It appears Spider-Man is not the only one who likes to scale tall buildings in the chill of the night.
A man was spotted climbing an east Richmond apartment building in the wee hours of Sunday morning -- although he wasn’t spinning webs or catching thieves, just trying to get back into a party, according to one witness.
In a video, sent to the Richmond News, a man is seen climbing onto the balcony frame of a lower apartment unit to get access to a second-floor balcony around 4:30 a.m. on Dec. 11.
Richmond resident Jason Trieu, owner of the lower floor unit, told the Richmond News he was woken by his wife, who in turn had been woken by the ruckus caused by the climber.
“It took me by surprise with a rude awakening push from my wife to wake me,” said Trieu, adding that his dogs “went nuts” running around and barking.
The Spiderman-wannabe, who appeared to be in a “drunken state,” tried phoning his friends to let him back into the building, but no one picked up, according to Trieu.
He then started climbing the side of the building by using the apartment balconies.
“I was going to walk him to his friend’s unit, but he wasn’t sure which unit number he was from in his drunken state,” said Trieu.
Despite Trieu’s attempt to convince the man to come back down, he “insisted on climbing up.”
“At that point, I knew I couldn’t stop him, so I stood there and was anticipating his fall.”
However, the man made it safely to the second-floor balcony, but that wasn’t the end of his climbing adventure.
He continued up to the third floor, and while he safely got into that unit, Trieu called Richmond RCMP to inform them of the incident.
Trieu understood the unit was being rented out as an AirBnb and a party was going on that night.
The News has reached out to the RCMP for comment but didn’t hear back by press time.
