Melbourne was thrown into traffic chaos when an intruder climbed the towering Bolte Bridge and spray-painted the infamous “Pam the Bird” graffiti tag — then refused to come down. The standoff with Victoria Police stretched past six hours, triggering a major emergency response and shutting down a key arterial route in Australia’s second-largest city.
“Pam the Bird” has become a notorious tag across Melbourne, and the brazen scaling of one of the city’s most prominent structures — visible for kilometers across the skyline — turned the act of vandalism into a spectacle that dominated local news and social media throughout the day.
