Security footage shows the 42-year-old clambering up building to reach third-floor home before losing his grip and tumbling onto car’s bonnet
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UPDATED : Tuesday, 03 May, 2016, 6:07pm
A still from security camera footage at the North Point building. Photo: SCMP Pictures
A German who appeared to be have been drinking heavily fell from a drainpipe while trying to climb into his North Point flat in the early hours of Tuesday, crashing into a signboard and a Mercedes-Benz parked below.
Security camera footage showed the 42-year-old, surnamed Seiel, placing a 1.3-metre-long metal tube on the wall between two ground-floor shops at May Wei Mansion in Fort Street, North Point, shortly after 2am. He then stepped on a bin and started his perilous ascent.
But he lost his grip before reaching his third-floor apartment and tumbled to the ground, hitting the car bonnet and bouncing onto the pavement.
He appeared to be drunk because the video clip showed his footing was unsteady
A police source
“He was probably exhausted and then lost his grasp midway while climbing. He then tumbled down and damaged a signboard on the first floor and a car parked below,” a police source with knowledge of the investigation said.
Seiel then got to his feet, took off his pullover and walked away before finding his way into the flat.
“He appeared to be drunk because the video clip showed his footing was unsteady,” the source said.
He escaped serious injury and did not make a report to police.
The case came to light about eight hours later when a shop worker arrived for work, noticed the damage and called police. Officers said the car was parked there while it was being repaired at a garage.
After checking CCTV footage, police went to the third-floor flat and found the German, who complained of leg pain and was taken toPamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital in Chai Wan for treatment.
He Yunshan, owner of the YCH Treatment Centre massage parlour, said she arrived for work to find the signboard hanging off.
“I called the police and they found the man very quickly,” she said. “The man’s wife said she will pay me back for the damage done to the signboard. She seemed to be a very nice person.”
She said that according to the owner of a laundry next door, the man moved in about six weeks earlier.
“The laundry owner said the man was wandering about outside the building with a big white bed sheet over him at around 10pm,” He said. “I was very worried that the signboard would fall and hit someone.”
Another police source said the man was not arrested because he compensated the signboard owner and garage operator.
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