He was eventually arrested for committing a rash act.
\n\nA 47-year-old man alarmed residents when he started throwing large items down from his house in Block 393 Bukit Batok West Avenue 5 on Sep. 21.
\n\nThese items included clothes, shoes, a sofa cushion, a hair dryer, a bicycle, and a child's scooter, according to Shin Min Daily News.
\n\n"At first it started with just shoes, but later even a bicycle was thrown down," a neighbour told Shin Min. "When [the residents] saw that, we rushed to call the police."
\n\nIn response to Mothership's queries, both the police and the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said they received calls for assistance at around 11am.
\n\nThe police later established that the man had locked himself inside his own residential unit and refused to open the door.
\n\nHe was assessed to be posing a danger to himself, prompting officers from the Special Operations Command, Crisis Negotiation Unit, and SCDF to be activated.
\n\nAt about 5:05pm, the police managed to enter his unit and arrested him for committing a rash act.
\n\nSCDF officers deployed two safety life air packs at the bottom of the block.
\n\nRescuers from its Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team (DART)…
Original source: https://mothership.sg/
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