Jul 9, 2008 7:45 am US/Central
Another Person Scales New York Times Building
Incident Comes Just A Month After 2 People Climbed The Building In New York City
NEW YORK (CBS) ―
Police said another man scaled a portion of The New York Times' 52-story headquarters in Manhattan early Wednesday morning. He was brought down at around 5:20 a.m. and taken away in an ambulance.
The suspect managed to keep authorities at bay for four hours, reported CBS station WCBS-TV in New York.
Police said the man reached at least the 11th floor. They said he was spotted about 1:20 a.m. Wednesday.
The climber identified himself to The Daily News as David Malone, a 29-year-old Connecticut man who dropped out from the University of Michigan.
Malone told the paper he wanted to study al Qaeda.
The climber hung a white banner with two pictures, one of President Bush, the other of Osama bin Laden. It also had red peel-off stickers with references to the Islamic terror on them.
Police and fire department members set up an air mattress outside the building, and convinced Malone to climb down.
New York Times spokeswoman Catherine Mathis said modifications were made to the building and additional security was added after two climbers managed to scale the building June 5. Both made it to the top and were charged with reckless endangerment, criminal trespass and disorderly conduct.
The facade of the newly constructed building, which the Times moved into only last year, is covered with slats that allowed the men to climb the tower like a ladder.
Mathis said the company was investigating how the most recent climber was able to overcome the additional obstacles.
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