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Title: FRENCHMAN ARRESTED AFTER CLIMBING SEARS
TOWER: [ONLINE Edition]
Author: Meyerson, Charlie
Publication title: Chicago Tribune
Pages: 1
Number of pages: 0
Publication year: 1999
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FRENCHMAN ARRESTED AFTER CLIMBING SEARS TOWER:[ONLINE Edition]Meyerson, Charlie. Chicago Tribne [Chicago, Ill] 20 Aug 1999: 1.
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A French daredevil climbed to the top of the 110-story Sears Tower this morning -- the city's latest demonstration of a
controversial practice known as "buildering," the scaling of urban buildings.
A French daredevil climbed to the top of the 110-story Sears Tower this morning -- the city's latest demonstration of a
controversial practice known as "buildering," the scaling of urban buildings.
Alain Robert of Valence, France, was promptly arrested when he reached the top.
He was released around 11:30 a.m., charged with a couple of misdemeanors: criminal trespass and failure to use a safety
device or net while operating an aerial show.
Robert began his climb shortly before 6 a.m., creating a spectacle along South Wacker Drive as police blocked traffic and TV
helicopters hovered overhead. He made the climb armed apparently only with a talcum bag and a hook, working his way up a railor guide along the building's side.
To the applause of observers on the ground, he reached the top shortly after 7 a.m. -- and was greeted by cops who carted
him off, in handcuffs, to police headquarters.Chicago Police Department spokesman Pat Camden made clear that the department was in no hurry to free Robert to speak to
reporters. "We're not trying to make a celebrity out of this guy, even though he is," he said early in the morning. "We're
processing him just like any other guy who breaks the law."
Camden called attempts to climb buildings "very dangerous."
"It's irresponsible on the part of the individual that's doing it," he said.
Robert has a history of spectacular -- and illegal -- climbs, in Chicago and elsewhere. He was arrested in Chicago after making
it to the top of the Citibank Citicorp Center in July 1994. In October 1994, he was arrested after reaching the top of a 48-storybuilding in New York City. He was arrested in April 1998 after scaling the 75- foot Luxor Obelisk in Paris.
He's not the first to make it to the top of the Sears.
On Memorial Day in 1981, "Spider Dan" Goodwin, then 25, climbed the tower successfully and then was arrested by police. He
was fined $35 the next month, after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct.
Police arrested two men and a woman in 1985 before undertaking what police said was a plan to climb Sears Tower and then
parachute from the top. Charges against them were dismissed.(Copyright 1999 by the Chicago Tribune)
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Publication date: Aug 20, 1999
Year: 1999
Section: NEWS
Publisher: Tribune Publishing Company
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill.
Country of public ation: United States
ISSN: 10856706
Source type: Newspapers
Language of publicat ion: English
Document type: NEWSPAPERProQuest document ID: 418943735
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Copyright: (Copyright 1999 by the Chicago Tribune)
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