Posted on 09/06/2010 10:00:56 PM PDT by walkerk
A daredevil in a red jumpsuit, equipped with suction cups and an American flag, clambered up 58 stories of a San Francisco residential tower Monday to dramatize the vulnerability of skyscrapers to terrorism and his own fight against cancer.
It was also, his publicist acknowledged afterward, an attempt to call attention to his recent book - which, he said, details his concerns in detail.
The climber, who identified himself in a flyer as Dan Goodwin, a.k.a. SpiderDan, was greeted by police as he reached a balcony two floors below the top of the 60-story Millennium Tower at 301 Mission St. He was arrested for trespassing and creating a public nuisance, both misdemeanors, said Lt. Kevin McNaughton.
Goodwin, 54, is a building contractor who lives in North Lake Tahoe. According to a news release left for reporters at the outset of his three-hour climb, he had scaled the World Trade Center in New York in 1983 to illustrate the difficulty of rescues from skyscrapers.
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We had a guy climb a skyscraper in Seattle last week as well.
Ummmmm ... I don't think so.
Why not? In 1983?
Being in a skyscraper is a bit like flying in an airplane. Everything is great until something goes wrong.
Because it would have been publicized. And besides, the only person to 'scale' the World Trade Center did so 5 years earlier, in 1977 ... one George Willig:
what building was that? I must have missed that one!
Oh man. Snipers can fix that, if it is deemed a problem. This guy is a nut.
If he can get up that way, he can get down that way too.
Maybe suction cup shoes should be stocked as emergency supplies in all skyscrapers.
Obviously law enforcement can’t let this type of thing run amok, but it is fascinating and really brave.
For example Philippe Petit walked a wire between New York’s Twin Towers back in the 70s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Petit
I saw him on the sidewalk in Paris in 1970 where he strung his line and performed.
This 54 year old doing a three hour climb is pretty impressive. The flag at the top was cool, too.
I get scared just looking at him up there.
“There is a movie about the World Trade Center wire walker. “
I saw it. When he did the walk in the 70s I knew it was the guy we had seen in Paris, too.
Of course, publicizing the others would only have encouraged more. By way of making a point, most everyone knows who Sir Edmund Hillary was and what he did. Who was the second guy to climb Everest?
It is a fact. I was there.
Why do a lot of people here start their sentences with “ummmmm”. It’s a bit strange.
No one knows if it was Hillary or Tenzing Norkay who was the first, as they made the top together. (Tenzing later claimed it was Hillary who was first) The second ascent was made by two Swiss: Adolf Reist and Hans Roudolf.
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/10/hillary-clintons-not-namesake-passes-away/
Hillary Clinton’s not-namesake passes away
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