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Running from the police while wearing only a pair of boxer shorts and a single sock, a man scaled and jumped across rooftops of a four-storey church in Boyle Heights on Wednesday night.

This wasn’t an elaborate walk of shame, though, but rather a very dramatic police chase.

The LA Times reports that while the identity of the 25-year-old man is not known, authorities do know that he climbed onto the bell tower of St. Mary’s Catholic Church and tried to light a small fire beneath the rooftop cross.

Authorities said that the fire didn’t spread and damage the church, but it did scorch a small part of the roof.

NBC Los Angeles also reports that the man appeared to kick a second statue in an attempt to knock it over.

He was clearly trying to prove something, although his point has not yet come to light.

A few videos of the man have since been making the rounds:

Video from OnScene.TV shows a man, minus shirt and pants — and holding a pill bottle in his mouth — walking heel-to-toe as though balancing on a tightrope while crossing the roof of the four-story church.

He then shimmies down scaffolding near the church before jumping onto the rooftops of adjacent buildings. He uses electrical wires from a utility line to scale the side of one building, the video shows.

It looks like he jumped from rooftop to rooftop rather nimbly:

It’s amazing the kinds of things people will do to escape the police:

When he landed on the ground, LAPD Officer Mike Lopez said he smashed a window to get into a residential building, where the family inside had to be evacuated.

At this stage, it is safe to say that his point is now completely lost.

The LAFD officials confirmed that they caught the man, took him into custody, and then hospital for evaluation.

He was arrested on suspicion of arson and burglary, according to Lopez.

[sources:latimes&nbclosangeles]