| It’s a sad day when a superhero can’t even |  |
| scale a skyscraper when he wants to. Last |
| week, the owner and developer of the Shard |
| of London Bridge Quarter (LBQ) in London |
| took out an injunction against French climber |
| Alain Robert to prevent him ‘entering the |
| Shard site or attempting to climb the |
| building’. |
| Robert, otherwise known as the ‘French |
| Spider-Man’ due to his penchant for climbing |
| some of the world’s tallest buildings without a |
| rope or harness, has previously scaled the |
| Sydney Opera House, the Empire State |
| Building and the 2,717-ft Buj Khalifa in Dubai |
| -the world’s tallest manmade structure. |
| According to Robert, he was apparently |
| spotted by security staff as he was checking |
| out the 1,016-ft building. A spokesperson for LBQ gave us the following |
| statement: ‘As LBQ takes its responsibility to health and safety extremely |
| seriously we have sought to prevent Mr Robert from attempting to climb the |
| Shard.’ |
| But will an injunction stop him? Given that most of his previous climbs haven’t |
| been given the legal go-ahead, we doubt it. |
| Time Out, 2012 |
