Police officer in China blasts out Peppa Pig cartoon theme from rooftop, locates missing autistic child after hours-long search
- Boy, 8, has intellectual disabilities, goes missing, mother frantic
- Search party lasts 6 hours, officer has musical light bulb moment
A young police officer in China who cleverly used music from the Peppa Pig cartoon to find a missing child has won widespread praise on mainland social media.
On February 16, police in southeastern China’s Jiangxi province received a call about an eight-year-old child with autism, surnamed Lu, who had gone missing from a residential complex.
An officer called Xu Haozhan promptly headed to the scene to begin a search.
“The child’s mother told us he has autism and some intellectual disabilities. We inquired about the child’s physical characteristics and what he was wearing, then started searching,” Xu told China Jiangxi radio and television station.
“Unfortunately, the surveillance cameras in that building, as well as the cameras in the lift, were broken, so we could not see whether he had gone out or where he might have gone,” Xu said.