A man who climbed on top of an ambulance at a Miramar intersection and refused to come down for more than an hour Tuesday eventually surrendered.
Miramar Police said the ambulance was responding to a call when the crewspotted the man dancing in the middle of the intersection of Miramar Parkway and U.S. 441.
"He's just a young kid, you can see that he’s mentally challenged, he’s going through something, he just dances in the street in front of all the cars every morning," witness Vivian Caesar said.
The crew stopped and called police for the man's safety and that's when the man climbed on top of the fire rescue vehicle.
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Footage showed the shirtless man walking around on top of the vehicle and even dancing at one point.
Police surrounded the ambulance and worked to get the man to come down. He eventually did and was taken into custody before being taken for a mental evaluation.
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“We were patient for a variety of reasons, we know him, and have had many interactions with him, we didn’t feel that he was a danger to anyone else, only himself," Miramar Police spokesperson Tania Rues said. "We didn’t want to do anything where he may jump off the truck, or fall off the truck, and we didn’t want to cause any injuries or harm to him, so really, we just needed to be patient, build a rapport with him and convince him to come down on his own."
The man, identified as 32-year-old Todd Boothe, has had dozens of interactions with police, officials said. In 2021, viral video showed Boothe climbing to the top of a traffic signal in Miami Beach.
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