WATCH: Man In Underwear Climbs On Texas Overpass Sign, Shuts Down Traffic

A man in Houston climbed onto an overpass sign, wearing nothing but his underwear, and shut down traffic for nearly and hour, police said, as they negotiated him down and eventually took him into custody.

Around 10:25 p.m. Tuesday, the man climbed onto the sign over US-59, Houston Police Department spokesperson Jodi Silva told Patch.

The department sent hostage negotiators and mental health officers to the scene and shut down the freeway in both directions.

The Houston Chronicle reported that the man was threatening to jump and said he “wanted to go back to El Salvador.”

“He just appeared to be in crisis,” Silva told Patch. “So we just handled him as such.”

Video shot by the Chronicle, which you can see above, shows the man standing on a support beam on one side of the sign as negotiators talk to him. He eventually is seen climbing down the beam before being taken into custody.

He was taken into custody at 11:05 p.m., less than an hour after the situation began, and taken to a neuropsychiatric center for evaluation, Silva said.

Watch the video of the incident above.