Posted on 03/24/2015 1:52:13 PM PDT by BBell
Johnathan "Lloyd" Boover, the man living in a City Park tree out of protest over a proposed golf complex, fell from his perch Tuesday (March 24) and was taken away in an ambulance, witnesses said.
Boover fell from the tree shortly before 11 a.m., said Marilyn Eyer, a Gentilly resident who has followed Boover's tree sit-in since he started March 13. Boover was carried away on a stretcher into a waiting ambulance, witnesses said, which then left the area.
Witnesses say Boover may have broken his nose and injured his foot and knee in the fall. He had been running low on supplies, witnesses said, and was likely weak from hunger when he flipped out of his hammock perched midway up the tree. A police officer -- possibly an Orleans Parish Sheriff's deputy -- assigned to keep watch over Boover quickly rushed to his aid, witnesses said. The sheriff's office had obtained a warrant for his arrest on charges of disturbing the peace and criminal trespassing.
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HOLD MY BONG!!!!!!
That's par for the course.
he made like a leaf and fell...
“Why don’t you make like a tree, and get outta here.”
Tranq dart?
Nobody liked them in the 60s either.
“I said ‘Hi, Lloyd,’” Eyer recalled. “He waved and hit the ground.”
So, he was Polish?
There is no truth to the rumor that a mechanical tree shaker was seen on the golf course only yards away from the protestors’ lofty perch. Gravity has ruled, plain and simple.
How do tree sitters such as him go to the bathroom? If he never leaves the tree, how does he do everything? Bathroom, eating, sleeping, bathing? So many things we take for granted are very difficult if you go up a tree and never come down.
LOL!
LOL!
“Tranq dart?”
He probably would LIKE it. Tranquilizer darts are PCP - angel dust.
The PCP overwhelms the animal and they ‘freeze’ - note that they always have their eyes open and have normal to fast breathing.
If you use a sleep type of tranquilizer on a large mammal they are likely to suffocate.
Oh right .... 'cause they ain't REALLY so frikkin' idealistic.
The nut doesn’t fall far from the tree..
Witnesses say Boover ... had been running low on supplies brains ...
“How do tree sitters such as him go to the bathroom?”
Pretty sure it’s the same way squirrels go to the bathroom when they are up in a tree...
“If you use a sleep type of tranquilizer on a large mammal they are likely to suffocate.”
Yeah, they are really the option of last resort. The dosage has to be very exact, and even then, the antidote must be administered ASAP or the chance of death is very high. Anytime I see someone suggesting “Can’t the police use something less lethal, like tranquilizer darts”, I have to point out, they are NOT non-lethal.
Reminds me of the bum joke. Two bums walking down the street and one asks the other "did you crap in your pants because it sure smells like it?"
Other bum says, "No."
First one says, "Are you sure, because I smell crap and it seems to be coming from you."
Second bum "No I didn't."
First bum says, "You're lying." knocks the second bum down, pulls down his pants and there is the mother lode.
First bum says you lying son of a b----. You told me you didn't crap in your pants
First one says "I though you meant today."
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