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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

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      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.

       
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