At first glance, 13-year-old Fitri Aulia may appear to be just an ordinary teenage girl from Ciputat, South Tangerang. But beneath that calm exterior lies a daring soul.
Fitri is actually known as ‘Spider-kid’ because she has a strange habit (at least for a teenage girl in Indonesia) of climbing tall buildings without any safety equipments.
She was at it again just yesterday afternoon, when she sneaked away from her vacationing family and climbed Ancol’s towering entrance monument.
The Ancol entrance monument and some cars below it for scale
It wasn’t clear if she made it all the way to the top, but she was already on her way down when authorities and her family found her.
“Yes, that’s Fitri. She’s the one who likes to climb [buildings],” Fitri’s mother, Sumarni, told authorities, as quoted by Tribunnews.
Fitri was then taken away for questioning by authorities. She didn’t seem so bothered about having to talk to the police as losing out on her chance at getting photographed by the media.
“Mama! Mama! I want to be photographed! I want to be photographed!” she cried out.
At least her antics paid off because she eventually got her wish after being photographed by several media outlets.
This wasn’t the first time Fitri went out on her own to climb a tall building. Fitri the ‘Spider-kid’ has climbed numerous transmission towers in the past. In fact, in 2011, she broke her leg when she fell from a transmission tower in Tambora, West Jakarta. She was only 10 then.
