# Tower guy

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tower-guy/592969>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 16, 2011, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tower-guy/592969 "2011-08-16T23:27:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tower-guy/592969/1 "2011-08-16T23:27:07Z")

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Anybody watching the tower guy in Tulsa? He’s been perched up that tower for 6 days now.

> **[Breaking News in Tulsa, Oklahoma](http://www.newson6.com/)**
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> If you want to live and be informed, reach out to News On 6, covering Tulsa and all of Oklahoma. We have the breaking news just waiting for your involvement.

> **[Man perches in Tulsa tower for 6th day; viewers riveted](https://www.latimes.com/archives/blogs/nation-now/story/2011-08-16/man-perches-in-tulsa-tower-for-6th-day-viewers-riveted)**
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> This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links.

First link is the live stream and the second is the news story.

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**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tower-guy/592969/2 "2011-08-16T23:44:19Z")

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And now he’s down.

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**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tower-guy/592969/3 "2011-08-17T00:20:11Z")

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> [@FloatyGimpy](#):
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> And now he’s down.

Yep, clicked the link just as they were bringing him down.

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**Author:** ![LorieSmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a587f6/32.png) [@LorieSmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LorieSmurf)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tower-guy/592969/4 "2011-08-17T02:03:09Z")

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He was big news here in Tulsa. The public opinion varied from “what an idiot, shoot him down with a tranq”, and “poor guy, pray for his mental health”. He finally came down on the cherry picker bucket after almost 5 1/2 days up there!

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**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tower-guy/592969/5 "2011-08-17T02:08:01Z")

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My heart really went out to the guy. He was obviously having some pretty serious mental health issues.