Posted on 07/22/2008 8:27:26 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
United States Capitol Police early Tuesday resolved a situation in the Hart Senate Office Building atrium area, where a man had been threatening for hours to plunge himself from the seventh floor.
The unidentified man turned himself over to Capitol Police at approximately 2:00 am, according to police sources familiar with the event.
For more than eight hours, the man had stood about 50 feet above the ground on the outside ledge of the glass wall overlooking the building’s atrium as negotiators continued to speak with him through a translator in Mandarin Chinese, according to Capitol Police. He had climbed across the railing at about 5:45 pm on Monday.
“The U.S. Capitol Police responded to this event, established communications with the individual, and after several hours of deliberate negotiations, convinced him to return to safety on the correct side of the railing,” Capitol Police spokeswoman Sergeant Kimberly Schneider said in an e-mail circulated after 3:00 am.
Authorities had positioned an inflatable jump pad underneath him, but it was unclear whether they actually inflated it.
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“Authorities had positioned an inflatable jump pad underneath him, but it was unclear whether they actually inflated it.”
LOL
Until they said it was a man I thought maybe Cynthia McKinney was up to her old tricks.
I wondered what happened to Daschle.
The radio said this morning that they had to bring in a translator who spoke Mandarin Chinese to deal with this guy.
Oops. Didn’t read this carefully enough.
You know, if somebody was speaking Mandarin Chinese to me for eight hours, I might consider jumping, too.
Why would that change your mind? :)
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