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Man found hanging off Sacramento high-rise was graffiti tagger (Darwin Award possible here)
KSBW.com ^ | 04/01/2013 | KSBW.com Staff

Posted on 04/02/2013 9:55:51 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway

A man who was found dead hanging by a rope off an 18-story Sacramento high-rise appears to have been a graffiti tagger, Sacramento police said Monday.

Fire Battalion Chief Marc Bentovoja said the man appears to have died accidentally of asphyxiation when he created a harness from the rope and lowered himself down the east side of the office building.

"From everything we can tell, he didn't have any special rope rappelling equipment on, climbing equipment or anything like that," he said. "He appeared to be looped into the rope."

A police department dispatch supervisor said Monday afternoon that investigators found a can of spray paint and a tool for etching glass on the part of a balcony where the ropes were anchored.


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KEYWORDS: graffiti; old
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Looks like this tagger's show was cancelled for good...
1 posted on 04/02/2013 9:55:51 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

The problem is that this ghetto tagger has probably already sired two or three or twelve baby-mama perpetrators.


2 posted on 04/02/2013 9:57:18 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

The only problem with this is that it occurs to rarely.


3 posted on 04/02/2013 9:58:42 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
Best not to tie the safety rope around your neck.

/johnny

4 posted on 04/02/2013 9:58:44 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Da Coyote

Oops, libtard moment.

That’s “too”, not “to”.

Of course, I could fire up my Obamaphone and type “two”.


5 posted on 04/02/2013 9:59:18 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Belly laugh of the day ty :DD


6 posted on 04/02/2013 9:59:41 AM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Graffitti VANDAL! Graffitti VANDAL!


7 posted on 04/02/2013 9:59:57 AM PDT by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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IF he had a son..........................


8 posted on 04/02/2013 10:00:34 AM PDT by rktman (BACKGROUND CHECKS? YOU FIRST MR. PRESIDENT!(not that we'd get the truth!))
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To: rktman

A teachable moment...no doubt!


9 posted on 04/02/2013 10:02:40 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Give me a million dollar gov. grant and I’ll put together a study to get to the bottom of this problem.


10 posted on 04/02/2013 10:03:54 AM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

These taggers have been called modern artists. Perhaps this was the ultimate performance art?


11 posted on 04/02/2013 10:09:02 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

He died doing what he loved: damaging other people’s property while the world stared and pointed at him.


12 posted on 04/02/2013 10:14:18 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The ballot box is a sham. Nothing will change until after the war.)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

2013 Darwin Award Candidate!


13 posted on 04/02/2013 10:15:03 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Probably read “Macrame with David Carradine”.


14 posted on 04/02/2013 10:15:59 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: ClearCase_guy

I say: Buy them all the rope they need!


15 posted on 04/02/2013 10:16:04 AM PDT by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
A rope manufacturer is about to face a huge lawsuit.
16 posted on 04/02/2013 10:25:08 AM PDT by Gamecock ("Ultimately, Jesus died to save us from the wrath of God." —R.C. Sproul)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Good riddance


17 posted on 04/02/2013 10:25:17 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: Gaffer
Formally named the 1201 K Tower, the building houses offices for lobbyists, public relations businesses and law firms that do business two blocks away at the Capitol.

The M.O. and target strongly suggest that the decedent was not black.

18 posted on 04/02/2013 10:27:31 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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One does not have to be black to be from a) a ghetto, or b) have one, three, five baby-mamas....

“Ghetto” is a state of mind and environment; color sometimes has something to do with it, but not always.


19 posted on 04/02/2013 10:34:08 AM PDT by Gaffer
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One does not have to be black to be from a) a ghetto, or b) have one, three, five baby-mamas....

“Ghetto” is a state of mind and environment; color sometimes has something to do with it, but not always.


20 posted on 04/02/2013 10:34:09 AM PDT by Gaffer
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