A squirrelly man who refused to climb down from an 80-foot Sequoia tree in downtown Seattle is again on the bottom after a 24-hour standoff that was broadcast all over the world.
The unidentified bearded man — whose look social media customers have likened to the pickaxe explorer Yukon Cornelius of “Rudolph the Purple-Nosed Reindeer” — had been nestled within the towering tree since late Tuesday morning, police stated.
Earlier than shimmying down round midday Wednesday, he carried out one final acrobatic act by flipping the wrong way up and mooning cops.
The cheeky show was simply one among a number of surly gestures made to first responders all through their hours-long name for him to return down.
Christmas tree? Purple hat and beard? I'm fairly positive #ManInTree is definitely Yukon Cornelius. https://t.co/EtJ7HeHcYe pic.twitter.com/80uidWpKyV
— Lindsey Wasson (@lindseywasson) March 22, 2016
"Throughout early makes an attempt to contact the person, who seems to be affected by a disaster, he threw an apple, branches, pine cones and different gadgets at officers on the road under, and claimed to be armed with a knife," police stated in a launch Tuesday.
Police say the primary calls about him got here in round 11 a.m. Tuesday. Negotiators later spent hours atop of a fireplace division ladder making an attempt to coax him down.
Native information cameras confirmed him showing extraordinarily agitated Wednesday morning whereas calling to officers watching him from a close-by Macy constructing's home windows.
"It’s fairly a spectacle, truthfully," Seattle police spokesman Patrick Michaud advised the Seattle Occasions. "At this level, we need to be sure that he’s OK and that he can get down from the tree with out hurting himself or another person. We’re on his schedule — we’re not going to hurry it with somebody on the prime of a tall tree. Should you rush it, it might turn into harmful."
Why he climbed up there and why he refused to return down are questions that stay to be answered.
Since phrase of his standoff emerged, he's developed a swelling on-line fanbase, together with his followers utilizing the hashtag #ManInTree to report on his each transfer.
These strikes principally included him chucking items of the tree at individuals under, yelling obscenities and making impolite gestures together with his palms, in accordance with native reporters and video on the scene.
This story has been up to date to mirror the standoff's finish.
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