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Ah the freaks do give me a laugh. ;D Photos and full story at link.
Whitehall closed off as police try to coax down a naked man straddling historic statueThe unidentified man was clothed when he climbed the statue at around 1pm
-The statue commemorates Prince George, the First Duke of Cambridge, who died in 1904, and stands in front of Horse Guards Parade
By Matt Blake
PUBLISHED: 13:31 GMT, 23 November 2012 | UPDATED: 14:16 GMT, 23 November 2012
A mystery man brought Whitehall to a standstill today after he climbed to the top of a historic 30-foot statue - and stripped naked.
Police were forced to close an entire section of the road - which runs between the Houses of Parliament and Trafalgar Square in the heart of the capital - while specialist officers tried to coax the man down.
The spectacle began at around 1pm today, when the man appeared to clamber up the life size memorial to Prince George, the First Duke of Cambridge fully clothed before stripping off.
At one point he balanced acrobatically - with his arms out stretched - upon the Duke's feathered plume, before sitting on his head.
The man's motives for the extravagant display of public nudity remain unclear. Scotland Yard said it was believed that the man might have a knife as officers shut down part of the road, near the heart of Westminster in central London.
Whitehall runs from the Houses of Parliament to Trafalgar Square and is where the Ministry of Defence is situated.
Police had cordoned off a section of around 100 metres of Whitehall, near Trafalgar Square.
Several police cars and ambulances were on the scene. Crowds of onlookers had gathered at either end of the cordon. The naked man is believed to have been clothed when he climbed on to the statue.
He could be seen waving his arms, apparently speaking to emergency services on the ground, and did not seem to be holding anything.
A spokesman said: 'We are talking to the man and will try and bring the situation to a resolution a soon as we can.'
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