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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Wild video showed constabulary officers wrangling a bare antheral who crashed a Fort Lauderdale homeowner’s backyard excavation and wouldn’t get retired for astir 4 hours.
Javier Cavero says the ordeal started Wednesday afternoon. “My roommate sends maine a substance message: ‘Hey, someone’s successful the pool; I’m calling the police.’ I’m similar good - Then I commencement rushing implicit here.”
They fishy the antheral got successful done a gross that was near unlocked.
Video shows the officers arriving astatine the home. They effort hooking the antheral with a excavation skimmer to instrumentality him and drawback him with it.
When that didn’t work, Cavero said they tried lassoing him with the hose, yet pulling him to the ledge.
“I’m conscionable gladsome nary 1 got injured and it was harmless and hopefully helium gets immoderate help,” Cavero said.
Police accidental the antheral was Baker Acted and taken to a hospital.
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