Florida man makes ‘dirt angels’ while hiding from cops following car crash, bizarre video shows

A Florida man was seen making “dirt angels” on a construction site while hiding from cops after crashing his car last week, according to footage captured by law enforcement.

Eliezer Armando Reyes Rios, 34, has been hit with leaving the scene of an accident; driving with a canceled, suspended, or revoked license; and trespassing on a construction site, among other charges in connection to the bizarre incident, officials said Wednesday.

Reyes Rios was involved in a single-vehicle crash on Christmas Eve and managed to escape a responding deputy’s “wondering eyes” while they were gathering information at the scene, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office.

The suspect ignored the deputy’s instructions and climbed over a fence into a construction zone, where he was seen by the sheriff’s Aviation Unit lounging around in a pile of dirt, video captured by the helicopter shows.

Reyes Rios was feeling the “holiday spirit” and made “dirt angels,” while hiding in a culvert, according to the sheriff.

“Just so you all know, he’s just casually laying there with his arms behind his head,” the pilot told deputies on the ground.

After rolling around in the dirt, Reyes Rios appeared to take a phone call before he ran off again and climbed a different portion of the fence to escape.

While still on the phone, he was met with three officers and a K-9, who told him to “get on the ground.”

“Dashing away he hid in the dark. Down a pit in the soil he lay, at times perhaps feeling the holiday spirit, making ‘Dirt Angels’ & making calls on his phone,” the sheriff’s office cheekily wrote. “Then he rose! He sprang to the fence, up & over, only to find, not eight tiny reindeer, but 3 deputies & one dutiful K-9.”

The unit thanked its aviation team for keeping an eye on him, writing: “Thanks to our Aviation Unit, who didn’t see a big jolly man in red on Christmas Eve but instead found the man playing in dirt.”