A bloke has been filmed climbing up 50 lampposts to rip down Union flags as crowds cheered him on.
The mystery man scaled the towering 30ft poles on Sunday (7 Sept).
He yanked down flag after flag to the sound of cheers and car horns blaring from passing drivers.
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Laura Evans, who caught the stunt on camera, said the entire road had been decorated with around 50 England and Union flags.
It happened on Madeira Drive, in Brighton.
“About 50 lampposts on the road had a Great Britain and England flag on it,” Laura, from Brighton, told Need to Know.
“One guy climbed every post to take them down.
“At nearly every post he climbed he was met with people either cheering or screaming at him.”
In one clip, onlookers can be heard chanting: “Take it down!”
And in another, the climber is confronted by a furious passer-by who shoves him and demands: “Why are you taking it down?”
Laura uploaded the footage online where it’s already been viewed more than 247,000 times.
The bizarre stunt has divided opinion.
One person said: “I really don’t understand the negative connotation behind any country flying its national flag in its country?
“Can someone explain why any British national would be adverse to seeing their own flag fly?”
Ned wrote: “Doing God’s work.
“Flag has been hijacked by those with ill intentions.”
Tom added: “Wonder why this county is falling apart when its own people don’t even want its flags up.”
Another fumed: “Imagine cheering that the flag of the country you live in is being torn down.”
But Sam said: “If you put them up, people can take them down.”
Last Thursday (4 Sept), a masked mob was filmed with a ladder taking down flags in Dyke Road, Brighton.
One local confronted the group wearing COVID-style face coverings.
He said: “What you doing?
“Why you pulled that flag down?”
One of them replied: “Don’t worry about it.”
The man said: “Why are you pulling down the flags of the country?
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