# A stuntman is climbing Trump Tower **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 10, 2016, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-stuntman-is-climbing-trump-tower/762394 "2016-08-10T21:50:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2016, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-stuntman-is-climbing-trump-tower/762394/1 "2016-08-10T21:50:41Z")
Authorities have identified him only as “Steve” and are checking You Tube and social media for additional evidence. He’s using suction cups, and has a backpack which MHO is what has them most concerned. FWIW, a big air mattress has been inflated at the base of the building. > **[Man Who Wanted To Meet Donald Trump Climbs Trump Tower For 3 Hours Before...](https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/trump-tower-climber/)** > > Police wrestled a man through a Trump Tower window over 20 stories above a feet after he was climbing for over two hours. Not the first time this has happened; in the 1970s, someone climbed one of the WTC towers with a tool he made himself and slipped into the window-washer track. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2016, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-stuntman-is-climbing-trump-tower/762394/2 "2016-08-10T21:53:05Z")
At the rate he’s going, I’ll tune in Friday to watch him reach the top. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2016, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-stuntman-is-climbing-trump-tower/762394/3 "2016-08-10T22:02:44Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > At the rate he’s going, I’ll tune in Friday to watch him reach the top. 😃 so, there will have to be …um…rest stops? ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2016, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-stuntman-is-climbing-trump-tower/762394/4 "2016-08-10T22:10:08Z")
> [@JackieLikesVariety](#): > > so, there will have to be …um…rest stops? Trickle-down economics; nothing new at that building. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2016, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-stuntman-is-climbing-trump-tower/762394/5 "2016-08-10T22:24:32Z")
Most boring live coverage ever. He seems to be moving laterally, not vertically. Wonder where he’s planning to go? ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2016, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-stuntman-is-climbing-trump-tower/762394/6 "2016-08-10T22:36:07Z")
And… they got him. ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2016, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-stuntman-is-climbing-trump-tower/762394/7 "2016-08-10T22:37:31Z")
> [@standingwave](#): > > And… they got him. Ha. I logged in to the live stream just in time to see his butt yanked in the window. Why was he even trying to go that close to the police? ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2016, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-stuntman-is-climbing-trump-tower/762394/8 "2016-08-10T22:37:44Z")
“I think he’s probably a nutjob trying to head to the top,” says a bystander. I think so, too. ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2016, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-stuntman-is-climbing-trump-tower/762394/9 "2016-08-10T22:39:33Z")
> [@Folly](#): > > Ha. I logged in to the live stream just in time to see his butt yanked in the window. Why was he even trying to go that close to the police? He was out of routes. He had tried to go around that window on the right but the cops removed the window on that side as well. He couldn’t go left (around the corner) because there were cops in a window washer platform over there. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2016, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-stuntman-is-climbing-trump-tower/762394/10 "2016-08-10T22:40:25Z")
> [@standingwave](#): > > He was out of routes. He had tried to go around that window on the right but the cops removed the window on that side as well. He couldn’t go left (around the corner) because there were cops in a window washer platform over there. Clowns to the left of me Jokers to the right Here I am, stuck to the Tower again… ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2016, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-stuntman-is-climbing-trump-tower/762394/11 "2016-08-10T22:43:33Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > “I think he’s probably a nutjob trying to head to the top,” says a bystander. > > I think so, too. Your unedited version was more entertaining… ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-stuntman-is-climbing-trump-tower/762394/12 "2016-08-11T01:44:29Z")
I kept hoping to see the Donald leaning out an open window with a broom trying to push the guy off and yelling “Get off MY building you bum…you’re getting the windows all dirty!” That or leaning out a window while chowing down on a taco bowl to see what’s going on. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-stuntman-is-climbing-trump-tower/762394/13 "2016-08-11T03:05:38Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > “I think he’s probably a nutjob trying to head to the top,” says a bystander. > > I think so, too. So why isn’t Donald using the elevator? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-stuntman-is-climbing-trump-tower/762394/14 "2016-08-11T03:35:27Z")
> [@AP](#): > > As a crowd gasped on the street below, two officers leaned far out of a window, grabbed the climber’s arm and harness, and in a flash yanked him from his dangling stirrups. He went through the opening head first, his legs pointed skyward. > > “I reached out. I took hold of his hand and I said, ‘Sir, would you come with me,’” said detective Christopher Williams, who made the grab. How polite of the detective. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-stuntman-is-climbing-trump-tower/762394/15 "2016-08-11T03:37:26Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > So why isn’t Donald using the elevator? 😕 His ego wouldn’t fit.