“I got handcuffed and thrown in the back of a truck, taken down to central and put in a holding tank with everybody else.” The high-wire artist Jade Kindar-Martin is reminiscing about his first night in a cell, under arrest for a clandestine skywalk between the two towers of Montreal’s Notre-Dame Basilica.
“I had put on my costume!” he chuckles. “It’s pants held up by suspenders. They took my suspenders away, so I was shuffling around in shoes without laces in them and pants without suspenders, holding my pants up, for 36 hours until I got bailed out.”
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