SEATTLE — An aspiring ninja learned the hard way that he isn’t able to jump a 5-foot fence.

Seattle police said an officer checking out a report of an assault in the 600 block of 7th Avenue late Monday came across a man impaled on top of a metal fence, screaming for help.

Firefighters pulled the man from the metal spike and took him to Harborview Medical Center.

Police thought the man may have been involved in the earlier assault call so they went to interview him at the hospital. There, police said, the man told them that he was not being chased but thought he was a ninja and believed he could leap the fence.

“Clearly he was overconfident in his abilities, no doubt bolstered by alcohol,” police wrote in a news release.

SOURCE: KOMO TV

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