Lunatic climber moons cops, but doesn’t crater
THERE WAS a bad moon on the rise in Brooklyn Friday morning.
A man wanted for questioning for a domestic violence incident tried to avoid arrest by doing his best Spider-Man impression — and bared his butt for stunned onlookers.
He climbed out onto the building’s awning on 60th St. near 11th Ave. in Borough Park about 11 a.m.
As cops tried to coax him down, he scaled the outside of adjacent buildings, slowly going from second-floor window ledge to second-floor window ledge, then scampered to the roof of the building at the end of the block.
At one point, he even stood suspended on electrical wires attached to the buildings.
But the man was not your friendly neighborhood type of wall-crawler.
The nut, whose name was not immediately released, spat on and mooned cops and the crowd of gawkers that quickly formed.
He flipped cops the bird when they failed to immediately produce cigarettes he demanded. “Chop, chop!” he barked at them. Cops trying to negotiate his surrender eventually threw him cigarettes taped to a water bottle.
After about two hours of antics, he finally gave up peacefully.
Police brought the man to Bellevue Hospital for a psychiatric evaluation. He had not yet been charged with a crime early Saturday.