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Man dangled from building for an hour

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Published: Sept. 15, 2008 at 6:12 PM

NEW YORK, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- New York police say a man who tried to help a relative who had locked herself out of her apartment wound up dangling by her sixth-story window ledge.

Police said the man, whose name was not released, used a rope to lower himself from the roof of the building but found the window he had planned to enter was locked and he was unable to climb the rope back to the roof, the New York Post reported Monday.

Officers said the man was dangling for more than an hour before they arrived, forced their way into the apartment and helped him in the window.

The building superintendent said the man was the brother of the apartment tenant while police said he was the tenant's son.

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