DEVELOPING: MAN SCALES SIX 12+ FLOORS OF TRUMP TOWER USING SUCTION CUPS.
Live video at link.
Say, is he the guy who does the cupping on Michael Phelps?
UPDATE: [Live Video] There’s a Guy Climbing Trump Tower Right Now:
The bearded, 20-something climber – dressed in high-end mountain climbing gear – started his ascent around 2:45 pm and by 5 pm had reached what appeared to be the 12th floor, a witness said.
Cops climbed through the building’s air conditioning vents to reach him, but he suctioned his way away from him.
At one point, a cop broke a window two floors over him and stuck his head out to talk to him.
“He keeps going,” said Gerald Iorio, who works across the street from the Fifth Avenue building, told The Post. “The cops can’t get him.”
Like I said, “Developing.”
MORE: “The climber apparently wants an audience with Trump. The Donald ought to appreciate the showmanship involved in this stunt,” Paula Bolyard writes at PJM linking to a tweet from Mike Valerio of NBC’s Richmond affiliate, who writes, “#TrumpClimber tells NYPD his name is Steve from Virginia, and he wants #Trump to see him.”
UPDATE (6:12 PM EDT): The police have removed two windows a few stories above the climber’s current position in an attempt to stop his progress. Stay tuned!
UPDATE (6:38 PM EDT): Police have pulled him into the building, with Steve appearing to offer a bit of resistance. I await the movie of his stunt in a decade or three.
UPDATE (6:43 PM EDT): At Hot Air, video of what appears to be the pro-Trump climber’s message to The Donald. As Allahpundit writes, “The second clip, posted yesterday, speaks for itself. Sure looks like the same guy in the still photo for the livestream clip. He says he has something very important to talk to Trump about. I’d pay cash money to watch a livestream of that.” Or as one Allah’s commenters writes, “That video of him with his message to Trump: not creepy at all.”
Allahpundit adds, “Now we wait to find out why he did it and whether Trump will agree to hear him out. I can almost hear the words: ‘I like your moxie, kid. Whaddaya got for me?'”
UPDATE (7:01 PM EDT): “It’s a metaphor for whole election: ‘Man rises to ridiculous heights during crazy PR stunt. Authorities unable to stop him.'”