As I mentioned on another forum where I saw this video, it seems a shame she went to all that work and didn't get a toy.
On the other hand...that's some fine parenting going on there, huh?
Kids that age should never be out of their parents' sight in public, IMHO.
I once rescued a kid (maybe a year or so older than the one in the video) at Universal Studios Citywalk here in LA. This kid was playing around at the bottom of a long outdoor escalator, and she decided to grab the moving handrail on the outside of the escalator. Before she knew what was happening, she was pulled off the ground and was headed towards the top, about 30 feet high. While a large crowd just stood around gawking with their thumbs up their collective rears, I ran up the escalator, reached over the rail, and lifted the kid to safety before she fell (at that point, about 20 feet, onto concrete).
When I brought the kid (by now in tears) down the return escalator, her mom was giving me the evil eye, as if I'd tried to steal her kid. (Granted, I'm not the most respectable-looking guy you'll ever see.) Even after the kid's older brother told the mom "That man saved her life", she still looked at me as if I was a pedophile. She didn't thank me at all. I just wanted to smack the mom and congratulate her on her parenting skills.