Man climbs down from 90-foot high crane after 14 hours, taken away by police

[KamaAina]

http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_28359715/san-jose-man-climbs-top-construction-crane-near

Through the night, as his flashlight sputtered out, a homeless man who had scaled a nine-story crane above a new downtown housing development hunkered down in the glass paneled basket and shouted to the police below: "I'm homeless. I haven't been fed. I'm cold."

It wasn't only police who gathered near the base of the building across from City Hall for what would be a 14-hour waiting game as Sunday night stretched into Monday morning. Neighbors assembled, including one who set up a chair to "bear witness" overnight, along with a pastor from a nearby church, and homeless people who stopped to commiserate about their daily struggle on the streets.

"I don't blame him," said Carmel Juarez, 44, who sleeps in a homeless encampment along the Guadalupe River. Looking up from the corner of Santa Clara and 6th streets to the man on the crane, she said, "Someone needs to do something. No one's listening to us."...

"To some degree, him being up there represents what others are going through," said Shawnn Cartwright, 45, a neighbor who heard Skandar's cries Sunday night and camped out on the street to make sure he was well-treated and came down OK. "If you think about it, he's symbolic of what's wrong with San Jose."

Gee, I love living in the midst of all this wealth!

[valerief]

1. I hear the U.S. Congress is talking about changing our name to New Somalia.

Cuz freedumb.