"Very nearly fatal" Moment man falls 15ft placing traffic cone on Edinburgh statue

"Leave the idea to Glasgow. It's dangerous."15:39, 22 Jul 2026Moment Edinburgh man falls from 15ft statueThe "near fatal" moment a man fell from a 15-foot tall Robert Burns statue in Edinburgh has been caught on camera. The worrying act was seen at around 2am on Thursday morning, as a duo attempted to place a traffic cone on the head of the poet's statue in Leith.‌As they failed to get the cone on top, one of the men lost his balance and plunged to the pavement. Duncan Robertson, who filmed in the incident in shock, told Edinburgh Live he was "concerned" by what he saw.‌The traffic cone tradition is most associated with the statue of the Duke of Wellington outside the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow, which has been seen with a cone on its head since the '80s.‌But after the Tartan Army's W