Burnaby, British Columbia — A woman fell through a restaurant ceiling while attempting an elaborate escape as part of a dine and dash scheme, investigators said.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police released video Thursday of a March incident where a woman, who has not been identified, tried to crawl through a ceiling vent in a bathroom to get out of paying the bill, Global News reported.
The restaurant manager called police who arrived and could hear the woman crawling along the ceiling tiles in the kitchen. She then fell through the ceiling and landed near an officer who took her into custody.
This dine and dasher just dropped!⬇️ Trying to skip out on the restaurant bill, she crawled above the kitchen cieling from the washroom. Luckily she wasn't hurt when she fell through the cieling tiles and landed right in front of our #BurnabyFrontline officers! #Gravity #Foundyou pic.twitter.com/eJYC1jIod3
— Burnaby RCMP (@BurnabyRCMP) October 29, 2020
The woman did not need medical attention. The restaurant did not press charges because of her “life circumstances and struggles.”
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