A suspected burglar had to call for police to come to his own crime scene, when an attempt to break into a takeaway chicken restaurant went wrong.
Response officer PC Matthew Willocks snapped a picture of the hapless suspect, who had endured 7 hours with his feet sticking out of the vent after crawling in.
He said: “The extractor unit had been removed and the suspect had climbed into the extractor outlet at around 2 am.”
“He was completely stuck and couldn’t move at all,” he said according to the WM Police statement.
“The fire brigade had to come in and use the jaws of life to pull back all the extractor casing to release him.”
He was finally freed at 9 am from the vent at DFC Chicken, on Rookery Road, in Handsworth.The local man, 45, from Handsworth, was taken to hospital for a check-up and has been arrested on suspicion of burglary, police said.
