When a 17-year-old Indianapolis boy, identified only as Owen, spotted a tabby cat perched 35-feet up a towering tree, he decided he had to rescue the kitty. Unfortunately for the teenager, by the time he got up in the tree, he realized he couldn’t get back down again.

Firefighters soon showed up along with a rope rescue team. An hour later, they managed to get the boy down. curiously, there’s no mention on whether anyone ultimately rescued the cat.

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