Posted on 12/14/2004 9:11:16 PM PST by rapture-me
Paula Zahn Gripe Leads to Arrest December 14, 2004 10:54 PM EST
NEW YORK - An advocate for two red-tailed hawks evicted last week from their nest at a luxury Manhattan apartment building was arrested Tuesday and charged with harassing CNN anchor Paula Zahn, who lives in the building, and her family, law enforcement sources said.
Lincoln Karim, 43, was arrested by plainclothes detectives as he prepared to lead a demonstration outside Zahn's Fifth Avenue building across from Central Park.
Karim, a video engineer for Associated Press Television News who was on vacation Tuesday, was charged with multiple counts of aggravated harassment and one count of endangering the welfare of a child, said Paul Browne, spokesman for the police department.
Browne did not identify the complainant, but three law enforcement sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, identified her as Zahn.
Karim, who was expected to be arraigned by Wednesday morning, was charged with harassing Zahn, her husband, Richard Cohen, or their two sons, ages 7 and 11, in four incidents outside the building, the sources said. Cohen is president of the co-op building's board. Like many apartment buildings in New York City, the building is run by a cooperative and a board of directors.
CNN did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
Karim was being represented by a lawyer arranged for him by actress Mary Tyler Moore, another resident of the building and a fellow advocate for the hawks.
Laurie Morris, deputy director of corporate communications for The Associated Press, said: "We take this matter seriously, and we're trying to learn more."
The arrest came shortly before the building's co-op board and The Audubon Society announced an agreement to restore the pigeon spikes that had held the nest of Pale Male and his mate, Lola, in place until a week ago.
The nest was removed from its 12th-floor perch after an engineer said it was causing the building's facade to crumble, and that debris and the occasional squirrel, pigeon or rat carcass flung out of the nest after feeding posed a risk to pedestrians.
"All parties were pleased by the outcome," Cohen said of the agreement in a statement given to reporters Tuesday.
E.J. McAdams, executive director of NYC Audubon, said architects hired by the co-op board have developed new nesting area designs that could return the birds to their tony home by the end of the week.
Besides the spikes, the new design will feature a guardrail around the 12th-floor window cornice to address safety concerns.
While there was no guarantee what Pale Male and Lola would do, McAdams predicted that they would build a new nest on the same spot.
The two red-tailed hawks, who have been the subject of a book and at least two television documentaries, have remained nearby in Central Park since their nest was destroyed.
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Associated Press writer Tom Hays contributed to this report.
Gonna be pretty frosty in the building. < /snicker>
Evidently even the News needs a little time off every now and then.
What does Zahn have to do with the Hawks nest being removed ?
This story leaves out too many details. But again, its an AP article, so it figures.
And if a piece of bldg debris falls due to these birds and hits one of these whack jobs(pun intended)they'll be the 1st to sue.
Her husband heads up the condo board that is trying to get rid of the nest.
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:Nbg57qJED8UJ:palemale.com/+Lincoln+Karim&hl=en
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:H530C7jGFZ0J:ap.emeraldcoast.com/stories/national/9_ds_208424.php+Lincoln+Karim&hl=en
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:gShHEizQQqQJ:seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2001949008_hawks06.html+Lincoln+Karim&hl=en
Um, anybody in particular who you'd like to single out?
I heard on "Quirks and Quarks" a few months back that pigeons are "rock doves", and are cliff dwellers.
So, "if you build it, they will come". And if pigeons come, the raptors invariably follow.
Why would anyone sane, be against natural pest control of "rats with wings"?
Yeah, these eco-enviro crazies rant and rave for a couple of hawks ( who can fend for themseleves just fine ) and there are homeless people all around them who could really use some help. Some people have really odd priorities.
Enviromentalist liberals versus rich, elitish, limousine liberals. Lots of fun.
They are limosine envirowingnuts!
Okay, here we go, Greta Van Opera will work on this for another two freakin years. I hope that people get off this soap opera waste of mental bandwidth. It really is childish.
It never ends with these people.
Last week I heard that an ant overdosed on a black beauty left by an ex-GI in Vietnam in 1971. There was an ant uprising, and they were petitioning the UN to stop drugging ants. /sarcasm. Sheesh
How many people on this planet have the mental capacity of a dull knife?
On my side of the fence. The Ka-Bar is sharp, the Glock, Sig, Ruger, Winchester, Marlin, and the olf Scott are primed, ready and loaded with 6,000 rounds ready to go. Then again I also go to Cowboy Action shooting events to keep the relexes up. On off days, to the range and work on other "bad guys." Sillouettes with OBL and Saddam Hussein and other noted terrorists including two individuals who were residents in the White House. Give you a hint... (for all the DUmmies who do not know the alphabet) both their name begin with the letter "C".
It's the difference between the power of Josef Stalin and the power of the night manager at McDonald's.
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