Poor homeless guy was probably just trying to get warm. /sarc
Posted on 12/08/2021 8:50:52 AM PST by Morgana
A MAN has been arrested after the Christmas tree at Fox Square in New York City was allegedly set on fire.
Firefighters were at the scene working to contain the blaze outside the Fox News building in midtown Manhattan shortly after midnight on Wednesday.
NYPD told The US Sun that a man was arrested after allegedly lighting the tree on fire.
The suspect has been identified as 49-year-old Craig Tamanaha, who is homeless, with a last known address in Brooklyn. A lighter was found in his possession.
Police said that Tamanaha climbed up the tree, lit papers that he brought with him on fire and shoved them into the tree. He then climbed down and watched as the 50 ft tree burned down.
According to local reports, Tamanaha has three prior arrests, two for drug possession and one for public intoxication.
Fox News security reportedly saw the man climbing the Christmas tree decorated outside the office building
(Excerpt) Read more at the-sun.com ...
Poor homeless guy was probably just trying to get warm. /sarc
Yep.. When a crime has been committed against one of the "Protected class" that's all the evidence they need..
What a POS looser....
Sadly, it is likely that is exactly what will happen to him.
Send him to Gracie Park mansion, where Mayor Kaiser Deblasio lives on the taxpayers’ dime, because that’s who decided to infest New York City with the mentally defective that belong in institutions.
i see you’ve been to NYC before...
“Craig Tamanaha, who is homeless”
But is he an illegal?
My sole visit to NYC was changing planes at the JFK Airport in January 1968. I did drive past it a couple of times driving from Washington, DC to visit wife’s relatives in Suffern, NY.
Being a historian and political junky probably helped with my evaluation of the tree burning.
May I call you “Karen” since you don’t like “Shirley”? ;)
Just don’t call me Brandon.
Well, it was “mostly peaceful” arson.
No mystery how to run a secure psychiatric facility. I believe every state has at least one.The problem is cost. They are labor intensive, and if you are depriving someone of his liberty on grounds of mental illness, you are obliged to provide treatment. And if that treatment is successful you are obliged to release the person to the community. The days of indefinite custodial care for the mentally ill are long gone. That’s why even John Hinckley was ultimately released.
Burn HIM.....
close enough...
If only he’d followed his cultural tradition of the Kamikaze.
I kid. It was still only a tree.
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