Florida Man Carrying Bible Climbs And Trashes 150-Foot Cell Tower, Causes Up To $500,000 In Damage [VIDEO]

Miami’s NBC affiliate reports:

A man who climbed a cell tower in Miami early Wednesday without safety gear, causing major damage and a service outage as he spent hours up on the structure before coming down, has been arrested, police said. The bizarre incident began when Miami Police said the man started climbing the cell tower at 29th Street and Northwest 13th Avenue in Allapattah sometime between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m., after allegedly impersonating a T-Mobile worker.

The man was spotted by officers pulling apart communications parts and tossing the pieces to the ground as he reached the top of the tower, which is about 150 feet off the ground. The man, identified as 38-year-old Richard Smith, of Orange City, was taken into custody. The arrest report said Smith caused damages totaling between $100,000 and $500,000 and “caused a wide range of cellular outage for customers until damages can be fixed.”

Read the full article. As you can see in the news clips, the man was carrying a bible in his waistband. It took police four hours to talk him down.