{"id":10452,"date":"2026-05-13T08:27:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T08:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/10452\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T08:27:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T08:27:16","slug":"absolutely-stupid-nsw-top-cop-slams-daredevil-who-scaled-sydneys-tallest-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/10452\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Absolutely stupid\u2019: NSW top cop slams daredevil who scaled Sydney\u2019s tallest building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have slammed a daredevil who scaled Sydney\u2019s tallest building without any safety equipment.<\/p>\n<p>A man filmed himself climbing underneath a construction site at 55 Pitt St in Sydney, scaling a 300m crane that towered over the city. <\/p>\n<p>The man had no safety equipment as he ascended the construction site, and was undetected by the security guards. <\/p>\n<p>NSW Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon said the move was \u201cabsolutely stupid\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no activity to go onto social media that\u2019s putting yourself at this type of risk,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Footage of the daredevil showed him scaling the construction site before looking down at the city.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to 9News, he said he couldn&#8217;t describe the feeling of sitting on top of the building.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMe being up \ufeffthere all alone above everyone else in the city is really indescribable,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>He said he had scaled the building four times before, and disagreed the move was \u201cabsolutely stupid\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are a lot of things that are absolutely stupid,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople driving, that could be absolutely stupid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s more people crashing their cars than falling off cranes at the end of the day.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>NSW Police are aware of the vision, but did not receive any reports of the daredevil\u2019s actions.<\/p>\n<p>Read related topics:<a class=\"topic_tag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/topics\/sydney\" data-tgev-container=\"story-topic-links\" data-tgev-label=\"Sydney\" data-tgev-order=\"1\" data-tgev-metric=\"npv\" data-tgev=\"event10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have slammed a daredevil who scaled Sydney\u2019s tallest building without any safety equipment. A man filmed himself&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,133,6794,11534,355,120,11537,11536,11535,247,11538],"class_list":["post-10452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sydney","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-construction-site","tag-mal-lanyon","tag-new-south-wales","tag-oceania","tag-people-driving","tag-safety-equipment","tag-scales-city","tag-sydney","tag-tallest-building"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}