Police took a man into custody Friday who made a bold jump from a crane on top of a high-rise building in downtown San Diego.
Witnesses described seeing the man parachuting off of a crane on top of the towering Pinnacle on the Park building at 15th and J streets at about 1 a.m. Friday.
"I was just standing right here in my house and I was wondering what was going on. I thought Batman came flying," a witness who identified himself as Twelve Trillyen said.
San Diego police said they were notified that someone was climbing the crane and they urged the man to come down. It was not clear how the man made it to the top of the 45-story building.
The man, later identified as 28-year-old Nicholas Marinkovich, landed about a block away at Market and 16th streets and was immediately taken into custody by officers. Police confiscated his parachute.
He was later released from custody.
Marinkovich is facing misdemeanor charges of trespassing and delaying a peace officer, according to SDPD Sgt. Michael Stirk.
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The act of parachuting off high structures, like buildings or bridges, is called BASE jumping. The acronym stands for building, antenna, span and Earth, the types of places from which jumpers leap.
