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- AutoTom, on 06/05/2008, -1/+122I love that this is a nytimes article...
like some dude from his cubicle was like 'holy *****! there's some dude out side my ***** window!' - 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."
- olivercross, on 06/05/2008, -3/+58That dude is awesome.
- batmanz, on 06/06/2008, -0/+53Dugg for the publisher of the New York Times declining to comment to the New York Times.
- 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 - bcos, on 06/05/2008, -1/+41http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_robert
- borez, on 06/06/2008, -6/+39“Global warming kills more people than 9/11 every week.”
Elaborate please - inactive, on 06/06/2008, -3/+34@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 - Inflammo, on 06/05/2008, -2/+31Didn't anyone tell him that heat rises?
- GhostWithToast, on 06/06/2008, -3/+29Might as well support his cause, here's the site he was promoting. http://thesolutionissimple.org/
- AutoTom, on 06/05/2008, -4/+25i think there are better ways to protest... but ok, you have fun climbing that building sir.
- parfait, on 06/06/2008, -0/+19You can just see all the journalists running out of their offices yelling "DIBS!!!"
- rezist, on 06/05/2008, -0/+16http://digg.com/people/2ND_MAN_CLIMBS_WEST_SIDE_BU ...
Here is another guy doing it right now - hmunkey, on 06/06/2008, -1/+16There are? I can't really think of a cooler way to protest than while scaling a building.
- rezist, on 06/05/2008, -7/+21He had a banner protesting global warming.
- inactive, 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 ... - 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." - 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.
- jcaino, on 06/06/2008, -6/+18Global Warming doesn't care about your protest.
- inactive, on 06/05/2008, -10/+21***** is a renewable resource
- inactive, 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 - 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. - 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.
- 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? :-)
- 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! - 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. - jon02129, on 06/06/2008, -1/+10You misunderstood rezist's post. He had the same point you did.
- inactive, on 06/06/2008, -1/+10yes, i read the article.
- HueytheFreeman, on 06/06/2008, -0/+8I like the part where the construction guy says, "Yeah, he gonna make it... We worked on this building"
"Is it safe?"
"No." (shakes head) - 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
- 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.
- bxblox, on 06/06/2008, -0/+8Alain Robert, coming to a no-fly list near you.
- Onyxblaze, on 06/06/2008, -0/+7And I quote, "your too dumb to even understand what you're typing".
- 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. - 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.
- elmontsmilitia, on 06/06/2008, -0/+7dont you mean police officer?
- paloooz, on 06/06/2008, -0/+6What law did he break? What was he arrested for? Trespassing?
- 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?"
- haroonie, on 06/05/2008, -2/+8Up and AT-THEM!!
- Tyrghast, on 06/06/2008, -1/+7It would be cool to march on washington for marijuana legalization, but we're plastered to our couches...
- inactive, on 06/06/2008, -0/+5Yeah! Let's go back to listening to FOX saying that Hillary still has a chance all day long!
- 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.
- 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.
- inactive, on 06/06/2008, -0/+4My hands got sweaty just by watching this...
- inactive, 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. - inactive, on 06/06/2008, -13/+17cool guy with a dumb ass banner. there is no way you can concretely link anyones death to global warming.
- ordig, on 06/06/2008, -0/+3No *****? Wow imagine if people just flocked like lemmings, and all climbed the NYT building at once...
- h4mx0r, on 06/06/2008, -0/+3Both of which are still nonetheless frickin awesome.
- n3tfury, on 06/05/2008, -20/+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. - inactive, on 06/06/2008, -0/+3It's called "Reply" and I swear it works.
Unlike what you just did. -
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