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He should have stayed at home.

Instead this robber’s attempt to climb the crime ladder ended up coming to a crashing halt Thursday.

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Toronto Police received a call at 3:30 p.m. for a male attempting to break into a building “using a ladder” near Danforth and Coxwell Aves.

But the ladder had fallen to the ground and he couldn’t climb down. So he climbed up instead.

“He was jumping across rooftops,” say police.

But when he made his way back to ground level and after kicking in a window was greeted by 54 Division officers who rung him up.

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This kind of crime is what police are seeing more of these days. Businesses are preparing for the worst.

Plywood covering the windows of stores and restaurants downtown are not just a sign of the strange times we are living in, it’s also a sign of the frightening times we could end up witnessing.

When you see the spike in commercial property crime during this pandemic over what we had at this time in 2019, one can hardly blame businesses for boarding up the front windows of their shops.