Posted on 09/13/2017 10:30:59 AM PDT by BenLurkin
A man who was jumping rooftops in La Puente, evading police for nearly five hours, was finally stopped when a man who lives in the home he was on top of actually climbed up and threw him off the roof.
The moment was captured in a cell phone video that shows 83-year-old Wilford Burgess climbing up a ladder onto the roof of his home, first approaching the man and then pushing him off. Wilford Burgess is seen speaking to KTLA on Sept. 13, 2017. (Credit: KTLA)
Wilford Burgess is seen speaking to KTLA on Sept. 13, 2017. (Credit: KTLA)
It all started when Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies received a call from someone who said they were being followed around 6:30 a.m. in the 14100 block of Beckner Street, officials said. From that call, authorities eventually discovered a man jumping from one rooftop to another as he fled from police.
The roof-jumping went on for several hours as police even brought in a crisis negotiator to try convincing him to come down, officials said.
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Lets just make sure it’s a very high roof.
“Man Jumping Rooftops “
Not so clear... could have been about someone “able to leap tall buildings in a single bound”.
Clickbait. Ain’t bitin’.
oooo, nice!
Instead of building homes so close you can hop from rooftop to rooftop, they should just build one big facility to house what’s left of the middle class in CA.
a lot of middle and lower class tracts have a 5 foot set back from the side property line. can get 5-7 house an acre.
I’ve seen tract houses packed so close together that I’ve considered marketing special narrow-gauge lawnmowers to mow between them...
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