WASHINGTON — One Georgetown couple is hitting the roof because some people are running through their neighborhood — well, hitting their roof.
It’s called free running, also known as parkour, and it’s featured on the “American Ninja Warrior” TV series, but when it came to their own house, Shelley Clark and Andy Leddy called the police, NBC Washington reports.
Clark says that she was tipped off when her cat came running into the house looking over its shoulder. She says she went out to investigate, expecting to see a hawk, when she found “two faces peering over the edge of my roof.” She says the house is historic, and the roof is old and fragile.
Leddy says he found the pair in an alley, and that they confessed to the free running.
“That’s really not the best place to be doing this,” Leddy says he told them, and they called the police, who said they were familiar with the practice and that it’s happening more often.
Clark was philosophical about it, though: “I figure if protective service doesn’t get them, some combination of Charles Darwin and Isaac Newton will.”
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