Graffiti artist arrested after scaling Australian bridge and painting giant bird

Australian police arrested a man on Tuesday ​after he allegedly scaled a 140-metre-high tower of a ‌cantilever bridge in the city of Melbourne and painted a giant cartoon bird on it, Reuters writes.

An Instagram account posting footage from Bolte Bridge, not far from ​the city’s central business district, showed a man dangling his ​legs from the top of the tower.

In subsequent posts, ⁠he demanded lower taxes in Australia and requested a peanut butter ​sandwich be delivered by drone before he would come down.

Paul Hogan, an acting sergeant with Victoria Police, said ​a 22-year-old man was arrested after descending from the tower. However, authorities did not disclose how they persuaded him to come down from the bridge tower.

The graffiti on the bridge closely resembles Pam the Bird, a symbol that has appeared on dozens ​of buildings in Melbourne in recent years, including ​on the ⁠heritage-listed Flinders Street railway station.