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    Cliffhanger

Police Grab Man Climbing Trump Tower in New York City

New York Police officers attach a climbing rope and carabiner to a man who was attempting to scale Trump Tower, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2016, in New York. The
man spent more than 2 hours scaling the glass facade of Trump Tower, climbing as high as the 21st floor before police officers grabbed him and hauled him to
safety through an open window.

                                                                                                                                                                                                       (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

Associated Press              him to safety through an     and-mouse game with           the facade, repeatedly re-    arm and harness, and in a
NEW YORK (AP) — A man         open window. The climber,    would-be rescuers. Officers   positioning suction cups re-  flash yanked him from his
who wanted an “audi-          identified by police as a    smashed windows and           sembling a type commonly      dangling stirrups. He went
ence” with Donald Trump       20-year-old Virginia man,    broke through ventilation     used by window washers to     through the opening head
spent three hours scaling     wore a backpack and          ducts to block his progress.  remove big panes of glass.    first, his legs pointed sky-
the glass facade of Trump     used a harness and rope      Police also lowered them-     The chase ended dramati-      ward. “I reached out. I took
Tower on Wednesday us-        stirrups to fasten himself   selves toward him using a     cally just after 6:30 p.m.    hold of his hand and I said,
ing large suction cups,       to the side of the 58-story  window washer’s platform.     As a crowd gasped on the      ‘Sir, would you come with
climbing as high as the 21st  Manhattan skyscraper. For    The man kept his distance     street below, two officers    me,’” said detective Chris-
floor before police officers  a long time, the climber     by methodically working his   leaned far out of a window,   topher Williams, who made
grabbed him and hauled        played a slow-motion cat-    way back and forth across     grabbed the climber’s         the grab. q
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