Hypothetical:
You’ve been enjoying a night out in Brisbane with your nearest and dearest. You glance at your phone. To your surprise, it’s already creeping on half past four in the morning! After bidding your family and friends farewell, what is your next course of action?
- Stagger home, bleary-eyed but otherwise no worse for wear, before crashing on the couch;
- Figure if you’re up this early in the morning, you may as well stay out, wander to a park and catch the sunrise;
- Find a crane in a construction site and climb the fucker.
Congratulations, buddy. If you chose three, you’re most likely the 21-year-old man who was charged this morning with a slew of offences after scaling a crane in Woolloongabba.
Police were called to the scene after being alerted to the loosest of units in the wee hours of the morn. A stand-off of sorts ensued, and negotiators were called to convince the bloke to come back down. His response, naturally, was scale the crane out of their reach while telling himself to “keep fucking climbing.”
It was a solid plan (NOTE: not actually a solid plan), until he presumably ran out of crane. He was convinced to head back to solid ground at around 11am. Six hours – that’s a looong time to spend up on a crane.
He’s been charged with several offences including trespass, wilful damage, and drug possession. It’s not yet known if it was all a part of some Steve-O-like protest, or if he just, you know, thought climbing a crane would be a swell idea.
