Man climbs tree after arguing with wife

A 50-YEAR-OLD man in Mandaue City climbed a mango tree and perched on the branches for several hours before he was convinced to go down.

A misunderstanding with his wife may have driven the man to climb the tree around 3 p.m. last Saturday, said police.

After he was rescued, the man was brought to the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center for a medical examination.

Police said the man and his live-in partner had not been in talking terms although they still live in one house in barangay Upper Tawasan.

The woman didn’t even show up to help rescuers convince the man to go down.

The woman told police that she and the man argued after she asked him to do some household chores after she was asked to go to her employer’s house. The woman worked as a maid.

The couple has a 25-year-old daughter.

“All he does is eat and sleep,” the woman said in Cebuano.

The man, who is unemployed, had been suffering from diabetes.

Senior Insp. Luis Alama, chief of police station 6 in Mandaue, said they rushed to the area after receiving a report that a man made a scene by a climbing a tree.

Rescuers from Acert and a firetruck went to the area.

Alama said the negotiation lasted for three hours until the man was convinced to go down through a portable ladder./CORRESPONDENT NORMAN V. MENDOZA