Suspected Car Thief Spider-mans Through Underside Of Bridge Trying To Escape Police

Being Spider-Man for a day, clinging to walls astatine vulnerable heights, sounds for illustration a batch of fun. But that only sounds nosy if it comes on pinch nan Spider-Man's superpowers. As a normal human, holding onto immoderate structure, hundreds of feet supra nan ground (or water) sounds for illustration a nightmare. A car thief lived that type of my nightmare successful San Francisco earlier this month, aft being chased by police, ditching nan stolen Honda Civic, and fleeing to nan underside of nan Bay Bridge.

The pursuit started aft nan grey Civic was reported stolen successful downtown San Francisco, adjacent 8th and Market streets. Once nan constabulary recovered nan car, they chased it for 30 minutes, and moreover deployed a spike strip that slowed nan fishy down, but didn't extremity him immediately. Eventually, aft driving onto the Bay Bridge, nan driver stopped, near nan car behind, and climbed complete nan obstruction onto nan crossbeams below. The highest constituent of vertical clearance betwixt nan span and nan h2o is 220 feet, which makes maine uneasy conscionable reasoning astir it. 

San Francisco constabulary precocious released assemblage cam and drone footage of nan pursuit and nan thief's Spider-Man for illustration flight attempt. After nan constabulary saw nan alleged thief climb onto nan crossbeams beneath nan bridge, they sent a drone down to find him. That's wherever you tin spot him hanging from 1 of nan beams, pinch his feet dangling beneath him astatine times. Terrifying. 

The SFPD unopen down postulation connected nan bridge, brought fireboats and marine units into nan bay, and had hostage negotiators connected manus to effort to bring nan fishy backmost onto nan bridge. Thankfully, he gave himself up, apt realizing that it was amended to beryllium arrested for theft than to autumn much than 200 feet into nan water. "After respective minutes hiding wrong a support beam, nan fishy climbed backmost onto nan span and was taken into custody without incident," said nan SFPD, according to nan San Francisco Chronicle. 

SFTD took nan thief into custody but hasn't released his name, information, nor nan charges that he's facing.