A drunken student had to be removed from the roof of the Cadbury’s factory in Dunedin by the fire service, as students marked the traditional Re-O Week with festivities and a lot of drinking.
During the incident last Tuesday, a University of Otago student was arrested for climbing onto the top of one of the Cadbury factory buildings. The heavily intoxicated 18-year old male was found by police after he was heard shouting "I don't want to die" from the roof of the four-storey building. The fire department was then called in to retrieve the student around midnight. It is unclear how the man reached the roof.
Police charged the student with being unlawfully on a building and he was released around 7am the next morning after sobering up. Newly elected OUSA president Logan Edgar did not have much to say about the incident apart from "I would say that’s it’s a good effort but very naughty...tsk, tsk.”
On the roof
