Brooklyn, NY – An Israeli tourist was arrested for climbing the Brooklyn Bridge to take pictures with his smartphone.
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The NY Post says (https://goo.gl/EB0l0y) 18-year-old, Yaroslav Kolchin was picked up at about 7 p.m. Thursday after jumping over a fence on the Brooklyn side of the bridge.
“He jumped up to get a selfie with the skyline behind him,” the Post quoted a witness as saying.
The man was charged with criminal trespass.
Officials previously beefed up security around the bridge after a series of incidents involving climbers taking selfies or replacing the flags atop the bridge.
Did he get the selfie?
All they did was arrest him?
What did you want the NYPD to do, beat the heck out of him?