FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A man who was trying to scale a wrought-iron fenced parking lot around the Fort Lauderdale Police Department was impaled by a 14-inch spike on top of an electronic rolling gate.
Deputy Fire Chief Timothy Heiser said the man's legs were on one side of the gate and his body on the other when nearby rescue crews found him after hearing his screams Sunday night.
Heiser said that a quick-thinking police officer put his handcuffs around the automated entrance gate so it wouldn't open. Heiser said that "very likely saved the guy's life."
Crews had to cut the man free and they took him to the hospital with the fence still around him. He was still in the hospital on Tuesday night.
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