Four teenagers are caught risking their lives on top of 43-story downtown San Fran skyscraper for social media stunt - after breaking in with a crowbar and hiding in a closet until staff left work

Four daredevil teenagers have been caught on top of a 43-story skyscraper in downtown San Francisco.

The group was on the roof of 44 Montgomery Street in the city's Financial District on Tuesday, according to building security.

Two of the four teens were detained near the building after officers responded to a report of trespassers at about 1:34 pm, the San Francisco Police Department said.

Police seized a crowbar from one of the teens at about 3 pm.

Of the two teens who were detained, one was taken to the police station while the other released from police custody to his mother.

Four teenagers were caught sneaking on to the roof of the 43-story Montgomery building in San Francisco

The teenagers were filming their stunt for social media, much like Madison DesChamps, 22, when he climbed up the entirety of the Salesforce tower 

Office workers from inside the tower filmed DesChamps climbing up their floor levels as he appeared to be without a harness

In an interview with the San Francisco Standard, one of the teens, who chose to remain anonymous, said he has been challenging himself to climb different buildings over the past year, and has been documenting it on social media.

He said only he and his friend made it to the top of Montgomery.

'I hid in this locked room for about an hour until I heard no sirens,' he said.

'I exited the room and took the elevator down to the floor, but 10 building security [guards] got me to the floor as police came.'

The teen said he felt violated by one of the officers, who put his handcuffs on so tight that he scheduled an X-ray to check if there is any damage.

'The woman cop who was there was a lifesaver,' he said. 'She loosened up the cuffs after I complained about it when the officer who put it on me said he didn't care and wasn't going to adjust it.'

He said he was eventually released from custody at the police station to his dad.

The climber did not reveal how he gained entry into the building.

The group of daring teenagers are not the only ones putting their life on the line for social media's sake.

In 2023, a group of free climbers shared the spine-tingling moment they scaled all 927ft of Donald Trump 's 40 Wall Street building,

YouTuber DyingLlama ascended 40 Wall Street's roof in 2023, filming this spine-tingling footage from , 927ft in the air

The daredevils parade around a ledge no more than two feet wide at the top of the iconic building which forms part of Donald Trump's real estate empire

The trio, including YouTuber were astonished by how easily they were able to get onto the roof of the tower, before attempting a precarious climb to the top of the spire.

In July that year, renowned daredevil Remi Lucidi, 30, died falling from the top of a 721ft high skyscraper that he had been scaling while on location in Hong Kong.

Lucidi had reached the 68th floor of the 721ft Tregunter Tower, a residential block in Hong Kong's upscale Mid-Levels area before his fatal fall.

The young adventurer had been seen by a maid knocking on the windows of the penthouse to get back inside the building, but fell to his death before any help could arrive. 

In 2022, anti-abortion activist Maison Deschamps, 22, climbed the 1,070-foot tall Salesforce Tower in San Francisco without a safety rope or harness.

The 'pro-life Spiderman' was placed in custody once he climbed all 61 floors to reach the tower's roof. 

He appeared to only be wearing a hoodie, as several office workers inside the tower recorded footage of the climber reaching their floors without any climbing gear. 

Stunts like 'surfing trains', where a person stand or hangs on to a subway-like transport as its moving, have also gained popularity on social media.

Recently, the BART train in San Francisco and the MTA in New York City have been the site of this deadly trend.

Daredevil Remi Lucidi, 30, died in Juley 2023 after  falling from the top of a 721ft high skyscraper that he had been scaling while on location in Hong Kong

Lucidi fell from the top of a 721ft, 68-story Hong Kong residential skyscraper (pictured center)

Last month, seven people dressed in black rode on top of a subway car Friday as it entered the bridge headed toward Manhattan. 

In footage obtained by the New York Post, one of the group members can be seen standing up, while the others were crouched down or on their stomachs.

No complaints were made about the subway surfers. 

To stop the spread of this deadly trend, over 3,000 videos and photos of subway surfing have been removed from the internet, according to a statement from the New York Governor's website.

Earlier this year, two teens died on separate occasions after falling off the BART train while doing the challenge.

Stunts like 'surfing trains' where a person stand or hangs on to a subway-like transport as its moving has gained popularity on social media

The mother of one of the teens, Marina Baran, lost her 19-year-old son, Daniel Baran, on January 29 to this trend. A daredevil himself, Daniel previously posted videos of himself climbing on to the roof of San Francisco University's dorm buildings.

'Please think about your parents. It's so hard to lose a child; you'll be gone, but your parents will be left in this world wondering why you did this,' said his mother.

'Taking such an unnecessary risk leaves me speechless.'