Spider-Man came to the rescue when a boy with autism in Thailand refused to come down from a third floor ledge.

The boy got nervous on his first day at a school for children with disabilities. When school officials could not get the boy to come down, they called the fire department.

But the firefighters didn’t have any luck either until the boy’s mother mentioned his love of superheroes. So a firefighter dressed up as Spider-Man and soon enough the boy was safe on the ground.

“I told him Spider-Man is here to rescue you, no monsters are going to attack you and I told him to walk slowly towards me as running could be dangerous,” the fireman said on local television, according to AFP. To read more click here.

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