{"id":281007,"date":"2026-07-07T15:03:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T11:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=281007"},"modified":"2026-07-07T15:22:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T11:22:22","slug":"graffiti-artist-arrested-after-scaling-australian-bridge-and-painting-giant-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/281007\/","title":{"rendered":"Graffiti artist arrested after scaling Australian bridge and painting giant bird"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

In subsequent posts, ⁠he demanded lower taxes in Australia and requested a peanut butter sandwich be delivered by drone before he would come down.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":280990,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,47,53,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-society","category-culture","category-law"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281016,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281007\/revisions\/281016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}