Don't Try This At Home
Filed under: Wacky, Tacky & True > Legal Matters
There sure are come crazies in New York City!
Thursday in NYC, not one but TWO individuals scaled to the top of a Manhattan skyscraper 52 stories hight. The same building (The New York Times building). On the same day. In unrelated events!
The first man was Alain Robert, a 45 year-old. On his way to the top, he opened a banner that read, "Global warming kills more people than a 9/11 every week."
Scary thought.
When he made it to the top of the building, he was arrested.
Robert said in a recent news release that he was climbing to mark the World Environment Day.
He wanted "to create support for far greater and urgent action from world leaders on global warming."
Then just a few hours later, another man scaled the building!
Television camera crews were around to film both incidents, with thousands of people standing behind police barricades watching.
The second individual, Renaldo Clarke, was also arrested upon reaching the top.
Though officers were worried he might not make it to the top as he appeared to be slowing down and growing tired. They started to shout words of encouragement and even dangled a rope for him to grab on to, but he decided to go on up alone.
Clarke was wearing a T-shirt that had "Malaria No More," written on it to help raise awareness for the organization trying to raise funds for bed nets to prevent malaria from spreading.
Both individuals have been charged with disorderly conduct, reckless endangerment, and criminal trespass.
Catherine Mathis, a spokesperson for The New York Times, which is housed inside that building, said the newspaper was "taking steps to prevent future occurrences. Their illegal and ill-considered actions jeopardized their safety and the safety of others."
As for their comments regarding the global warming comment, Mathis added that they have "a very green building. We wanted to minimize our environmental footprint."
Other are very upset by the situation, such as Councilman Peter Vallone, Jr., who said "Regardless of the cause, in this day and age the police department has more important things to worry about then ridiculous stunts like this that endanger the police and public. If he wants to climb something, he can climb the walls inside his jail cell at Rikers."
Folks should leave the scyscrapping to the indoor rock climbing venues!
those guys are crazyyyy
first
is he waring a harnes?
That is ridiculously cool. Mad respect.
lol parcour!
Just because he likes to scale skyscrapers doesn't make him crazy, it makes him an adventurer. Now following the daily antics of celebrities, that's fucking crazy.
coooool
I watched this from my office window… what a nut bag
Well, I'll be damned. I thought that was you up there, Perez. haha!
JONNY LOVE PEREZ
crazy! how did they even do that??
Global warming is a hoax
Ah so brave and so dumb…ya know someone else did it on another building right after this guy? That guy was sent to the psycho ward though..
Hey Perez! I was in NYC when it happened and i saw it! It was pretty crazy!
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Looks like a couple of bullets were dodged today folks . . . .
IT TOOK YOU THAT LONG TO HEAR ABOUT THIS?!!?
OVER 24 HOURS LATER
crazy
Re: Xtina –
someone did it on the SAME building
I love your site Perez. I really do, but I think your opinion is not needed here. We need more people like these two men in our world who are willing to risk their lives for their beliefs. Fuck a rock climbing gym, these two men deserve to be commended for their dedication to their political beliefs and plus they have the balls to do this. BRAVO!!! It's one thing to sit your ass at a computer bitching and complaining about shit, it's another to actually take some action on it.
PEREZZZZZZZ SUUUUUUCKKKKKKSSSSSS!
look!!!!! Wanna endanger your own ass that's up to you!!!! Fall and die don't expect tears from me!!!!! The most is mabe falling on someone else yeah that would suck but Police in general are bastards using excusies to justify murder of people!! ( oh yeah his cell phone looked like a 9mm bereta so we shot him 50 times to death to protect everyone else!! Oops!! ) fukin pigs!!!!!
I hope these guys paid for the policemen and for MY trouble that I had when I was stuck in traffic. OUR tax dollars gone to waste. Instead of thrills and their own personal infamy, they should work for Greenpeace!
global warming is such a gimmick for these loser democrats. Recycle your shit and then get a life.
Alain Robert is the bomb!!! He practically climbs every f%&kin tallest building in every country in the world…
Perez! Seriously, find a copyeditor. This story is full of typos and incomplete or poorly constructed sentences. "Scyscrapping?" WTF?
how the hell does someone scale a building n not fall. i swear all these environmental/peta vegan hippie pple are all freaks who have no fashion sense whatsoever…
UMMMM HELLO………..WHAT ABOUT GAS!!!! lets do something about gas prices please!!!!
Hardworking crane operators just parished, people were blown out of buildings on 9/11. Why would these idiots waste the NYPD and FDNY's time an resources? I hope the courts don't give these guys jail time. They should make them pay big bucks for all of the resources and wages that were wasted on these A-HOLES!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, sorry about the fall, global warming is a hoax.
The earth has cooled to 1975 levels. THERE HAS BEEN NO NET WARMING.
So, go ahead and do your little stunts, but pick another cause that makes sense.
hes not from ny.. hes from france.. & this story is like 24 hours old already
Gee, I heard about this yesterday. Way to break the news.
give me a serious break!!!! Pay for police cost!! The climbers may be idiots but police make us pay by taxes ( n e state funded agency is guilty of that!! ) the common public is held far more guilty of all acts while the state or Feds or both milks all of us for cash. Politicians police celebs all rich fucks have serious pull and us commoners pay the price!!!! But we do the field work!! Talk about the fucking ant that doesnt realize he or she is in an ant farm and says please sir can I have more!!
To bad they didnt take a swan dive ! Now that would have been interesting !!!!
GLOBAL WARMING IS A HOAX!!!!
Scary thought? How about COMPLETELY FALSE? How about COMPLETELY ASININE!?
How about completely retarded?
Obama: “I’m saddened by today’s verdict. This isn’t the Tony Rezko I knew…"
Obama: I'm cuttin' ties with Rev. Wright. He's not the man I once knew.
Obama: I'm cuttin' ties with Father Pfleger, he's not the man I once new.
Obama: I'm quittin' Trinity United. It's not the same Church I once knew.
Obama: "my superior judgment uniquely qualifies me to be President".
Alain Robert is a famous French climber. He regularly scales buildings much taller and much harder. He's known as 'Spiderman' and is AWESOME.
Rey is awesome
Global Warming does NOT exist! There is scientific proof that the Earth has gone through SEVERAL warming and cooling cycles through out it's history. TRUE we are damaging our enviroment, BUT the simple fact is that the Earth is in a natural warming cycle. Global Warming is nothing more than a ploy by the Democrats to push their agendas.
Stupid global warming idiots !!!
That pisses me off! Global warming does not kill more people than 9/11 every week. I'm so sick of these crazies spewing crap that has no factual basis.
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*"Others are very upset" not "Other are very upset.." you need the S on others
AND
*TWO individuals scaled to the top of a Manhattan skyscraper 52 stories high.
not TWO individuals scaled to the top of a Manhattan skyscraper 52 stories hight. No t needed on high.
**Proofread**
The global warming douche was a french frog fag. They should have shot him off the building. What an ass. Put him in jail for good, although he would enjoy it too much. The other was a spic probably an ex window washer the same goes for that idot too. In these times they should shoot anyone on site doing shit like that!
***EDIT!***
ALSO- the first sentence
"There sure are come crazies in New York City!
*Should be "There sure are some crazies in New York City!"
Substitute come for some
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Re: glae – Didn't you mean a spolied fruity beret wearin wine boozin cig smokin world war cowardly nazi lovin homo?
The moron with the global warming sign is french. He flew here and made his carbon footprint larger just to hang a sign. Hypocrisy at it's liberal best!
idiot. seriously.
Why protest Global Warming on an environmentally friendly constructed skyscraper?!
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You're such a shithead Mario! Alain Robert has been doing this sort of thing for years — and he is NOT a New Yorker, he's from France
Re: Raul –
More people like this? They did nothing but put other people's lives in danger and waste tax dollars. There are plenty of other avenues they could have utilized in their attempt to draw attention to their cause. Selfish, indulgent, and completely irresponsible.
If all you are going to post in comments is "first", you need to get a life.
Seriously.
CLIMB A FRIGGIN HUGE ASS BUILDING AS A WAY TO BRING AWARENESS TO STOP ”MALARIA”?? WHAT A DUMB FUCK!
TRY USING A FLY SWATTER AND SOME BUG SPRAY AND KILL THE MOSQUITOS,DONT DRINK TAINTED WATER DUMB ASS FUCK HOLES!!!
GET A CLUE RETARDS!
I HEARTILIY applaud their bravery…. and the courage to make a STRONG visual statement reflecting their beliefs…..
They were successful in getting attention……. bravo, fellas
Re: GENIUS – you are NO genius….
hahahahah
Such a Harold Lloyd stunt…
One of the guys is french and quite well known. He goes by "Spiderman" and climbs buildings all over the world in the same manner. Seems like you would know that….
I wish Global Warming would kill him.
So are you going to toell us what this organization that prevents malaria is, so that his mission actually has a purpose?
Alain Robert - spiderman- is no psycho, he has been doing this for years and years, and he practices for hours each day. it's basically his life and he does it for various charities. i think it's great, you need characters in this world. i'm guessing, since he's put all the effort in to climb 52 stories he wouldn't put a banner with groundless facts on it whilst risking his life…… oh and perez, your spelling is really starting to irk me.
I'd like to see his source that says global kills that much.
These people were from FRANCE NOT NEW YORK…and one was known for pulling stunts like this…..get it right perez
Everyone should be as adventurous.
This is old "news". Please stick to celebrity gossip - not "news", your personal opinions, your personal vendettas, your political opinions (including your Castro love), your homophobia, your racism, etc…
Perhaps the enviro whacko and the malaria guy should have a cage match. The deliciously ironic aspect to all this is crazy environmentalists like Rachel Carson (Silent Spring) are responsible for the ban on DDT, which has allowed Malaria to threaten millions all across the world. A better banner would be "Malaria kills 100X the victims of 9/11 every week." Don't fall for the global warming hoax, folks! Let's respect and protect the environment but let's not go all ape sh!t crazy over it!!
If you come away from something like that with only the thought "they're crazy!" then you're a moron.
PS, I KNEW Brody Jenner looked like a shortdick man.
did anyone mention that thay guys global warming comment is complete bullshit, i'de like to see some facts supporting that, there are none!
what a bunch of crap….
COOL!
last time i checked, "global warming" hasn't killed anyone yet…
and 9/11 killed 2,819 people. i can guarantee you that global warming does NOT kill 2,819 people a week. aids kills a lot of people, malaria kills a lot of people, but not global warming.
that guy is on drugs.
Global Warming is a global scam!
Also, the amount of corn needed to make bio fuel to
fill a car's gas tank one time would feed
feed a child for an entire year!
Food riots, anyone? Rash Manly
The first Earth Day that was created thirty years
ago was all about the COMING ICE AGE, also
known as GLOBAL COOLING at the time.
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Man made Global Cooling, by the way.
Don't take my word for it,
look it up. Rash Manly
.
The so called man made Global Warming hoax
is just a way for the UN and a few others to tax the evil USA
into third world country status.
…and they should have donated the money that they will be paying in legal fees for theis causes, instead…
i'd be your proofreader if you lose some weight. two things that will never happen.
"Global warming kills more people than a 9/11 every week." You are seriously disturbed if you think that statement is even remotely true. There is absolutely ZERO proof to that.
It's pathetic that a comparison of global warming to 9/11 is even being attempted. One of those is a REAL tragedy…I'm just sayin…
You people are crazy fuckers. Awesome shit though, you have my respect. The charges you'll face will certainly outweigh the awareness created to the people who read this site, and let them understand that the terrible tragedies we see in North America is completely eclipsed by the tragedy of America's dependency of foreign exploitation. Not just that, but the results of our inability to aide those that are highly susceptible to malaria.
These people are heroes. Total respect.
*clap clap clap clap….
To any of the people that are whining about the taxpayer cost etc etc
Go fuck yourselves, please, so we can stop hearing your whining. Consider this: those cops, emergency services, could be driving around helping people, etc … doing their job. but let's seriously consider the reality of their jobs. There are instances where nothing is happening, they're just sitting in their vehicles drinking a coffee. So what if they had to spend 6 hours of a day watching people do stupid shit like climbing a building. It made it on the news, and that measly … let's even be absurd - $1 million - will have made at least several thousand people consider the poverty and ridiculuously impoverished conditions many people around the world face.
If you really want to make sure your 50 cents of income doesn't go towards unnecessary policing, please go kill yourself now because it should really happen far more often than it does. Tits or gtfo.
fuck the police and the government! all they are trying to do is to stop the flow of valuable information that we may never have heard by making these guys out to be idiots. they are not idiots! listen to them… not what "they" say!
Re: WRONG – only the stunt guy is from France. Rey Clarke is from Rockaway, Queens
Are you sure this wasn't JARED LETO? He likes to climb things and is
an enviornmentalist too. LOL
Hey these guys stuck to what they believe in. I give them all the respect in the world. You know good and well most of us are quite complacent with our lives and guess what? No positive change comes from being comfortable all the time. These men are no more crazy than us believing the problems of the world don't affect us.
Global Warming is hot
no one will believe me, but the first time i went by that building and saw all the ceramic cladding on it, i thought: hey, i've done rock wall climbing, that's doable.
"Global warming kills more people than a 9/11 every week."
Scary indeed. That anyone actually believes that.
I LOVE THESE GUYS! Finally someone is doing something to stop these major issues!!!! =]]
Re: Ashbas –
Um the "global warming" guy was a nutjob that was taken to the psych ward.
I hope he feels better now
Perez you do not know Alain Robert? It seems your perception of the Famous and Notorious is somewhat limited… Read the news from time to time.
FIRST. crazy people
That was stupid… hug a tree instead.
thats fuckin awesome!