What is it about New York City buildings, that attracts
people, men in particular, to want to try their hand at climbing up the side, until someone calls the police, and they march them out of the building in handcuffs? There seems to be more of them than usual this year, or is it my imagination? The latest one, said that he did it, to call attention to Al Queda. Why
would anyone want to call attention to Al Queda? I think they do a pretty darn good job, I'm sorry to say, of calling attention to themselves. The gentleman who climbed up another building, not too long ago, said he did it because he saw another man climbing up a tall building in New York City, and he went home grabbed his gear, and started to climb a building as well. He also got arrested. Now this is my real thought, where are the Home Land Security people?
Why is it, that three men, in the past two months or so, have scaled up a building, in the heart of New York City, and they go up and up, until the police go to the window and tell them to come in, so that they are then arrested. What is the story here? We have abundant searches at airports to the point of x-ray machines, that can see all the way through your clothes, isn't that a fun thing to have happen? We can't carry certain products, in certain quantities on the plane, for fear there are chemical components, being carried on, in order to put a bomb together on the plane. We have to take our shoes off, to see if the soles have ignitable substances inside, for bombs. Other measures are taken, to look out for the safety of the passengers, which is well and good. But when it comes to men scaling the walls of tall buildings, in one of our largest cities in the U. S., the climbers just scurry on up, until they are told to come on in now, Mr. Climber, you have been a bad boy. Now, I find this too strange, and more than a bit disconcerting. What if they have a dirty bomb in their little backpack, or some other highly explosive material, which could seriously damage the building they are scaling and hurt a lot of people, who are working in the building. It is usually an office building. I think that some kind of precaution should be taken to prevent such goings on. Jail time and a fine is not enough.
Whether it be little pointed things which are embedded in the walls of the buildings, which will stick the person all over until they decide, this isn't for me, (pardon me for being heartless), or they don't even try it, from jump street. This is getting to be too much of a habit, of people, climbing up buildings for attention. They stopped a lot of people, from stealing pine trees, to be used as Christmas trees, by spraying a foul smelling substance on the trees. Some sort of deterrant, should be devised to discourage men from
deciding, to make the buildings in New York City, their little Mt. Everest. It could be dangerous to the public, and it is also dangerous to those who decide to try it, whether they realize it or not. Get it together New York, or the least, that might happen, is that we are watching another crazy person climbing up, and his grip doesn't hold, or his foot slips and an awful disaster happens, causing a mother to lose a son, or a child to lose a father, or someone's brother lands up in a bad, bad place. Hope it doesn't happen, but the law of averages will no doubt prevail, it's sad to say. So listen up, New York City Government and Home Land Security, this is a tradegy just waiting to happen.