Two Metallica fans in Australia have been slapped with lifetime bans from Perth’s Optus Stadium. The reason? They climbed a speaker tower during the band’s Nov. 1 concert, as part of their M72 World Tour. A judge called their stunt “incredibly stupid.”

According to local news outlet PerthNow, 20-year-old Beau William Loch Rollings and 23-year-old Rory Hugh Culbert were the men arrested. They jumped a safety barrier and scaled the central tower inside the stadium bowl. They reportedly were “clinging to the structure at heights reportedly between 10 and 50 meters for around 20 minutes while the concert continued.”

Ultimately, stadium security and police officers swooped in and apprehended the men. Officers also confiscated the men’s phones, which allegedly contained footage of their climbi

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