--- title: Man Tries To Jump Rooftops Gets Stuck Between Buildings For Hours description: In a harrowing tale of modern love, a man attempted to jump between rooftops and instead got stuck between buildings for hours. canonical: https://time.com/4463728/man-wedged-between-buildings/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-23T22:06:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:35:46.864Z og:title: Man Wedged Between Buildings For Hours After Jumping Roofs og:description: A harrowing tale of modern love, male ego, and parkour og:url: https://time.com/4463728/man-wedged-between-buildings/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt39d23c791f8586b0/6988a37197cdff75696ad8ca/pittsburgh-man-jumps-rooftop-stuck-between-buildings.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Pittsburgh-man-jumps-rooftop-stuck-between-buildings og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Man Wedged Between Buildings For Hours After Jumping Roofs twitter:description: A harrowing tale of modern love, male ego, and parkour twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt39d23c791f8586b0/6988a37197cdff75696ad8ca/pittsburgh-man-jumps-rooftop-stuck-between-buildings.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Man Who Jumped Rooftops to Impress a Date Just Got Stuck Between Buildings  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Aug 23, 2016 10:06 PM UTC  (Katelyn Sykes/Twitter)  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Aug 23, 2016 10:06 PM UTC In a harrowing tale of [modern love](http://time.com/4370822/taylor-swift-calvin-harris-instagram-twitter/), male ego, and [parkour](http://time.com/4397697/max-cave-parkour-storror-hong-kong-skyscrapers/), a man attempted to jump between rooftops early Tuesday morning to impress his date, but instead ended up trapped between two buildings (a Qdoba and a Bruegger’s Bagels, to be exact) in downtown Pittsburgh for hours. Lest this cautionary tale be only witnessed by this man and his date (and the police, medics, and fire department who came to rescue him by cutting open the building’s walls), Pittsburgh Public Safety thoughtfully live-tweeted the entire incident, which will no doubt be a great learning tool for the many hapless males in this world, hungry for the approval of potential significant others. The man has been rescued. > [](https://twitter.com/KatelynsWTAE/status/768027863106846720) > [](https://twitter.com/PghPublicSafety/status/767994217264189440) Public Safety’s commitment to confirming the man’s motivations should be commended. > [](https://twitter.com/PghPublicSafety/status/767995293526818816) However, there was one question that Pittsburgh Public Safety was unable to answer. > [](https://twitter.com/MetronomeDaBig/status/768087637324365825) > [](https://twitter.com/PghPublicSafety/status/768093039193710592) Man Tries To Jump Rooftops Gets Stuck Between Buildings For Hours ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4463728/man-wedged-between-buildings/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4463728/man-wedged-between-buildings/"},"headline":"This Man Who Jumped Rooftops to Impress a Date Just Got Stuck Between Buildings","datePublished":"2016-08-23T22:06:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:35:46.864Z","description":"Stuck between guac and a hard place","url":"https://time.com/4463728/man-wedged-between-buildings/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Internet","viral","pittsburgh"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt39d23c791f8586b0/6988a37197cdff75696ad8ca/pittsburgh-man-jumps-rooftop-stuck-between-buildings.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt39d23c791f8586b0/6988a37197cdff75696ad8ca/pittsburgh-man-jumps-rooftop-stuck-between-buildings.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Pittsburgh-man-jumps-rooftop-stuck-between-buildings","caption":"","creditText":"(Katelyn Sykes/Twitter)","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4463728/man-wedged-between-buildings/","name":"This Man Who Jumped Rooftops to Impress a Date Just Got Stuck Between Buildings"}}]}] ```