‘British’ parkour runner damages constructing and crashes to the bottom
A parkour runner faced instant karma after he damaged a UNESCO World Heritage Site building in Italy during a rooftop jump and the masonry gave way beneath him.
The unidentified free runner’s antics destroyed part of the ancient city of Matera, before sending him crashing to the ground, where he grabbed his ankle in pain.
In a video of the stunt gone wrong, which emerged on social media on June 12, everyone appears to be speaking in English accents, with the injured man crying out: ‘Oh no, f***.’
Onlookers react with cries of ‘ooh, f***’, *ooh, s***’ and ‘are you OK?’
The footage shows a man in a long-sleeved green top and black trousers leaping from one roof to another, then jumping one-footed onto a narrow stretch of stonework sticking out from a wall.
A parkour runner was filmed jumping from one roof to another in a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Matera, Italy
The free runner then leapt one-footed onto a narrow outcrop on the side of a wall to propel him to the next building, but the stonework crumbled beneath him
The man fell to the floor and grabbed his right ankle in pain
It is understood that he had intended to spring off the ledge onto another roof, but as he landed on it, it crumbled beneath him and he fell down on the hard ground.
The extreme runner can then be seen sitting against a wall in agony and grabbing his right ankle.
The historic cliffside city in Basilicata region has been a protected UNESCO site since 1993 and has been occupied by humans since the Paleolithic period, the early Stone Age.
It was evacuated in stages between the 1950s and 1970s for safety reasons.
The shocking images were shared online by choreographer Luca Tommassini, who said angrily: ‘It’s a UNESCO World Heritage Site. How dare you?’
Mr Tommassini added: ‘Do you know where you are and what you are touching?
‘Matera should not be used as a parkour park, that stone could have been there when America was discovered or even before.’
It is unclear if police are investigating the free runners seen in the footage.
