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| Man scales 80ft tree in downtown Seattle and refuses to come back down | |
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| A man is refusing to leave his perch near the top of an 80ft (24-meter) tree in downtown Seattle, despite hours of coaxing. | |
| Authorities were alerted to the unidentified man on Tuesday morning, and he was still clinging to its branches more than 20 hours later. | |
| “Issue appears to be between the man and the tree,” Seattle police tweeted. | “Issue appears to be between the man and the tree,” Seattle police tweeted. |
| “It is quite a spectacle, honestly,” police spokesman Patrick Michaud told the Seattle Times. | “It is quite a spectacle, honestly,” police spokesman Patrick Michaud told the Seattle Times. |
| Michaud said police want to make sure the man can get down without hurting himself or someone else and added that rushing it could create a dangerous situation. Police have said he appears to be suffering from a crisis and has been yelling intermittently. | Michaud said police want to make sure the man can get down without hurting himself or someone else and added that rushing it could create a dangerous situation. Police have said he appears to be suffering from a crisis and has been yelling intermittently. |
| Traffic impacts continue arnd 4/Stewart as negotiators work to talk man down from tree w/assistance of @SeattleFire pic.twitter.com/jaduW6Akfi | Traffic impacts continue arnd 4/Stewart as negotiators work to talk man down from tree w/assistance of @SeattleFire pic.twitter.com/jaduW6Akfi |
| Seattle police say when authorities arrived at the base of the tree, the man refused to speak with them and threw an apple at medics. He also threw “branches, pine cones and other items at officers on the street below, and claimed to be armed with a knife”, police said in a statement on their website. | Seattle police say when authorities arrived at the base of the tree, the man refused to speak with them and threw an apple at medics. He also threw “branches, pine cones and other items at officers on the street below, and claimed to be armed with a knife”, police said in a statement on their website. |
| The man has ripped multiple branches from the tree and tossed them at the ground and at negotiators. | The man has ripped multiple branches from the tree and tossed them at the ground and at negotiators. |
| In a statement on their website, Seattle police said the man “refused to speak with officers”, but that they had brought a fire truck ladder to the scene “to make face-to-face contact with the man as he straddled branches at the top of the tree”. | In a statement on their website, Seattle police said the man “refused to speak with officers”, but that they had brought a fire truck ladder to the scene “to make face-to-face contact with the man as he straddled branches at the top of the tree”. |
| #ManInTree: Man climbs, refuses to come down from 80-foot sequoia in Seattle https://t.co/I0EXVE9VbV pic.twitter.com/qjDEhT90A1 | #ManInTree: Man climbs, refuses to come down from 80-foot sequoia in Seattle https://t.co/I0EXVE9VbV pic.twitter.com/qjDEhT90A1 |
| Hundreds of people paused on their way to work to check out the man refusing to leave his perch. Many pulled out their phones to take a photo of his silhouette against the gray, drizzling sky and marveled that he was still there nearly a full day after climbing up. | Hundreds of people paused on their way to work to check out the man refusing to leave his perch. Many pulled out their phones to take a photo of his silhouette against the gray, drizzling sky and marveled that he was still there nearly a full day after climbing up. |
| The man spent much of the morning reclining quietly in the upper branches, but he resumed gesticulating wildly and shouting when two police officers tried to talk to him from sixth-floor windows of the Macy’s department store building next door. | The man spent much of the morning reclining quietly in the upper branches, but he resumed gesticulating wildly and shouting when two police officers tried to talk to him from sixth-floor windows of the Macy’s department store building next door. |
| Local chef Michelle Matsko gazed up at the man from underneath her red umbrella and wondered if he was trying to make a statement. She called his endurance impressive. Another woman, Janice Wilson, repeatedly yelled to him: “We love you! Come down safely!” | Local chef Michelle Matsko gazed up at the man from underneath her red umbrella and wondered if he was trying to make a statement. She called his endurance impressive. Another woman, Janice Wilson, repeatedly yelled to him: “We love you! Come down safely!” |