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Man Scales New York Times Building

cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com — A man holding a bright green banner has ascended the north face of the New York Times building, climbing more than 16 stories as of 12:15 p.m., while the police and security officials cordoned off the sidewalk on West 41st Street.

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  • rezist, on 06/05/2008, -7/+21He had a banner protesting global warming.
    • Inflammo, on 06/05/2008, -2/+31Didn't anyone tell him that heat rises?
    • SuperWinner, on 06/05/2008, -10/+21***** is a renewable resource
    • jcaino, on 06/06/2008, -6/+18Global Warming doesn't care about your protest.
    • JointVenture, on 06/06/2008, -6/+17Does he know how much carbon was wasted by the resources (police and fire department) that responded to his stunt.
      Not to mention the media vans, and .000009 Amps per keystroke wasted by all the greeners blogging about it
      • utahnkid, on 06/06/2008, -9/+3Didn't you know that us worthless humans' mere existence kills baby seals and harmless dolphins EVERY DAY? I'd tell you to kill yourself but the investigation and funeral to take place afterwards would kill even more. If you can just cease to exist that would be great.
        • JointVenture, on 06/06/2008, -4/+1Metro-sexual *****. Maybe you would be able to understand what you're reading if you would stop sucking the locks of your hair falling in front of your face.

          You look ridiculous. No need to ask why you cant find a job, just look in the mirror.
        • utahnkid, on 06/06/2008, -0/+2That's funny.. Because your mom hates it too. I guess it tickles he neck when I'm on top.

          Have fun at anger management, psycho.
        • lionel1024, on 06/06/2008, -0/+1Why is everyone digging utahnkid down? It's sarcasm!
        • utahnkid, on 06/06/2008, -0/+1Holy freaking hell thank you so much lionel1024.. I have a little more faith in the Digg community now. I wrote this detailed response to that douche bag trying to explain how i was just going along with him but just gave up. It was a JOOOOKE.
        • JointVenture, on 06/06/2008, -1/+1It was incoherent drivel, I was just making fun of the mouth breather.

          Oh yeah, keep your day job, you're not funny.
    • diggrnumber1, on 06/06/2008, -1/+10yes, i read the article.
    • monoa, on 06/06/2008, -3/+3... which read "Global warming kills more people than 9/11 every week."

      That's an inconvenient truth for the gluttonous western world [3,2,1 ... bury]
  • dburka, on 06/05/2008, -5/+73You've got to love Alain Robert. I can just imagine being at passport control... "Welcome to America Mr. Robert. Which building do you think you might tackle this time around? Oh, the new Renzo Piano-designed Times building? Sounds a bit easy for you perhaps. Oh, to bring attention to Global Warming? Great, enjoy your stay in our fair country."
    • bxblox, on 06/06/2008, -0/+8Alain Robert, coming to a no-fly list near you.
    • icecoldtrashcan, on 06/06/2008, -1/+1There was a documentary on Channel 4 about him a couple of months ago. He's quite an amazing guy. His bedroom contains a climbing wall.

      I believe he attempted Taipei 101, but was intercepted half way up.
  • bcos, on 06/05/2008, -1/+41http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_robert
  • olivercross, on 06/05/2008, -3/+58That dude is awesome.
    • poiuytrewq44, on 06/06/2008, -10/+3Terrorists are not awesome no matter how environmentally friendly.
      • R4mbini, on 06/06/2008, -1/+2he's no terrorist, he's spiderman!!! (and a complete legend for having the guts to solo huge buildings)
    • Cattywampus, on 06/06/2008, -9/+3If more of those ceramic pieces he was climbing on had broken off and hurt someone, that wouldn't have been so awesome.

      A pretty selfish act, as much such stunts are. Is anyone going to drive less, or recycle more, because this guy risked other people's safety to unfurl a global warming banner?

    • j1ggy, on 06/06/2008, -0/+1What is it building climbing season or something? Did I miss the memo on this over the past couple of years? You hear about people scaling buildings and bridges all the time, it's like the cool thing to do now. Whatever happened to the simple ways of getting your point across. Like say... Digg.
      • kelmaster1, on 06/06/2008, -0/+2You can't get a point across on digg! Everyone is a critic.
    • Melodik, on 06/06/2008, -2/+1I do not know the negative adjective that describes you both, but it means you are both jerks. Jerks >: (
      • Cattywampus, on 06/06/2008, -0/+2Wow, what a useful comment! I spell out specific, logical reasons why this climbing stunt was NOT a good idea, and all you can come up with is to call people "jerks"?
  • rezist, on 06/05/2008, -5/+15The police were waiting at the top, and one was actually in a position to grab him before he was on the roof. Alain stood up and turned around to wave, before climbing onto the roof proper. I can't believe they wouldn't just wait for the dude to complete the climb.
    • atbnet, on 06/06/2008, -14/+7What do you want them to do? Send someone up after him? Or just shoot him off the building? If someone tried to grab him and in the process knocked him off the building that sure wouldn't be good PR. So they might as well just let him fall by himself or make it to the top.
      • jon02129, on 06/06/2008, -1/+10You misunderstood rezist's post. He had the same point you did.
  • AutoTom, on 06/05/2008, -4/+25i think there are better ways to protest... but ok, you have fun climbing that building sir.
    • hmunkey, on 06/06/2008, -1/+16There are? I can't really think of a cooler way to protest than while scaling a building.
      • Tyrghast, on 06/06/2008, -1/+7It would be cool to march on washington for marijuana legalization, but we're plastered to our couches...
        • Cattywampus, on 06/06/2008, -2/+4How about a way that doesn't potentially drop sharp ceramic shards onto people from 50 stories up, or cause gridlock in an area that's already heavily congested?
    • feliks2, on 06/06/2008, -2/+2Name some.
    • monoa, on 06/06/2008, -0/+1What? Standing on a street corner with a placard? Writing a strongly-worded email to the NYT?

      The very fact that he's hit ~1200 Diggs, that he'll appear on TV, websites, in newspapers, radio worldwide seems like a pretty effective protest to me.
    • kelmaster1, on 06/06/2008, -0/+1Well lets see, he got the NYTimes attention as well as ours. I'd like to see you do that on a blog. Besides, protesting is pretty much illegal, there might be a few sidewalks that they'll contain you on, but nobody cares because everyone things your a jobless protester.
  • AutoTom, on 06/05/2008, -1/+121I love that this is a nytimes article...

    like some dude from his cubicle was like 'holy *****! there's some dude out side my ***** window!'
    • parfait, on 06/06/2008, -0/+19You can just see all the journalists running out of their offices yelling "DIBS!!!"
    • kelmaster1, on 06/06/2008, -0/+2I love the nytimes said he was for cutting carbon emissions, not reducing deforestation which is the real problem (and the dude's #1 objective). Seems that cutting carbon emissions is profitable for some people but reducing deforestation is not. Deforestation is the real problem...
  • crazydoglady1, on 06/05/2008, -1/+43Ok--this guy is pretty crazy.But my all time fave is Phillipe Petit. Dude walked between the WTC towers in 1974 on a steel cable with nothing to catch him, just a pole to balance. :-)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Petit
    • Cattywampus, on 06/06/2008, -0/+2There's a documentary out about him, Man on a Wire I think it's called. It's gotten pretty good reviews.
      • Skitals, on 06/06/2008, -0/+1It's called High Wire... no imdb reviews, and can't find it anywhere :(
        • Cattywampus, on 06/06/2008, -0/+1High Wire is a much older film (1980s, which is probably why you can't find anything on it).

          Man on a Wire was released this year, and shown at the Tribeca Film Festival a couple of months ago.
    • Laminarcissus, on 06/06/2008, -1/+1Really?

      Why don't they mention these things in the article?!
      • ashley916, on 06/06/2008, -0/+1it's wikipedia! duh...
        while it is a good source of general information, don't believe everything you read, and don't forget that there might be something missing...

        you could always add that little tidbit though
        • Laminarcissus, on 06/06/2008, -0/+1Great! Can I use the original article as my source?!
        • crazydoglady1, on 06/06/2008, -0/+1Yeah--I could've linked other articles--I chose to link his Wiki geez. I originally found out about him years ago by a book I came across called "To Reach the Clouds" Its worth the purchase, tells his story and has lots of amazing photos.
      • Cattywampus, on 06/06/2008, -0/+1It is mentioned in the article, which gives a link to the Times review...
        http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/18/movies/18trib.ht ...

        Don't know if the film was mentioned when the article first went up, though. The article was updated many times throughout the day and the reference may have been added later.
    • Vodd9, on 06/06/2008, -0/+1Wikipedia Down!?
  • YesImAChick, on 06/05/2008, -3/+13I like this part: "(Designed to be environmentally sensitive, the tower is sheathed in distinctive horizontal ceramic rods that are intended to diffuse sunlight, allowing natural light to enter the building while keeping out heat and increasing the building’s energy efficiency.)" Would this be in there if Robert's sign said something different? :-)
    • HueytheFreeman, on 06/06/2008, -0/+9I like the part where the construction guy says, "Yeah, he gonna make it... We worked on this building"
      "Is it safe?"
      "No." (shakes head)
    • Cattywampus, on 06/06/2008, -0/+1It probably would be... he apparently chose the NYT building because it's a "green" building, and the reason the building has the unusual horizontal rods is for energy efficiency. It's a very odd design with those rods... I walked by that building every week while it was being built and never knew what the heck those rods were for.

      The rods make the building quite easy to climb, so I'm sure there will be more stunts like this in the future. You don't to be an expert climber to get up the side of the building using those rods.
    • Laminarcissus, on 06/06/2008, -1/+1I don't know, the building comes off all environmentally sensitive at first, but then it just treats the environment like ***** exactly like every other building has before. I don't know why the environment puts up with it.
  • shade1012, on 06/05/2008, -8/+2finally a new way to protest
  • rezist, on 06/05/2008, -0/+16http://digg.com/people/2ND_MAN_CLIMBS_WEST_SIDE_BU ...

    Here is another guy doing it right now
    • squarepegs, on 06/06/2008, -0/+3And here's a different link to pictures and video both climbers. (The first was the famous Alain Robert aka "spiderman".) The video of the second guy shows him stopping because he was clearly exhausted, but the windows don't open, so there was no going back for him either.

      http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/loc ...
    • diggrnumber1, on 06/06/2008, -0/+2he made it
  • rezist, on 06/05/2008, -5/+2http://media.myfoxny.com/live/index.html

    live feed of copycat climb
  • AltairMetamorf, on 06/05/2008, -10/+4Ha! I told you! Parkour is taking over the world... GOOD!
    • BaoUnit, on 06/06/2008, -0/+7Parkour is not about climbing buildings, it's about efficiency and safety between two points. Alain is about free climbing.
      • h4mx0r, on 06/06/2008, -0/+3Both of which are still nonetheless frickin awesome.
  • haroonie, on 06/05/2008, -2/+8Up and AT-THEM!!
  • n3tfury, on 06/05/2008, -21/+23"A security guard remarked, “Apparently, he’s a professional climber,” and a police officer replied: “To be honest, looking at this building, you don’t have to be a professional. This building is like a ladder.”

    uh, yeah, you do have to be a professional. no noob is going to be able to scale that like he did. security guards - yet another shining example why they're making minimum wage.
    • elmontsmilitia, on 06/06/2008, -0/+7dont you mean police officer?
    • jamesLankford, on 06/06/2008, -2/+6your too dumb to even understand what you're typing
      • Onyxblaze, on 06/06/2008, -0/+7And I quote, "your too dumb to even understand what you're typing".
    • utahnkid, on 06/06/2008, -2/+5What's worse then your epic fail of a comment is that people actually liked it enough to digg it up.

      As n3tfury already pointed out it was the POLICE OFFICER who said that, not the security guard.

      And yes any healthy person can climb a ladder-esq building. Very few skills beyond the basic fear of heights and added strength in the legs would help someone perform this stunt. It's not like he was setting anchor points and gauging where the best line of ascent would be.

      You'll get it next time bud. I'm sure of it.
      • chuckDontSurf, on 06/06/2008, -0/+2"Very few skills beyond the basic fear of heights and added strength in the legs would help someone perform this stunt."
        Yeah, except for the fact that it's dead ***** vertical. Anyone who hasn't had some experience climbing won't know to push up with their legs rather than pull up with their arms, and their arms will flame out in about 5 minutes. You're right in that they don't need to know anything about protecting the route, but to say that "any healthy person can climb a ladder-esq building" is ridiculous.
        • utahnkid, on 06/06/2008, -0/+1Don't be so desperate to argue. Just look at what you're defending: That someone would have to be a PROFESSIONAL climber to do that. My only point is quite simply: that's not true. If you want to argue the exact skill level then I think you sort of missed my whole point. I know from reading what you wrote that you agree with me so just let it be.

          But hey at least you replied instead of just digging it down. Props for that.
        • RobotLeAwesome, on 06/06/2008, -2/+1you guys are retarded
    • Cattywampus, on 06/06/2008, -0/+1"uh, yeah, you do have to be a professional. no noob is going to be able to scale that like he did."

      Have you actually seen the NYT building? Or have you actually climbed *any" building? If not, how would you know what is possible by a "noob" and what requires the skill of a "professional"?

      The second NYT climber definitely did not sound like a "professional" climber.


  • Doomsan, on 06/05/2008, -5/+2It's you Peter?
  • coreyb, on 06/06/2008, -2/+14This guy is one of my heros. Seriously, he has the guts to climb buildings for the sheer pleasure, but does not get pissed when he gets arrested for doing it. He is a gentleman in the real sense of the term.
  • theatheist, on 06/06/2008, -9/+3this guy is doing it for a notable cause, but i doubt 3000 people or so dies every week due to global warming. atleast not yet.

    if you count wildlife then thats another argument.
  • GhostWithToast, on 06/06/2008, -3/+29Might as well support his cause, here's the site he was promoting. http://thesolutionissimple.org/
  • borez, on 06/06/2008, -6/+40“Global warming kills more people than 9/11 every week.”

    Elaborate please
    • NotNamedDwayne, on 06/06/2008, -1/+9I guess if your willing to free solo cling a building you are allowed to make any claim you like
    • diggrnumber1, on 06/06/2008, -1/+14i didn't believe it at first either, but it turns out it's not just some crazy theory. I think it might be the first actually truthful protest banner I have ever seen:

      http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/news/2003/09/6 ...
      http://environment.about.com/b/2008/02/28/global-w ...
      http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/07/07070 ...
      • HotBaconSauce, on 06/06/2008, -1/+1"About 160,000 people die every year from side effects of global warming ranging from malaria to malnutrition."

        Drowning deaths also increase with ice cream sales.
    • Cattywampus, on 06/06/2008, -2/+4I wonder how much global warming was caused by all the buses at the city's largest bus terminal (right across the street from the NYT building, and idling because of the gridlock), or all the cars idling and unable to move, or all the police vehicles that had to be started up and moved to the scene...
    • SuperWinner, on 06/06/2008, -3/+1I think he is referring to the heat waves where old people die. What they don't tell you is that more people died from the colder winters they used to get, and now a lot less people die cuz they get much warmer winters.
  • mikesbaker, on 06/06/2008, -13/+18cool guy with a dumb ass banner. there is no way you can concretely link anyones death to global warming.
    • yayintertubes, on 06/06/2008, -11/+2katrina much?
      • 0011002, on 06/06/2008, -2/+3So hurricane Camille that was also a category 5 hurricane that hit the Mississippi gulf coast in 1969 very close to the same spot Katrina hit it was also global warming?

        I lost my home to Katrina and I lived in Mississippi before you try to tell me it only hit Louisiana . Also I define hitting the state when the eye of the storm makes landfall there. 30ft wave killed my Apt.
      • jamesLankford, on 06/06/2008, -1/+3dumbass
    • D14BL0, on 06/06/2008, -9/+3There's no way you can concretely link your intelligence to your posts.
      • jamesLankford, on 06/06/2008, -2/+5another dumbass

        go ahead, show us where 50000 people died last year due to global warming
    • Knucklecallus, on 06/06/2008, -2/+2Yeah, actually, you can. Just like you can link malaria to mosquitoes to stagnant water, you can link drought, disease, and malnutrition to a rise in temperature to global warming, or more appropriately, climate change.
      • mikesbaker, on 06/06/2008, -0/+1just because you put words together to make a sentence does not make that sentence true
      • Slovenian6474, on 06/06/2008, -0/+1Correlation does NOT prove or disprove ANYTHING.
    • earthceltic, on 06/06/2008, -1/+1on the other hand, prove to me it *cant*
    • monoa, on 06/06/2008, -0/+1Apart from with all the incontrovertible evidence that you've denied, not researched and not read.

      As I'm a computer genius, I've prepared a link for you:

      http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&hl=en&safe=off&q ...
  • FXPooky, on 06/06/2008, -5/+8As good of a cause as global warming might be, you should still pick slogans that are actually TRUE. Currently, the drop in cold deaths are far greater than the rise in heat deaths (about 40 times greater in fact). We won't see an actual rise in total deaths linked to global warming for a few decades yet.

    There are other problems due to global warming though! Don't hurt me!
    • monoa, on 06/06/2008, -1/+1Always the same with the denial gang: wild assertions, no evidence.

      http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&hl=en&safe=off&q ...
      • FXPooky, on 06/06/2008, -1/+1I never said heat deaths weren't rising, I said cold deaths were dropping far more quickly, so the TOTAL number of directly attributable deaths is dropping right now.

        Nonetheless I'm not a denier, it's just that heat deaths isn't an actual problem yet.
  • rentmitchum, on 06/06/2008, -0/+10If the banner said Bruce anywhere on it we could have had the headline "Bruce Banner climbs New York Times building".. but no.. the french had to mess it up.

    Also, does anyone else think it's stupid to arrest someone for climbing things? I mean, c'mon. Climbing something never hurt anyone.. the falling might, but they didn't arrest him for falling, so it's a victimless crime.
  • Simonft, on 06/06/2008, -7/+7A Times reporter asked, “Where are you from and why are you doing this?” Mr. Robert said, “France. Paris.”
    Beautiful.
    • JointVenture, on 06/06/2008, -3/+2Yeah, beautiful.

      The country that let 15,000 old people die from a heat wave(2003) while the rest of the population went to the beach for vacation.
    • Cattywampus, on 06/06/2008, -3/+1How much greenhouse gas was expelled for this dude to fly from Paris to New York to climb a building with his anti-global warming banner?
  • D14BL0, on 06/06/2008, -2/+4There were two people - both of which were arrested - and I know at least one of them hung some sort of 9/11 poster up there. One of them suffers from vertigo, is 60% disabled, and has already suffered many climbing-related injuries.

    They've got balls.
    • rezist, on 06/06/2008, -0/+3I was watching the end of the local news as the reporter said we have breaking news... but go to the website because we can't show it on air in case he falls. I watched it stream live and my hands were a bit sweaty, I was thinking how the ***** aren't that dudes sweating.
      • D14BL0, on 06/06/2008, -0/+1Really? CNN was showing it live the entire time this morning.
  • galvo, on 06/06/2008, -3/+1"Introduce yourself.."
  • miketh01, on 06/06/2008, -6/+3i think this guy should be obama's running mate..
  • HumanRecall, on 06/06/2008, -3/+33@News women to construction worker who worked on the building

    News women
    Is he going to be ok

    construction worker
    Oh yeah he will be ok ...he'll be fine

    News women
    Is the building safe for climbing

    construction worker
    ahhhhhhhhh........... NO


    PRICELESS :P
    • topbob, on 06/06/2008, -1/+14that was the worst para-phrase, here let me help.

      "Yea hes ganna make it, well we worked on this building"
      "Is it safe to climb?"
      "-No."
      • HumanRecall, on 06/06/2008, -6/+1I don't para-phrase to para-phrase is to steal someone words a la plagiarism - i can't speak for them so i put it in my own words ...there was no difference. I wasn't going back to the video just watch it a 2nd time to come back here and play interpreter...i did from memory the best i could ! :/ ....Sorry Teach !
        • sup34dog, on 06/06/2008, -0/+1...except that you left out the fact that he worked on the building, a fact that makes him a credible source when he states that the building isn't safe for climbing.
  • lucutus, on 06/06/2008, -9/+1This guy does this ***** all the time just to get attention. Stop giving it to him! Hell this was 80% of Fox news today. He's gotten enough attention.
    • D14BL0, on 06/06/2008, -0/+5Yeah! Let's go back to listening to FOX saying that Hillary still has a chance all day long!
    • UNDERSTAR, on 06/06/2008, -1/+2Who the ***** watches Faux News?
    • dvsbastard, on 06/06/2008, -0/+1Something like this takes skill, strength and gigantic kahunas... So at least he is worthy of the attention...
  • batmanz, on 06/06/2008, -0/+53Dugg for the publisher of the New York Times declining to comment to the New York Times.
  • miketh01, on 06/06/2008, -3/+6global warming only kills people when they scale the side of large buildings with banners and then fall..
  • officialjose, on 06/06/2008, -2/+3more like the french iggy pop... amirite?
  • A2007HokieAlumn, on 06/06/2008, -0/+4Also interesting, a second person attempted to climb the New York Times building today as well, right after Alain Robert finished. I heard it on WNYC (NPR) when I was driving home from work. As of 7:00 PM EST he was hanging onto the side of the building.
    • ordig, on 06/06/2008, -0/+3No *****? Wow imagine if people just flocked like lemmings, and all climbed the NYT building at once...
    • ordig, on 06/06/2008, -2/+1No *****? Wow just imagine if people flocked like lemmings and climbed the NYT building all at once...
  • PussInBoots, on 06/06/2008, -0/+4My hands got sweaty just by watching this...
  • hpymondays, on 06/06/2008, -0/+6This guy is incredible. He will inevitably find his death one of these days when his hand slips, but meanwhile, it's absolutely incredible. I watched a TV show about him and it was really scary to watch. Not for the faint of heart. The only question is "why?"
  • Zandarrr, on 06/06/2008, -2/+9There's really no point in arresting him. He wasn't harming anyone or anything and he clearly has no fear of being imprisoned. He's been arrested several times before, according to the report, and doesn't have any intention to stop.

    A big thumbs up to clever activism.
    • 0011002, on 06/06/2008, -0/+4I really don't understand why your being Dugg down. I mean i don;t see the point in arresting him either.
  • krnldmp, on 06/06/2008, -1/+9The wanking police and their cordons. It wont keep the spray from his head close to the building for easy cleanup if he falls. If you're walking along and you get crushed by a falling person wearing a huge irridescent green banner, you deserve it.
  • n0xz, on 06/06/2008, -2/+1I thought the smart people who watch Foxnews is needing personal attention ...
  • NotNamedDwayne, on 06/06/2008, -2/+2If America would just encourage this sort of thing instead of arresting everyone who gets it in his/her head to do something cool and exciting than our nation would be a much more interesting place. It is sad that we to import (and then arrest) Frenchmen just to make our lives interesting.
  • PussInBoots, on 06/06/2008, -8/+4From wiki "..He almost fell when a woman on the other side of the glass screamed and almost fainted. Witnesses said that he was detained upon completing the climb. [7] He stated that his climb was intended to increase awareness of global warming.[8]"

    Because of some stupid ***** worthless bitch, such a great climber could die... Wow, just wow
    • multifaceted, on 06/12/2008, -0/+1how about wow for calling someone worthless with they where understandably surprised that someone was outside the window
  • ChinezePanda, on 06/06/2008, -0/+92nd guy did this around 6 pm as well. Im located on the corner of 41st and 9th and had front row seats to the second guy scaling the building.

    Was awesome.

    Everyone came out into the street. Blocked traffic. Cheering him on. Even the cops were cheering this guy on. When he reached the top the street erupted in thunderous applause and cheering. Was great.

    God I love this city!
    • ordig, on 06/06/2008, -0/+2What was the second guys deal? was he also a professional?
      • ChinezePanda, on 06/06/2008, -0/+3Believe he actually was. he was stopping every 5 floors. But eventually made it to the top.

        The building is built as such where it basically is infact like a ladder on the outside. Though you'd have to be a professional climber to attempt something like this. I dont care what people say, THE BUILDING IS HIGH! And only a trained and experience climber can make a VERTICLE ascent up a 52 story building.

        An amateur would of surely fallen, Skyscrapers sway in the in the wind for one, and two... anyone would have fallen just cause of the simple fact of looking down and the effects of vertigo.

        Was awesome to watch. You coulndt help but think.. "GO FOR THE TOP!" as well as people were turning away when he stopped.. some even said ,

        "You know.. we might all wind up needing therapy if this guy looses his footing and grip and falls to his death."

        I've seen people jump in NYC... (I saw the people jump from the WTC on 9/11.... from 2 blocks away)

        People EXPLODE on impact from that height.
        • RobotLeAwesome, on 06/06/2008, -0/+1Vertigo has nothing to do with heights.
        • ChinezePanda, on 06/06/2008, -0/+1I couldnt find the term for that feeling you get when you look down from really high and become all ***** up and wobbly.
    • Jumpeplowski, on 06/06/2008, -0/+1I'm guessing the NYT building is getting something to block people from climbing sometime soon.
    • ChinezePanda, on 06/06/2008, -0/+1There are police officers every 20 feet circling the building. Been there since yesterday.
  • teohyc, on 06/06/2008, -1/+2This is so AWESOME! 10/10.
  • pops79, on 06/06/2008, -3/+4How does a scientific myth kill more people then 9/11? (may all those who died rest in peace)
  • JointVenture, on 06/06/2008, -2/+6He's french right?

    Somebody needs to ask him why France let 15,000 people die in 2003 during a heat wave.

    They basically left the old at home to die while they all went on vacation.
    • DeFex, on 06/06/2008, -5/+1same reason americans do it all the time to the poor i guess.
    • Knucklecallus, on 06/06/2008, -0/+1I was in France during that heat wave. its not like people were keeling over left and right. What a ridiculous claim... let 15,000 people die. Like the whole of France had a clear decision to make. How could you prevent those deaths? Ice baths, popsicles, and a foot massage? A little over a half million french people die each year.
      • JointVenture, on 06/06/2008, -0/+1Wow, you were there and you didnt read the papers where they clearly placed the blame.

        Here ya go you dumb *****,

        "The massive death toll in France has been blamed on France's labour laws which contributed to severe staff shortages in the public health and aged care systems during the country's summer holidays, as well as a lack of air-conditioning in French medical facilities. The government of Jacques Chirac and his Minister for Health, Jean-François Mattei, were condemned for failing to issue warnings and not recalling staff back to work as news of mortality spikes were being reported from the health surveillance authorities."

        Have a nice day
    • FishFat, on 06/06/2008, -0/+1Smart guy, a heat wave is a natural disaster much like tornadoes, typhoons, earthquakes and the likes. Don't be so ignorant.
      Furthermore he's French, so what does he do, he fights against something that happened in his country because he doesn't want to see it happen again.
      I hate commenting but sometimes I read the most ridiculous ignorance-spreading things.
      • JointVenture, on 06/06/2008, -0/+1He could climb a building in France and hold a banner for a problem that people actually have control over.

        Hey smart guy, look before you leap into the pit of stupidity.

        "The massive death toll in France has been blamed on France's labour laws which contributed to severe staff shortages in the public health and aged care systems during the country's summer holidays, as well as a lack of air-conditioning in French medical facilities. The government of Jacques Chirac and his Minister for Health, Jean-François Mattei, were condemned for failing to issue warnings and not recalling staff back to work as news of mortality spikes were being reported from the health surveillance authorities."

        nice try, come back when you've half a brain.
  • keithnoir, on 06/06/2008, -0/+0He could have made a ton if he waited till the next Spiderman film came out.....
    • adml_shake, on 06/06/2008, -0/+1Sony probably would have sued him into bankruptcy.
  • BlackJackJester, on 06/06/2008, -0/+1so do bears, good sir, so do bears.
  • paloooz, on 06/06/2008, -0/+6What law did he break? What was he arrested for? Trespassing?
    • DeFex, on 06/06/2008, -0/+3unlawful fun.
    • Cattywampus, on 06/06/2008, -1/+1For creating huge quantities of greenhouse gases to fly all over the world to climb up buildings with an anti-global-warming banner.
    • Andy1369, on 06/06/2008, -0/+2Was wonderin the same thing!
    • digitronix, on 06/06/2008, -0/+2Being a serial climber
  • sigafoo, on 06/06/2008, -2/+1Um... it does. Listen to the video/read the article FTW
    • utahnkid, on 06/06/2008, -0/+3It's called "Reply" and I swear it works.

      Unlike what you just did.
  • iPood, on 06/06/2008, -0/+9I actually got to see the second guy climb the building. I was out on my lunch break around the time the first guy was climbing, and I noticed a helicopter hovering around the Port Authority Bus Terminal (I work about 8 blocks away). I didn't think anything of it, but I heard about it later in the day.

    I got out of work around 6 and I was walking to Port Authority to catch my bus home, and I noticed another chopper in the air before I was even within sight of the bus terminal. Again, I thought nothing of it, I figured they were just reporting on the guy who had climbed the building around lunch time.

    As I got closer to the NY Times building, I noticed dozens of people looking up and pointing. I finally see what everyone is looking at...a lunatic climbing the side of the building with nothing at all for safety. I had to watch until he got to the top, and I was seriously hoping he didn't fall...nobody wants to see that. But yeah, it was a pretty crazy scene, I wish my camera phone didn't suck ass so I could've gotten some better pictures.
  • kevro, on 06/06/2008, -0/+1"He said he believed the news media would give more prominence to coverage of global warming if a man climbed a prominent building." Mission accomplished.
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