What’s more frustrating than trying to reason with a drunk person? Trying to reason with a drunk person whose life might be in danger. Just ask the Fire Services Department (FSD), who spent six long hours yesterday trying to save a bladdered 41-year-old bloke who thought they were out to kill him.
At around midnight yesterday, two young men walking along Choi Hung Road in Wong Tai Sin heard a voice call out for help, and spotted a man chest deep in the waters of Kai Tak Nullah after apparently falling in, Oriental Daily reports. After they called the authorities, firefighters arrived on the scene to found the man, safe (and topless), but in a feat of drunken logic, he perceived the FSD divers as a threat.
Apple Daily reports the man, surnamed Chung, shouted, “Don’t come any closer, the firefighters will kill me!” before darting around the nullah and escaping via a ditch.
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As the FSD divers searched inside the nullah and its various connected streams and drains, firefighters on the ground lifted up manhole covers on the eastbound lane of Prince Edward Road (which covers the nullah) in the hopes of finding Chung.
Eventually, the (now rather muddy) 41-year-old was seen sticking his head out of an exposed manhole at around 6am. After initially refusing to climb out, police negotiated with Chung and lifted him to safety. He was reportedly wearing only underpants and a plastic bag, and smelled strongly of alcohol.
An ambulance took Chung to hospital, where he received treatment for injuries to his arms and legs. He later told authorities that he was on his way home from dinner when he fell into the nullah, and couldn’t remember how he got there as he’d “blacked out” from the whiskey and beer he drank at dinner.
