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Man arrested for drinking beer atop crane in downtown Edmonton 'just wanted a selfie'
A man who scaled a 25-storey crane in downtown Edmonton Sunday night because he “just wanted a selfie” has been arrested.

Police said they were called to the Rogers Place construction site at about 7 p.m. about a man sitting drinking beer at the top of a crane at the corner of 102 Street and 103 Avenue.

The man told police he was visiting from B.C. and wanted to get a nice picture of himself with the sun setting in the background. The photograph turned out blurry, police said.
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Full Story (Edmonton Journal)

"The photograph turned out blurry, police said." That's worth a lol.
 
I see the story was posted, thanks!
http://skyrisecities.com/news/2016/04/photos-capture-stantec-towers-11-hour-raft-slab-pour

Some interesting stats that came in too late for publishing, but I added as an addendum at the bottom of the story, and including here:
- Raft sits on 39 piles, 1.8m in diameter, deepest of which runs 80m into the ground
- Typically raft slabs act as one big footing and bear directly on the soil, but because of the height and loading of this tower, piles were also needed
- 760 tonnes of rebar was used for the raft slab
- 2800 cubic metres of concrete was used
- Raft Dimensions are 24m wide x 36m long x 3m tall
- Pour start time 5am, end time 3pm - roughly 10 hours
- About 311 concrete trucks were needed
- Pour rate was ~300m3/hr; ~33 trucks every hour
- Largest continuous pour in the city's history
 
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