WATCH: Man jumps off roof to escape police
This is no action-movie-scene and there was no safety net.
They say desperate times call for desperate measures but surely most of the time there is still some kind of planning happening with these decisions.
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However, sometimes you've just run out of time and there's nothing to do but follow your gut instinct.
Like an unidentified man in the UK who had the police hot and his tail and so he did the only thing, he could think of.
So he jumped off a roof.
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The West Midlands recently received a tip-off and decided to investigate further.
They headed to a property in Walsall and discovered 70 cannabis plants but while they were preoccupied the suspect made his escape.
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While they continued conducting their search the suspect climbed out onto the roof from inside the house.
A nearby eye-witness was able to capture the drama unfold and in the video, you can see the man standing on the roof.
As he did so the police gathered down below on the street but soon he slips, launches off of the roof, dislodges a few roof tiles and lets out quite a scream.
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After the man hit the ground, narrowly avoiding a police officer, they approach him and tell him to "stay down".
We acted on intelligence and discovered around 70 cannabis plants at an address in High Street, Bloxwich, just after 11.30am (22 July). During a search of the property a man inside the premises climbed onto the roof and fell. He has been taken to hospital with injuries which are not believed to be life-threatening. He has been arrested on suspicion of cultivating cannabis and will be questioned when considered medically fit.
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You can watch the video below:
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The clear lesson here is: do not try this at home and crime is bad!
If you avoid doing bad things you won't have to jump off any roofs any time soon.
Or ever...
Main image courtesy of SWNS YouTube