving a child falling from an open window in the state’s second-largest city.

Minions

Minions follows the adventures of Stuart, Kevin and Bob, three gibberish-speaking characters looking for a villain to serve.

It is a prequel to the 2010 film Despicable Me.

The Universal Pictures film had the second-largest opening ever for an animated movie in North America, according to the trade publication Variety.

The teddy bear incident is the second time toys from the movie have made headlines outside the movie theatre.

Plastic versions of the quirky characters were introduced this month by McDonald’s in its line of Happy Meals toys.

Some customers posted videos online to complain that the talking toys utter an obscenity when tapped on a hard surface to activate a voice recording.

The fast-food chain said in a statement that the allegations that the toys say anything offensive or profane is untrue, and it has no plans to pull them from its restaurants.