Norwegian: I Was Pisa Tower Jumper
10:23 AM ET 02/04/00 Friday
PISA, Italy (AP) Italian authorities are seeking clues to a mystery skydiver from Pisa's leaning tower, who jumped and ran before monument workers could catch him. In Norway, a daredevil stepped forward to say he was the mystery jumper. ``People were stunned and then there was total chaos,'' Oslo's Verdens Gang daily quoted Arne Aarhus as saying. "An hour and a half after I jumped, we sneaked back because we wanted a picture of us with the tower in the background. "People were still standing there pointing upwards, while police collected their statements.'' Aarhus, 24 and an experienced parachutist, said he jumped from the 180-foot-high tower at first light Tuesday as a companion filmed and snapped pictures. Pisa officials in charge of the tower say employees arriving for work saw and chased the group. Authorities said there were three people, not two. Engineers overseeing an arduous project to prop up the tower filed a formal complaint with police, who so far have been unable to identify even the nationality of the jumper. Italy closed the summit of the 12th-century tower in 1990 for PISA CAKE: Arne Aarhus jumps from fear of its collapse. the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Foto: Kent Andersen
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