A man in Suzhou too poor to rent a room was seen sleeping on top of a 25 meter high outdoor billboard. Cramped on 40 cm wide platform, eyewitnesses have stated that he would climb up the billboard as swiftly as a monkey and didn’t seem the least bit scared of heights.

Reaching the top of the billboard was no easy feat as the start of the ladder was two meters high at the time. But the man on the billboard allegedly attached a rope to the last step and pulled himself up with that.

A person who reportedly knows the man has said that he’s from Shangrao in Jiangxi Province and is around 30 years old. He used to work at an electronics factory but eventually quit and now makes a living from collecting rubbish. Because he didn’t have enough money to rent a place, he previously slept under a flyover. However, there were too many mosquitoes so one day he got the idea of climbing up the billboard. He found that not only were there fewer mosquitoes but it was much cooler up there too.

Sadly, the man’s genius sleeping spot was taken away from him forever when the advertising company sawed off a number of the steps on the ladder on August 21. Now, the first step is seven meters off the ground which means the man will have to channel his creativity once again to find a new, mosquito-free sleeping spot.

Source: people.com.cn

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