‘Spiderman’ Alain Robert Makes Political Statement, Scales New York Times Building–Newly Updated

Alain Robert, or ‘Spiderman’ as he has come to be known in the Press, has allegedly just scaled the New York Times Building in New York City. Robert, a french stuntman, has gained world-wide notoriety for his outlandish stunts of scaling some of the world’s tallest buildings.

I have covered a few of his past exploits, but this is the first time, that I am aware of, that Alain Robert has actually made a huge political statement in the process. He scaled the 52 story Times building using no ropes or harnesses, as is his custom, and was shortly arrested after reaching the top.

Alain Robert ended up carrying a banner to the top with him. The banner read “Global Warming Kills More People Than 9/11 Every Week.” Kind of a gutsy statement to make in downtown New York City. Also, with the New York Times being one of the world’s highest circulated newspapers, you can begin to see why this is such a big deal. Can anybody predict the front page?

At this time, I don’t have any more details to provide. I do know that the area was taped off by police and the sidewalks were cleared in case he would fall, but this is also pretty customary when it comes to his building climbing attempts.

Alain Robert has scaled some of the tallest buildings in the world, including the Eiffel Tower, the National Bank of Abu Dhabi, and the Sydney Opera House. He was taken in to custody at 12:22 this afternoon, eastern time. When I hear more, I will update.

By the way, of course the New York Times would have a decent VIDEO of the incident–Go check it out! While your at it, you might as well stop by Alain Robert’s own website, which has a bit more info on the cause he is trying to draw attention to.

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