VIDEO: Hamilton man spends hours hanging from a lamppost at Main and MacNab
- Craig Clark
- 08 May 2020
Social media was abuzz in Hamilton last night after a video was posted showing the intersection at Main and MacNab near the MacNab Transit Terminal shut down due to a large police presence.
Originally posted by Twitter user @eaglockhart, the video shows a collection of emergency vehicles at an intersection downtown. Other users were quick to follow-up with comments stating that the Hamilton Police Department was responding to a man in crisis.
#HamOnt something serious going on at Family Court. pic.twitter.com/y1QXEdUFlw
— The Watch that ends the Night (@eaglockhart) May 7, 2020
It turns out an individual climbed on top of a bus then jumped onto a lamppost. Images posted by Twitter users showed a man clutching a lamppost high enough that he could seriously injure himself if he fell or were to jump.
Around 11 pm, Twitter user @ACollinsPhoto posted that Hamilton Police got the man down safely and put him in custody after a seven hour stand-off as they were finding a way to safely get him down.
.@HamiltonPolice have one person under arrest after a 7 hour standoff involving a person in crisis who climbed a light pole. Male in custody and uninjured #HamOnt https://t.co/r6EOEJGB4Q
— Andrew Collins (@ACollinsPhoto) May 8, 2020
Emergency vehicles shutdown the roads in the Main and MacNab area for several hours as they were dealing with the incident.
The video also made it to the Hamilton Subreddit where people were following the ongoing situation as details were released by other social media users.
As of Friday morning, there hasn’t been any information released about the man or the incident. But, with speculative Redditors stoking the narrative, people acting bizarrely during a time of crisis is a common situation for the Hamilton Police Department.
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