Russian model dangles from Dubai’s skyscraper endangering her life for popularity

A Russian model went to great extremes in order to make a video for her Instagram account, which would push her towards stardom. The 23-year-old model dangled from a skyscraper in Dubai in order to get a video and pictures taken of her, performing this daredevil task.

A video of Viktoria Odintcova shows her stepping off a girder at the top of Dubai’s 73-storey Cayan Tower and dangling in the void, held only by a man gripping her hand. Even since the video was posted on her account, it has gone viral and gained the attention of a global audience.

After Dubai police saw the video, they summoned the model and asked her to sign a pledge not to put her life in danger again.

Major-General Khalil Ibrahim al-Mansouri, an assistant to the chief of police in Dubai, was quoted by the Arabic-language al-Ittihad newspaper as saying that Odintcova “had been summoned to sign an undertaking not to repeat any dangerous moves that could endanger her life in Dubai.”

“What the young Russian woman had done represents a danger to her life,” the newspaper quoted Mansouri as saying.

The officer further added that it was important for residents in the Gulf Arab city to avoid practicing such dangerous acts without seeking necessary precautions or obtaining prior permission from authorities, the newspaper said. Such acts also inspire other people to carry them out without proper guidance.

Meanwhile the video itself has gone viral and so far more than half a million people have viewed it on Odintcova’s Instagram account.

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