‘Yiyi, yaya’: toddler found lost in basement car park in China uses baby talk to direct police to find dad, delighting social media
- Mainland social media is delighted by a video of a police officer trying to understand directions from a lost toddler using baby talk to navigate
- Footage from the officer’s body cam shows the pair using stairs, corridors and a lift together as they try to find her family in a residential building
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A video of a lost two-year-old in China directing a police officer with baby talk as they roam an apartment building seeking her family has delighted mainland social media.
The unnamed girl from Hangzhou in Zhejiang province, eastern China, successfully guided the officer to her father after she became lost in the underground car park of a large residential building, Xinhua News Agency reported.
A police body cam video showed the officer and the girl navigating through the car park as the toddler pointed to doors and lifts to show him the way.
The little girl babbles away in baby talk and points throughout the video as she tries to communicate directions to the officer.
“Did you arrive here by bus or car?” the officer asked the girl.
“Yiyi, yaya,” the toddler answered.
She then pointed at a lift door. Holding the girl with one arm, the officer walked over but then the girl pointed at a nearby staircase and directed the officer to use it instead.
“Go up from here?” the officer asked.
“Um,” the girl said.
They climbed the stairs to the ground floor, stopped, and the girl turned and pointed her finger at a lift next to the stairs.
“This is a lift,” the officer said.
“Um,” the toddler said again.
The toddler then leaned forward to push the button to get the lift. As they entered the lift, the officer continued to ask the girl for directions.
“Which floor is it?” he asked her.
The toddler answered with baby talk but pressed a lift button at the same time.
The officer then tried to check if this was the correct floor: “The second or the fourth floor?”
After the toddler indicated that it was the fourth floor, the officer finally understood. He was confused when they exited the lift and found the floor deserted.
The toddler then pointed her finger to the right, indicating they should go in that direction.
“Are you sure?” the officer asked.
The toddler did not answer but kept looking and leaning forward in the same direction as people became visible further along the corridor.
“Dad, dad,” the toddler said to a man who approached her and the officer.
The man took the toddler in his arms and explained to the officer that he thought his daughter was playing with other children on the fourth floor.
Mainland social media users were delighted by the toddler’s confident baby-talk directions.
One person said: “The girl is so adorable!”
Another person commented: “A careless father. What if the police officer had not found the girl?”
