Naked Man Cut From Bathroom Wall In New York Theater: Report

SYRACUSE, NY — A naked man was rescued by firefighters last week after he became trapped for several days in the bathroom wall of the historic Landmark Theatre in Syracuse, according to reports.

Firefighters told Syracuse.com the man had gotten into a crawl space where he hid for two days before falling into a space behind the men’s bathroom wall, where he became trapped. When firefighters cut through the wall to rescue him, they found the man completely naked.

The man was taken to the hospital for evaluation but was not visibly injured.

While naked people in walls aren’t something firefighters stumble upon often, this certainly isn’t the first time.

This summer, firefighters in Santa Ana, California, rescued a naked woman who was wedged between two commercial buildings, according to KTLA. And in 2017, firefighters in Napa, California, had to cut into an exterior wall of a fast-food restaurant to rescue a naked man who had fallen from the roof and gotten stuck in an empty space measuring no more than a square foot, the Napa Valley Register reported.

In Syracuse, staff spotted the 39-year-old man wandering around the theater earlier in the week, employees told Syracuse.com. When they lost track of them, they told the website they assumed he had left the building.

He hadn’t.

Days later, an employee called 911 when they heard someone in the building calling for help.

“I don’t know if he was entering to keep warm or to use the bathroom. I don’t know,” theater executive director Mike Intaglietta told Syracuse.com.

He had been seen wandering around the theater earlier in the week, said Mike Intaglietta, executive director of the theatre. Employees who had seen the man lost track of him and thought he had left the building, he said.