'Spiderman' arrested for climbing building

Updated 20.45 Tue Dec 18 2007
Keywords: spiderman, climber, police

A man who scaled a 20-storey building in central London has been arrested for wasting police time.

Hundreds of workers stopped to watch as the 45-year-old climbed up the building near a shopping centre in Victoria Street, apparently without ropes.

Hundreds of workers stopped to watch as the 45-year-old climbed up the building near a shopping centre in Victoria Street, apparently without ropes

Onlookers used phones to take pictures as the climber reached the top of the office block, having stopped to rest on several window ledges on the way up.

There were cheers from the crowd as he waved from the pinnacle of the building.

Police taped off the area and later arrested him for criminal damage and wasting police time.

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