Amusing footage shows frantic villagers nervously rescuing a man from the river whom they thought was already dead, but was actually just having a swim.<br /><br />The homeless man was seen silently floating in a canal before neighbours called the emergency services for help as they assumed he was drowning.<br /><br />Motorist Kholar Phommachan was riding back home after visiting a local mart with a friend in Vientiane, Laos on July 4 when he passed by the commotion and stopped to film it.<br /><br />In the video, a paramedic went down the deep bank using the stairs to reach the floating man. However, they were surprised to see that he is actually just cooling off and not drowning.<br /><br />The volunteers helped the man to step up the shore before giving him water to clean his dirty body. <br /><br />Kholar said he also thought the man drowned in the water and died.<br /><br />He added: "I was surprised but relieved that he was alive. He was probably hot and wanted to have a swim but he does not have a home so he went to the canal."
