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PICS: Two Tourists Arrested After Climbing Lions Gate Bridge, Stopping Traffic In Search Of Photo Op

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 07 Jul, 2017 12:06 PM

Vancouver Police have arrested two men in their 20s and are recommending charges after they climbed the Lions Gate Bridge this morning and snarled traffic for a photo-opp. The men are visiting from Washington State.

Motorist crossing the Lions Gate Bridge around 8:30 a.m. called 9-1-1 after seeing a man wearing a headlamp and carrying a large backpack, climb over the railing and pull himself up the guy-wires to about 50 to 70 feet up the bridge deck.

2 guys climbed the bridge today, immediately busted on the way down #eyophoto #vancouver #lionsgatebridge

A post shared by Eyoälha (@eyoalha) on Jul 6, 2017 at 11:27am PDT

Admittedly impressed and a little jealous, both of the guys who just got busted climbing to the top of lions gate bridge and the cops who got to climb up after them. The rebel bridge climbers were busted, 👮cops were nice. #rebelbridgeclimbers #copsonthebrige #goodcops #eyophoto #lionsgatebridgeclimber #vancouver

A post shared by Eyoälha (@eyoalha) on Jul 6, 2017 at 11:51am PDT

When officers arrived, they could not see the man from the bridge deck. The Emergency Response Team’s high-angle rescue specialists were deployed to search the enclosed pathways and the guy-wire systems on the bridge.

The two men were taken into police custody and their camera equipment was seized, after they were seen scaling down the guy-wires to the bridge deck.

There is no additional information to share at this time.

Police have arrested two men in their 20s after they climbed the Lions Gate Bridge & snarled traffic for hours. https://t.co/Hk5cpGDkZm #VPD pic.twitter.com/4Yz5HdYGsJ
— Vancouver Police (@VancouverPD) July 6, 2017

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