Well, not exactly Spiderman. But an idiot laowai dressed as Spiderman. As the Shanghai Daily reported Thursday afternoon, a foreign man between the ages of 30 and 40 began climbing the Jinmao Tower, the world’s fourth tallest building. The man, wearing a blue and red Spiderman costume, began climbing the building at around 3pm, Shanghai local time. He scaled the side of the Jinmao for nearly an hour until police and firefighters arrived and the climber came down. The man brought his own cheering section and photographers who screamed during his ascent. The Shanghai Daily tries real hard to be a real newspaper, but couldn’t get a lousy photograph as of Thursday afternoon, when this was posted. Flumesday did. Three actually. And a video from inside the tower. According to the English paper, when the Spiderman impersonator touched ground he waved and struck poses for the crowd. Police sealed off the building and arrested the climber who looks wasted in the photo #3. It is unconfirmed whether the climber was part of a publicity stunt for the new Spiderman 3 movie now playing in Shanghai theaters.
•Shanghai Daily: ‘Spiderman’ Ends Show in Police Station