Seattle Police removed a shirtless man from a basketball hoop on Friday. The man appeared to have gotten himself stuck in the hoop on purpose and resisted police efforts to remove him. The man flailed his arms around wildly and even had a hammer in one hand, KOMO reports.
Chalk this up to something Seattle police weren't expecting during the May Day festivities: A shirtless man stuck in a basketball hoop.
The hammer-wielding man somehow climbed up the hoop at Cal Anderson Park in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood...and became stuck. As nearly a dozen police officers looked on, the man then began thrashing around, at times dangling just by his stuck foot, other times with his head stuck inside the rim, all in an apparent attempt to free his foot.
Police have not decided whether or not to charge the man, but they joked about the possibility on Twitter.
Shirtless man removed from Cal Anderson basketball hoop. He may be arrested for property destruction, or at least goal-tending.
— Seattle Police Dept. (@SeattlePD) May 2, 2015
KOMO said there is no report on why the man got himself stuck in the basketball hoop to begin with.
