# Two protesters have climbed my building. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 23, 2006, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-protesters-have-climbed-my-building/377572 "2006-10-23T15:09:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-protesters-have-climbed-my-building/377572/1 "2006-10-23T15:09:39Z")
This morning around 8 I’m getting something to eat. As I come out of the building I notice a lot of people standing around. I was worried that we had a fire alarm and I didn’t have a jacket. Nope two men have climbed onto our building and unveiled a sign saying “Bush Let NOAA tell the truth.” I don’t think anyone knows how they got up there, it’s thirty or so feet up and no one saw them with a ladder or anything. So now we have a couple of police and security outside, but that’s about it. I think everyone in the building has seen them and gone back to work. Now the funny part. They are not along the street, and the only people who come where they are sitting are workers for the most part. Don’t they want people to know they are there? The best part though is they are on the wrong building. They want the NWS two buildings down, which oddly enough more people would see them because it’s right next to the Metro. ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-protesters-have-climbed-my-building/377572/2 "2006-10-23T15:57:31Z")
Now they’ve got the local SWAT team out there, and they’ve blocked off the front of the building. They’re also bringing in a crane to get them down. ---
**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:** [October 23, 2006, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-protesters-have-climbed-my-building/377572/3 "2006-10-23T16:05:16Z")
[QUOTE=Edward The Head] Now they’ve got the local SWAT team out there, and they’ve blocked off the front of the building. They’re also bringing in a crane to get them down. [/QUOTE] Well, then, its clearly time to [call out the bi-planes…](http://www.poster.net/king-kong/king-kong-photo-xl-king-kong-6210792.jpg)😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-protesters-have-climbed-my-building/377572/4 "2006-10-23T16:14:01Z")
[QUOTE=Count Blucher] Well, then, its clearly time to [call out the bi-planes…](http://www.poster.net/king-kong/king-kong-photo-xl-king-kong-6210792.jpg)😃 [/QUOTE] _Bi-Planes_ are a threat to _Airplane Family Values_! SHAME ON YOU! ---
**Author:** ![Eliphalet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eliphalet/32/9563_2.png) [@Eliphalet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eliphalet)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-protesters-have-climbed-my-building/377572/5 "2006-10-23T16:15:20Z")
SWAT teams? A little excessive for a couple of non-violent protesters, don’t you think? Eli ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-protesters-have-climbed-my-building/377572/6 "2006-10-23T16:20:36Z")
[QUOTE=Eliphalet] SWAT teams? A little excessive for a couple of non-violent protesters, don’t you think? Eli [/QUOTE] I’m not so sure about that. There were no firearms, at least not in sight. I’m guessing that the SWAT people are better able to handle situations like this. They’ve gotten the sign down, but I don’t know about the two men yet. They have the front of the building blocked off and I didn’t bother to walk over there.