Sydney July 16 (IANS) A man who robbed almost 50 houses by scaling the outside of the buildings faced court in Australian on Monday.
The 32-year-old man who police dubbed Spiderman has been charged with 49 counts of burglary and 16 counts of fraud after risking his life to access the high-rise homes reports Xinhua news agency.
"The risk is so high you ve got to be fairly confident in your own ability to be able to do it " Queensland Police detective inspector Marc Hogan said.
When one victim startled the burglar during a late night break-in he allegedly apologised before hurling himself over the 20-story balcony and scaling back down to the ground.
Wallets and credit cards were targeted during the break-ins.
"Obviously he couldn t carry a lot of things so he wasn t scaling down the walls with TVs or things like that " Hogan said.

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