Man climbs KOKI tower, refuses to come down

[Weeters 1829]

Suprised no one's posted about this. Last Thursday a man climbed a tower outside of KOKI in Tulsa and is still up there as of this writing.

 

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/08/16/expert-decries-remarks-about-tulsa-tower-climber/

http://video.foxnews.com/v/1113241656001/bizarre-tv-tower-standoff-drags-on/?playlist_id=86856

[T.L. Hughes 763]

Actually, I posted this on the "Out & About" thread yesterday, but one thing interesting is that KWTV here in Oklahoma City, has been paying attention to this story a lot (the only one of the four news stations in the capital city to pay significant attention to it). They have even done double-boxing during the morning newscasts each day (and even today during The Doctors, the 4 p.m. newscast and the CBS Evening News), showing live (albeit on a 10-second delay) images from I assume, KOTV, of the man in question (William Sturdivant II) on the tower. The fact that he could stay up there for that long and a previous incident in which he actually walked 250 miles from Tulsa to Dallas suggests some weirdly strong stamina on that guy. Incidentally, KOKI (the only Tulsa station doing any frequent reports on the story, for seemingly obvious reasons) reported that he recently got out of prison for drug and burglary charges and has been separated from his son (Sturdivant also has another kid on the way), and his mother was recently diagnosed with cancer, so you gotta wonder the stress that is on him to do this.

[gameshowguy2000 1]

Well, they were finally able to get him down; he's now at a hospital. Good thing they didn't take him to jail yet; he may not even know right from wrong. (But then again, that's my gut)