Four reckless teenagers have been trapped at the top of a 43-story skyscraper in downtown San Francisco.
The group was on the roof of 44 Montgomery Street in the city’s financial district on Tuesday, according to building security.
Two of the four teens were detained near the building after officers responded to a report of intruders around 1:34 p.m., the San Francisco Police Department said.
Police confiscated a crowbar from one of the teenagers around 3 p.m.
Of the two teenagers arrested, one was taken to the police station while the other was handed over to his mother.
Four teenagers were caught sneaking onto the roof of the 43-story Montgomery building in San Francisco.
The teens were filming their social media stunt, as was 22-year-old Madison DesChamps when she climbed the entire Salesforce tower.
Office workers from inside the tower filmed DesChamps climbing the floor levels while appearing to be unharnessed.
In an interview with the San Francisco Standard, one of the teens, who chose to remain anonymous, said he had challenged himself to climb different buildings over the past year and had been documenting it on social media.
He said only he and his friend made it to the top of Montgomery.
“I hid in this locked room for about an hour until I didn’t hear any sirens,” he said.
“I left the room and took the elevator to the floor, but 10 building security guards took me to the floor when the police arrived.”
The teen said he felt violated by one of the officers, who put the handcuffs on him so tight that he scheduled an x-ray to check for any damage.
“The policewoman who was there was a lifesaver,” he said. “She loosened the handcuffs after I complained when the officer who put them on me said he didn’t care and he wasn’t going to tighten them.”
He said he was eventually released from custody at the police station with his father.
The climber did not reveal how he managed to enter the building.
The group of daring teenagers is not the only one risking their lives for the sake of social media.
In 2023, a group of free climbers shared the chilling moment they scaled the 927 feet of Donald Trump’s 40 Wall Street building.
YouTuber DyingLlama ascended to the roof of 40 Wall Street in 2023 and filmed these chilling footage from 927 feet in the air.
The daredevils parade around a ledge no more than two feet wide at the top of the iconic building that is part of Donald Trump’s real estate empire.
The trio, including the YouTuber, were amazed at the ease with which they were able to reach the roof of the tower, before attempting a precarious climb to the top of the spire.
In July of that year, renowned daredevil Remi Lucidi, 30, died after falling from the top of a 721-foot-tall skyscraper he had been climbing while in Hong Kong.
Lucidi had reached the 68th floor of the 721-foot Tregunter Tower, a residential block in Hong Kong’s exclusive Mid-Levels area before his fatal fall.
The young adventurer had been seen by a maid knocking on the attic windows to get back inside the building, but fell to his death before help could arrive.
In 2022, 22-year-old anti-abortion activist Maison Deschamps scaled the 1,070-foot-tall Salesforce Tower in San Francisco without a rope or safety harness.
The ‘pro-life Spiderman’ was taken into custody once he climbed the 61 floors to reach the roof of the tower.
It appeared he was only wearing a hoodie, as several office workers inside the tower recorded footage of the climber arriving at his floors without any climbing equipment.
Tricks such as ‘surf trains’, in which a person stands or holds on to subway-like transportation as it moves, have also gained popularity on social media.
Recently, the BART train in San Francisco and the MTA in New York City have been the scene of this deadly trend.
Daredevil Remi Lucidi, 30, died in July 2023 after falling from the top of a 721-foot-tall skyscraper he had been climbing while in Hong Kong.
Lucidi fell from the top of a 721-foot, 68-story residential skyscraper in Hong Kong (pictured center)
Last month, seven people dressed in black were riding on top of a subway car as it entered the bridge heading into Manhattan on Friday.
In images obtained by the New York PostIn the video you can see one of the members of the group standing, while the others were crouched or face down.
There were no complaints about metro Internet users.
To stop the spread of this deadly trend, more than 3,000 subway surfing videos and photos have been removed from the Internet, according to a report statement From the Governor of New York’s website.
Earlier this year, two teenagers died on separate occasions after falling off the BART train while doing the challenge.
Stunts such as ‘surf trains’, in which a person stands or holds on to subway-like transportation as it moves, have gained popularity on social media.
The mother of one of the teenagers, Marina Baran, lost her 19-year-old son, Daniel Baran, on January 29 to this trend. Daniel, a daredevil, previously posted videos of himself climbing to the roof of dorm buildings at the University of San Francisco.
‘Please think of your parents. It is very difficult to lose a child; You’ll be gone, but your parents will be left in this world wondering why you did this,” her mother said.
“Taking such an unnecessary risk leaves me speechless.”