LONDON (AP) — Witnesses say a
base jumper has safely parachuted from the European Union's tallest
building, the Shard in London, and evaded police by jumping on the
subway.
Passers-by captured
the stunt on social media Saturday. Video footage and photographs showed
the man with green chute deployed floating from the Shard onto a street
near the London Bridge station.
They
say the unidentified man folded his chute, handed it to an accomplice,
and ran into the station minutes before police arrived.
It's
the first documented base jump since the 2012 completion of the Shard, a
spire-shaped skyscraper that stands 95 stories and 1,016 feet (310
meters) high. Base jumpers did film themselves leaping from the
structure when it was still under construction. The finished building
has no external rooftop viewing platform.
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