Toddler uses steel pipe to defend grandmother from Chinese authorities

A toddler is being hailed as a miniature hero on Chinese social media after he defended his grandmother from urban management officers who were trying to clamp down on illegal street vendors. The video of the toddler standing up to the grown men has gone viral, and shows the boy picking up a long steel pipe, wielding it like a weapon and repeatedly yelling: "Don't touch my grandma!" The boy's actions cracked many eyewitnesses up, but has also earned him plenty of compliments from Chinese netizens for his brazen contempt toward authority. It is not known what actions were taken upon the toddler and his elderly kin.