A video of a man dangling from what seems to be a ceiling vent while police hovered beneath him has gone viral, getting over 165,000 views on the Singapore Incidents Facebook page after it was posted on Monday.
Onlookers can also be seen milling around at the time of the incident, which is said to have happened last Saturday at the void deck of an HDB block in Pasir Ris. Reports say that the wannabe Spider-Man or rather Snake-Man was actually arrested and charged with causing a public nuisance because of his curious stunt.
“Burglar, fugitive or stuntman?” reads the caption on the video on the Singapore Incidents Facebook page.
At the beginning of the video, only the man’s arm is clearly visibly, hanging from the vent, while three police officers endeavour to engage with him.
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But after a few seconds, the man lunges, causing his whole upper body to dangle from the vent. He can also be heard yelling, although what he said can’t be understood.
At one point, a police officer is seen to grab the dangling hand. An onlooker attempts to intervene but is directed to move away.
The man then can be seen continuing to behave in a bizarre manner, while other onlookers are escorted away from the immediate vicinity.
Other officers, including those bearing arms, arrive at the scene. The video ends, however, with Muhammed still hanging from the vent.
8world, a TV programme on Channel 8, identified the man as Muhammed Nazir Bin Ahmad, 45. He was arrested at Block 469 in Pasir Ris Drive 6 on Apr 23 at Block 469 at Pasir Ris Drive 6 at 11:26 pm.
The report from 8world added that the man had reportedly used scissors to knock on a window in the corridor of an HDB block.
He faces a fine of as much as S$2,000 or three months in jail if he is convicted of public nuisance.
Many netizens commenting on the Singapore Incidents page said they at first thought it was a snake when they saw his arm dangling from the vent.
One called it “the most ridiculous and hilarious case” the police have ever seen.
Others joked that the man might be auditioning for a role in Mission Impossible or Spider-Man. 
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