New York – Police have removed a man from the facade of the 58-story Trump Tower in New York City.
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Special operations officers could be seen grabbing the unidentified climber into an opened window on the building’s 21st floor Wednesday evening.
After he was hauled into the window onlookers gathered on the streets below the Fifth Avenue tower cheered.
Police say he’s now in custody.
Witnesses say the man started climbing Donald Trump’s namesake skyscraper at about 4 p.m. He was wearing a backpack and used suction cups, ropes and a harness to slowly climb the building from an outdoor terrace just a few floors up.
The tower is headquarters to the Republican presidential nominee’s campaign and his business empire. He also lives there.
Trump was not in the building.
The lunatic looks like a Bernie supporter.
On May 26, 1977, George Willig of Queens climbed the South Tower of the World Trade Center (110 stories to the top), in three and a half hours. Willig was a professional mountain climber, and carefully planned that stunt for months. On the other hand, this whack job from Virginia didn’t know what he was doing, as he only climbed a fifth of the ascent (21 stories), which Willig climbed in the same amount of time, or 3.5 hours. Incidentally, Mayor Beame fined Willig $1.10, or one penny for each story, which he climbed.