SEATTLE TREE MAN COMES DOWN

The unidentified man who climbed an 80-foot sequoia tree in Seattle for 24 hours came down Wednesday after a standoff with police that drew national attention. Despite hours of police coaxing, the man refused to leave his perch near the top of the tree in downtown Seattle. It is unclear why the man climbed the tree or his mental state, but he was taken away by authorities on a stretcher. The man, appeared disheveled with a large beard, longer hair and a red knit hat he dropped during the day, has also ripped multiple branches from the tree and tossed them at the ground and at negotiators, who caught many of them. A local TV station livestreamed video of the man online as he dozed, shouted and knocked around a stick. At one point, he threw an apple at medics. Police have said he appears to be suffering from a crisis and has been yelling intermittently. Seattle police say when authorities arrived at the base of the tree, which was located next to a Macy’s department store, the man refused to speak with them.
* Authorities plan to go up the tree today to remove the nest.
* He had two ways out of that tree, slow and fast. Glad he picked slow.
* Now he’s down from the tree, but he’s up a creek.
* I’m going to go out on a limb here and say he has mental problems.
* Of course, saying that’s not really being fair to drugs.
* Wow, some people took the end of grunge music really hard, didn’t they?
* The impressive thing is that you can have a tree this big downtown.