July 9, 2008
Third Man Climbs New York Times Building
Photograph of the third Times building climber (see the "T" in "The") by Evan Bindelglass/WCBS 880
So much for the security modifications outside: Over night, a third person managed a climb on the exterior of the New York Times Building on Eighth Avenue at 41st Street in Midtown Manhattan. The first reports of his presence were around 1:30 a.m., and the NY Times reports, "after staying on the building for about four hours, the man surrendered to police officers and was arrested around 5:20 a.m."
The climber is identified as David Malone (pictured). The Daily News says he contacted their paper and "acknowledged he was after the same free publicity the earlier pair [of climbers] received." Mr. Malone, consider it a done deal! From the Daily News:
He hung a banner over the first "T" of The New York Times sign that featured a picture of terror kingpin Osama Bin Laden holding President Bush like a puppet.The News goes onto to say that Malone calls himself a 29-year-old University of Michigan drop out (he dropped out "in 1995 to study Al Qaeda full-time").On it were the words "Bin Laden's Plan" - the title of his book and Web site.
He said he wanted to protest Al Qaeda's "crusader baiting," and that the terror group's "intentional provocation of the U.S." was the greatest threat to American national security.
Malone made it to the 11th floor, unlike professional climber Alain Robert who climbed the whole building first on June 5 and and Rey Clarke, who also scaled the whole height of the building hours after Robert. Apparently the cops cut a hole through a fifth floor window to try and catch Malone, but were unable to. The Times added, "The climbing episodes have at this point become something of an embarrassment for The Times." Or a resounding success to have the most climb-able building ever!
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over night, I tried to catach a rabbit but he narrowly escaped through a whole in the ground.
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I expect at least one person to climb the NY Times building each month now.
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LOL! nosidedown.
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He climbs 11 floors to advertise that terrorism is bad?
At this rate, the next guy will stand on his tippie-toes to protest acid reflux.
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He dropped out of the University of Michigan in 1995 (at the presumed age of of 16) six years before the 9/11 attacks, so he could study Al Qaeda full- time? That's one precocious dude! Maybe we should listen to whatever he's blathering on about.
The Times building facade is the new Internet. Everyone's on it with some opinion.
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I'll say it again: If you make the outside of your building a giant ladder, people are going to climb it.
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idiot
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Who's going to pay for replacing that window? Did the architect give a five year warranty on glass replacement?
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They shouldn't have made it so climbable.
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He climbed the Times' building and called the News?!
WTF man, what about a little reciprocity?
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"He climbs 11 floors to advertise that terrorism is bad? At this rate, the next guy will stand on his tippie-toes to protest acid reflux."
No. He climbed to advertise the book he wrote. He wasn't protesting anything, and there is no "terrorism is bad" message involved at all. Read the wrong story I guess.
"He climbed the Times' building and called the News?!"
Most likely he called all the papers.
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At least climb the building during the afternoon when there is more publicity to be made or getting yourself on the 5pm and 6pm news.
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I'm telling you, if the Times just put up some harnesses people would pay to climb. This could be the solution to the newspaper profit slump.
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[12] Do you really think the evening news won't cover him just because he climbed at night? I can pretty much guarantee all of the local newscasts will still cover him.
[13] I suggested that right after Alain Robert climbed it. You snooze, you lose. Although the Times should make it even better. Add some tubes running the full height of the building and you could have the world's longest firepoles. Now that would attract people left and right. A good, strenuous climb followed by an exhilarating slide to the ground.
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They will still cover him, but not LIVE like what happened last month with the other jumper. Most of the 6pm news they were showing him climbing the building LIVE.
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They wouldn't show him live anyway. Climbing the Times building is old hat now. Just another yawner.