Man filmed climbing down three-storey building in Hindley St to flee police
When police arrived to arrest a man at a Hindley St unit block, he tried to escape by climbing down the outside of the building and jumping on to the roof of a car. Where an officer was waiting.
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A man has tried to flee police by scaling down a three-storey building in Hindley St and leaping on to the roof of a car – wearing a bright orange hi-vis top the entire time, and finding a waiting police officer on the ground.
Police say just after 9am on Tuesday, patrols went to an apartment building in Hindley St in Adelaide’s CBD searching for a man wanted for various traffic offences and breaching bail earlier in the week.
The alleged offences included driving to evade police, refusing to stop and driving at 152km/h in an 80 zone.
Police set up cordons around the building and then went to a room of the third floor.
Seeing the patrol, the suspect opened a glass sliding door to the balcony and climbed over the railing, dropping down to the second floor balcony below.
Clearly visible in a bright orange hi-vis top, he then climbed down from the second-floor balcony on to the first-storey veranda roof, walked along it and jumped on to the roof of a car parked in Hindley St, damaging the car roof.
A police officer had been watching him the entire time and he was arrested as he jumped to the ground and tried to escape.
A 29-year-old man from Smithfield Plains was charged with driving to evade police, breaching his bail, driving disqualified, driving at a speed dangerous to the public, property damage and hindering police.
He appeared in the Adelaide Magistrates Court on Tuesday and was remanded in custody to appear in July.