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Indonesia: Man Fearlessly Grabs Snake With Bare Hands in Middle of Road

On March 23, 2026, in Indonesia, a video captured a young man confidently seizing a snake with his bare hands in the middle of a road. Without hesitation, he lifted the snake and began swinging it in wide arcs, displaying remarkable control and composure.

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China: Man Braves Freezing Lake to Rescue Dog Trapped in Ice

A man in Beijing risked his life to rescue a stray dog that had fallen through thin ice into a freezing lake on January 18. Braving the extreme cold, he used his bare hands and body to break a path through the ice, successfully guiding the animal to safety.

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China: Man Climbs 30-Meter Tree to Rescue Stranded Cat

This video shows the heartwarming moment a Chinese man risked his own safety to rescue a helpless cat stranded high above the ground for more than a week. Filmed on December 11, 2025, in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, the footage captures retired veteran Zhang Yuhua climbing a nearly 30-meter-tall metasequoia tree to save a small cat trapped at the top. Using only his bare hands and no professional climbing equipment, Zhang carefully made his way up the towering tree. According to the video, the cat had been stuck there for nine days and was growing visibly weaker. After several tense moments, he reached the cat, secured it, and slowly descended, prompting applause from onlookers. Zhang later said the cat was taken to a temporary foster shelter for care and observation.

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China: Man Stops Runaway Mini Truck Bare-Handed While Holding Child in Hebei

This is the dangerous moment that a man in Hebei, China, used his bare hands to stop a runaway mini truck rolling toward a courtyard while holding a child in his arms. On October 16, 2025, in Hebei, China, the video captured a man rushing forward after noticing a small truck from a neighbor’s house suddenly slipping backward into a residential courtyard. Holding a young child tightly in one arm, he extended his other hand toward the vehicle and managed to stop it from rolling further down the slope.

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China: Foal Rescued from Mud Pit in Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia

A foal was found struggling to escape from a deep mud pit, its legs completely submerged and unable to move, in Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia, on July 18. The video shows a group of Chinese tourists and local herdsmen working together with their bare hands to rescue the foal.

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Tensions Rise In Gaza

A man searches through rubble with his bare hands in Gaza City, Palestine, on May 18, 2025. Rescue efforts continue after Israeli airstrikes reduced residential buildings to ruins overnight. Photo by Youssef Alzanoun/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Over 1,800 cats straying on elevated roads saved in Shanghai

STORY: Over 1,800 cats straying on elevated roads saved in Shanghai DATELINE: April 4, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:59 LOCATION: SHANGHAI, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of rescuing stray cats 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): YU BIN, Shanghai Tunnel Engineering Co., Ltd. 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): WANG XIAOQUAN, Shanghai Tunnel Engineering Co., Ltd. STORYLINE: In Shanghai, a team operated by Shanghai Tunnel Engineering Co., Ltd. has provided assistance and shelter to cats lost on elevated roads for more than a decade. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): YU BIN, Shanghai Tunnel Engineering Co., Ltd. "We've been saving cats for over 10 years. When we started rescuing stray cats, we didn't have much experience. We just grabbed them with our bare hands, or we didn't wear protective gloves well. Sometimes we were scratched or bitten by them. Gradually we've gained experience and equipped ourselves with some tools." SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): WANG XIAOQUAN, Shanghai Tunnel Engineering Co., Ltd. "As of March 2023, we had dispatched

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Post-2000s hand-fried tea maker in E. China's tea village

STORY: Post-2000s hand-fried tea maker in E. China's tea village DATELINE: March 21, 2023 LENGTH: 0:01:11 LOCATION: HANGZHOU, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): ZHANG YICHENG, Longjing tea maker STORYLINE: SOUNDBITE (Chinese): ZHANG YICHENG, Longjing tea maker "My name is Zhang Yicheng. I'm 21 years old, a post-2000s tea maker. In Tongwu Village of Longwu Town, Hangzhou, where the top-level West Lake Longjing Tea is produced, almost every household makes a living by growing and making tea. Tea frying is the core procedure of premium tea making. It contains the experience and wisdom of generations over the past century. Frying tea with bare hands, burn blisters are not something rare. But I take them as unique 'medals' for tea makers, with a sense of achievement. Tea frying is widely considered a tough job, and my master was once worried that this skill would be lost. However, in recent years, more and more young people of my age have set foot in this field, following in the steps of

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CHINA-LIAONING-JINZHOU-PEASANT COUPLE-ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION (CN)

(230312) -- SHENYANG, March 12, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Tian Wangui (R) and his wife Lu Min (L) help a girl plant a tree at "Lu Ling," which in Chinese refers to the mountain that herons inhabit, in Linghai of Jinzhou City, northeast China's Liaoning Province, June 3, 2022. In northeastern China's Liaoning Province, a peasant couple spent nearly half a century magically transforming two barren mountains into a leafy paradise for birds, creating an epic tale with their bare hands. TO GO WITH "Feature: Turning bald mountains into green, a couple's 40-yr odyssey" (Xinhua)

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CHINA-LIAONING-JINZHOU-PEASANT COUPLE-ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION (CN)

(230312) -- SHENYANG, March 12, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Tian Wangui (L) and his wife Lu Min (R) patrol over "Lu Ling," which in Chinese refers to the mountain that herons inhabit, in Linghai of Jinzhou City, northeast China's Liaoning Province, Feb. 10, 2023. In northeastern China's Liaoning Province, a peasant couple spent nearly half a century magically transforming two barren mountains into a leafy paradise for birds, creating an epic tale with their bare hands. TO GO WITH "Feature: Turning bald mountains into green, a couple's 40-yr odyssey" (Xinhua)

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CHINA-LIAONING-JINZHOU-PEASANT COUPLE-ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION (CN)

(230312) -- SHENYANG, March 12, 2023 (Xinhua) -- People view and take pictures of egrets and herons at "Lu Ling," which in Chinese refers to the mountain that herons inhabit, in Linghai of Jinzhou City, northeast China's Liaoning Province, April 30, 2022. In northeastern China's Liaoning Province, a peasant couple spent nearly half a century magically transforming two barren mountains into a leafy paradise for birds, creating an epic tale with their bare hands. TO GO WITH "Feature: Turning bald mountains into green, a couple's 40-yr odyssey" (Xinhua)

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CHINA-LIAONING-JINZHOU-PEASANT COUPLE-ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION (CN)

(230312) -- SHENYANG, March 12, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Herons are pictured at "Lu Ling," which in Chinese refers to the mountain that herons inhabit, in Linghai of Jinzhou City, northeast China's Liaoning Province, May 4, 2022. In northeastern China's Liaoning Province, a peasant couple spent nearly half a century magically transforming two barren mountains into a leafy paradise for birds, creating an epic tale with their bare hands. TO GO WITH "Feature: Turning bald mountains into green, a couple's 40-yr odyssey" (Xinhua)

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Tourists flock to fish on ice at S. Korea's popular winter festival

STORY: Tourists flock to fish on ice at S. Korea's popular winter festival DATELINE: Jan. 8, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:29 LOCATION: HWACHEON, South Korea CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of ice fishing 2. various of bare-handed fishing 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Korean): PARK ON-YOU, Tourist 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Korean): LEE KEUN-KYU, Tourist 5. SOUNDBITE 3 (Korean): CHOI MOON-SOON, Hwacheon Mayor STORYLINE: Around 130,000 local and foreign tourists flocked to fish on ice and snatch fish with bare hands at one of the most popular South Korean winter festivals that opened on Saturday in Hwacheon county, about 120 km northeast of the capital Seoul. The Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival was scheduled to last until Jan. 29 with the theme of "Never freezing warm-heartedness, never melting memories" as visitors were allowed to fish on top of the ice for Sancheoneo, a mountain trout that is known for living in the first-class fresh water. Since 2003, the winter festival had been held every January in the remote mountainous count

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Sushi is best made with bare hands: LA sushi owner

LOS ANGELES, United States - Toshiaki Toyoshima, owner of sushi restaurant "Sushigen," checks the freshness of the tuna with a bare hand in Los Angeles, California, in July 2014, as wearing gloves is no longer mandatory.

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Sushi chefs in California have hands full with new law

LOS ANGELES, United States - Toshiaki Toyoshima (L), a 66-year-old owner of popular restaurant Sushi Gen, watches an employee making sushi with gloves at his restaurant in Los Angeles, the United States, on Feb. 4, 2014. Under a new California law implemented Jan. 1, food employees are not allowed to contact "ready-to-eat" foods with their bare hands except when washing fruits and vegetables.

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Sushi chefs in California have hands full with new law

LOS ANGELES, United States - An employee at popular restaurant Sushi Gen in Los Angeles, the United States, picks up sushi with gloves on Feb. 4, 2014. Under a new California law implemented Jan. 1, food employees are not allowed to contact "ready-to-eat" foods with their bare hands except when washing fruits and vegetables.

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Centurion (2010)

Michael Fassbender Characters: Quintus Dias Film: Centurion (UK/FR 2010) Director: Neil Marshall 15 February 2010 Date: 15 February 2010

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City Of Angels (1998)

Nicolas Cage Characters: Seth Film: City Of Angels (USA/DE 1998) Director: Brad Silberling 10 April 1998 Date: 10 April 1998

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Curse Of The Pink Panther (1983)

Ted Wass Characters: Sergeant Clifton Sleigh Film: Curse Of The Pink Panther (1983) Director: Blake Edwards 12 August 1983 Date: 12 August 1983

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Girls standing hand in hand

A full portrait of three girls. The three are dressed up and wear sandals on bare feet. They are holding hands, but the girl in the centre is crossing hands in front of her and holding her left hand with the girl on the right, and holding her right hand with the girl on her left, so it looks unnatural.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:[R. Stillfried], (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number27‐26‐0]

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Step Barefoot On The Knife Ladder

A young man of the Wa ethnic group climbs a knife ladder with his bare hands in Huangshan city, east China's Anhui province, April 10, 2021.

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Step Barefoot On The Knife Ladder

A young man of the Wa ethnic group climbs a knife ladder with his bare hands in Huangshan city, east China's Anhui province, April 10, 2021.

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Step Barefoot On The Knife Ladder

A young man of the Wa ethnic group climbs a knife ladder with his bare hands in Huangshan city, east China's Anhui province, April 10, 2021.

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Step Barefoot On The Knife Ladder

A young man of the Wa ethnic group climbs a knife ladder with his bare hands in Huangshan city, east China's Anhui province, April 10, 2021.