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The above footage comes from Seattle, where police patrolling the streets during May Day protests found a shirtless man dangling from a hoop in a public basketball court. It’s not quite “how many _____ does it take to screw in a lightbulb,” but it’s not far off. All the assembled police officers eventually needed to call in the fire department to extricate the man, according to MyFox.
Why were so many officers on hand for such a minor issue? It might have been due to the man flailing wildly while hanging:
But still, anyone who’s seen Cops knows that wild flailing is all in a day’s work for a police officer. It doesn’t quite justify the phalanx that was present. To get that many officers on a basketball court outside of a charity game, I imagine there were lots of exchanges over the police radio that went a little like this:
“Dispatch, this is car 54.”
“Go ahead, 54.”
“We’ve got a, uh … a white male stuck in a basketball hoop down at [street name] and [street name].”
“A man stuck? Do you require assistance?”
“Sure, probably. Tell car 80, they should get a kick out of this.”
And repeat a couple of times until the whole precinct is at that basketball court, all chuckling and watching a (probably drunk) man pretzel himself 10 feet off the ground. But they did eventually get him down, and in tweeting the news, confirmed that they all had a good laugh about it.
Shirtless man removed from Cal Anderson basketball hoop. He may be arrested for property destruction, or at least goal-tending.
— Seattle Police Department (@SeattlePD) May 2, 2015
MyFox reports that police are “still deciding whether to charge the man for any wrong-doing,” and that is truly a tough call.
(Via MyFox Boston and SB Nation)