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Virginia man hospitalized day after Trump Tower escapade
Associated Press WTOP News (Washington DC) ^ | August 11, 2016 3:16 pm | Associated Press Photo/Julie Jacobson EZRA KAPLAN

Posted on 08/11/2016 12:53:54 PM PDT by COBOL2Java


A man scales the all-glass facade of Trump Tower, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2016, in New York. A police spokeswoman says officers responded to Donald Trump's namesake skyscraper on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. The 58-story building is headquarters to the Republican presidential nominee's campaign. He also lives there.


NEW YORK (AP) — A man who said he was seeking “a private audience” with Donald Trump by climbing the Republican presidential candidate’s skyscraper was hospitalized on Thursday after his arrest a day earlier on charges of reckless endangerment and trespassing.

The New York Police Department identified the climber as 19-year-old Stephen Rogata, of Great Falls, Virginia. It was unclear when Rogata would appear in court or if he had an attorney who could comment for him.

Rogata made a spectacle of himself on Wednesday by spending three hours scaling the glass facade of the 68-story Trump Tower in Manhattan using large suction cups before officers hauled him to safety through an open window. He was taken to a hospital for an evaluation.

A day before the ascent, police said, the climber posted an online video addressing Trump. He called himself an “independent researcher seeking a private audience with you to discuss an important matter” and said he was willing to risk his life “to get your attention.”

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To: JudyinCanada

I said on a previous thread that he had the Clinton emails.


21 posted on 08/11/2016 1:19:39 PM PDT by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: JudyinCanada
I’m a little curious about the message he wanted to get to The Donald.

Buy more Ovaltine.
22 posted on 08/11/2016 1:20:50 PM PDT by Resettozero
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To: COBOL2Java

He needed a haircut. That might be what caused his failure: too much hair.


23 posted on 08/11/2016 1:21:00 PM PDT by HomerBohn (Liberals and Slinkys: Good for nothing but make you smile as you shove them down the stairs.)
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To: yoe
Watching the police ‘help’ him to come inside, I wondered if perhaps his male parts had been. ‘er a that was not exactly a gentle re-entry I mean it really looked like maybe he was being emasculated...more like being gelded rather than being pulled inside...those police really know how to neuter a situation.

I noticed that too - they had him grabbed by two guys, he was halfway over the railing already, he wasn't going anywhere. Then all of a sudden someone yanked him so hard they almost broke the railing with his body. Someone wanted him hurt, punished. I wonder if they then commenced to beating the crap out of him. If you look closely at the photo, those aren't climbing gloves the cops are wearing - they're weighted sap gloves. They came to do some pounding on the guy.

24 posted on 08/11/2016 1:22:45 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: NorthMountain

I’m not sure that suction cups on glass just short of 58 stories up is particularly safe. Are you?


25 posted on 08/11/2016 1:23:31 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: COBOL2Java

I still think the elevator was broken and he was too lazy and stoopid to climb the stairs.........


26 posted on 08/11/2016 1:24:45 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (If only Hillary had married OJ instead......)
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To: NorthMountain

At every point ten feet off the ground, he is in grave danger.

You can wish to claim otherwise, but officials have no duty to allow him to risk his life in this manner.

It’s private property and he had no right to do what he was doing. And if one of those windows came loose, who would have been sued?

Good riddance to bad rubbish.


27 posted on 08/11/2016 1:27:41 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (He wins & we do, our nation does, the world does. It's morning in America again. You are living it!)
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To: COBOL2Java

Just as the climber, Stephen Rogata, was grabbed by the police, I saw a move that would have to be a suicidal action. Even though Rogata had two straps hooked up to suction cups, he reached over to the edge of the building just as he was being lifted up to the window. If he had succeeded in working himself from the cops, his lifted up body would have dropped with the full weight going against the suction cups. I doubt that there was enough suction to hold his fall.

The cops would have suffered a lawsuit form Rogata’s family because of their failed attempt to pull him off the building.


28 posted on 08/11/2016 1:28:34 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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To: Talisker
Why hospitalized?

If you watch the video, the police were aggressive at pulling him through the window. He's lucky he didn't injure or lose some of his baby-making facilities.

Of course, he had only the police and the straps to the suction cups holding him up 21 stories, and the police had very little to hold onto themselves.

As they pulled him inside, they were using a lot of force. The guy was wearing shorts, so he his legs were exposed against the windowframe.

Hospitalization was probably cautionary.
29 posted on 08/11/2016 1:32:46 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: COBOL2Java

He is in a rubber room at Bellvue!


30 posted on 08/11/2016 1:33:00 PM PDT by DarthVader (Politicians govern out of self interest, Statesmen govern for a Vision greater than themselves)
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To: Paladin2

“Where can I buy some of those suction devices?”

Little know fact. They are using them on hillary to keep her from falling over.


31 posted on 08/11/2016 1:35:34 PM PDT by Leep (Cut the crap!)
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To: T-Bone Texan

I am seeing lots of bazaar human behavior in America. I think it is a mindset generated by the Self Esteem Movement. When a person’s self-image conflicts with reality, it creates emotions that people are not equipped to deal with.


32 posted on 08/11/2016 1:37:13 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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To: Leep

Big Foot.


33 posted on 08/11/2016 1:37:42 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: T-Bone Texan

34 posted on 08/11/2016 1:38:15 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: COBOL2Java

He could have taken the elevator......just sayin’


35 posted on 08/11/2016 1:52:43 PM PDT by RaginRak
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To: DoughtyOne

The press would have found a way to blame Trump if the guy had died.


36 posted on 08/11/2016 1:55:08 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: NorthMountain

I’ve used those exact suction cups to move glass. That’s what they are made for.

I’ve trusted my life to them on many occasions to lift glass, not to lift myself on glass.


37 posted on 08/11/2016 1:56:51 PM PDT by cyclotic
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To: jonrick46

Bazaar sounds Islamic and like they are selling something.


38 posted on 08/11/2016 2:00:10 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: cyclotic
I realize that my opinions on this topic are not well received here ...

I’ve trusted my life to them on many occasions to lift glass, not to lift myself on glass.

They seem to work pretty well either way ...

I'll stipulate that the guy is a nutter, and a trespasser, and deserved to be arrested.

OTOH, I have a lot more respect for him than I have for couch potatoes who spend all their time sitting on their fat asses in front of the boob-tube, swathed in bubble-wrap, and drooling over the kardassians.

39 posted on 08/11/2016 2:03:57 PM PDT by NorthMountain (Hillary Clinton: corrupt unreliable negligent traitor)
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To: NorthMountain

I agree completely.

Even though these guys are nuts, I admire them.

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” T. Roosevelt


40 posted on 08/11/2016 2:07:47 PM PDT by cyclotic
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