A busy Dundee street was closed to Sunday shoppers because a man had climbed on to the roof to escape police.
Police closed the Seagate to traffic after the man was spotted on top of a five-storey building.
It is understood the man lived in the tenement and climbed out in a bid to avoid police, who wanted to speak to him in relation to a separate incident.
Instead of making a getaway, he then found himself trapped with dozens of emergency service workers on the ground below.
Eyewitnesses said the man was on the roof of a five-storey building above William Hill around 11.30am.
Officers closed the Seagate between its junction with St Andrews Street and its junction with Commercial Street, although pedestrians were still able to pass by.
Scottish Fire and Rescue sent an aerial ladder to assist in bringing the man down. For a time the man could be seen sitting on the roof speaking to firefighters in the ladder.
Dozens of bemused Sunday morning shoppers stopped to watch the incident unfold.
One said: “The police arrived around 11am but some people said he had been up there since about nine o’clock. He’s just sitting there.”
Police cleared the street shortly after noon in order to bring the man down. The street was cleared as he was said to be “too embarrassed” to be brought down in front of onlookers.
He was lifted to safety around 12.30pm and detained by police.
