A walk-in emergency room patient at San Antonio Medical Center was rescued from underneath an HVAC system earlier this week after inexplicably deciding to climb into the hospital's ceiling, Upland police said.
Sergeant Jacob Kirk with the Upland Police Department told KNX News' Emily Valdez that hospital staff called police when the patient went missing after a trip to the restroom.
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Sergeant Kirk said that when officers arrived, "they went to the restroom to check and found the ceiling tiles were missing, some things were bent, and there was a smoke detector that was broken."
The man, who refused to share why he went into the ceiling, got himself wedged underneath an HVAC system so tightly that the fire department was called to cut him out.
After a bit of coaxing, the man was safely removed from the ceiling, arrested, and is facing felony vandalism charges.
The Upland Police Department shared a...creative edit of some of the footage from the incident on X.
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