PORTLAND (AP) — Authorities have decided not to charge a man they originally said fell to the sidewalk while rappelling down a fire escape after breaking into a Portland flower shop.
The entire episode Saturday night, it turns out, was a stunt gone awry.
Ronald Podlaski told the Portland Press Herald on Monday he was trying to surprise a friend by sneaking up the fire escape and climbing in her apartment window. The 29-year-old Podlaski, an artist who uses the name RookSye, says he got the wrong building and ended up in the florist.
He says he fell from a third-floor window after realizing his mistake and tripping the alarm. He suffered minor injuries.
He says he’d been drinking beer and what he did was “foolish.”
He plans to apologize to the florist.
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