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Man in American flag cape scales library, descends to crowd of waiting police
Johnny Hart
Issue date: 9/18/08 Section: News
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The man, who wore an American flag cape and a novelty viking cap, declined comment as CSU police took him into custody around noon.
The man, who has not yet been identified, tried to flee on a bike stashed in the bushes then tried to juke several police officers on scene as students from classrooms and the plaza stood by.
Gaelle Burges, a soil and crop department employee was smoking a cigarette outside the main doors of the library when the scene took place.
She said that the man ran through the plaza and scaled the face of the library in less than 20 seconds.
Burges, junior open-option major Katie Rivera, and senior construction management major Tom Kirschenheuter all called the man the "Viking Spiderman."
Collin Czarnecki, a junior journalism major, witnessed the scene from his Eddy classroom. He said that the caped man rappelled with a rope off the back side of the library and tried to flee by bike from a motorcycle policeman, but had his cape caught in the spokes and failed to escape on foot.
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Leslie
posted 9/18/08 @ 1:01 PM MST
Good work Collegian! I heard rumors of this and had hoped you guys got there in time... Glad to come to the site and see a story about it (AND A PICTURE!). (Continued…)
David Gilbert
posted 9/18/08 @ 1:29 PM MST
Absolutely awesome. Support radical free expression on campus! And everywhere else, for that matter!
fitzy31
posted 9/18/08 @ 2:07 PM MST
Nothing like a little civil disobedience to rattle The Man!
Greg S
posted 9/18/08 @ 4:41 PM MST
I was sitting near where this happened and I didn't see the guy. He climbed the wall that fast. The banner really is a great thing to see around campus. (Continued…)
Like it or leave it
posted 9/18/08 @ 4:47 PM MST
If you don't like government go live in a cave - and quit turning this glorious into that glorified junior college (aka CU). Support the government - without them you would not have the right to free speech and where would all you radicals be then. (Continued…)
Kibbles
posted 9/18/08 @ 7:38 PM MST
The guy is in college and still hasn't figured out there are two letter N's in the word government?
Drew
posted 9/18/08 @ 8:21 PM MST
Seriously. How many illegitimate children does Flavor Flav have?
CK
posted 9/18/08 @ 8:31 PM MST
"No Capes!"
They tend to get stuck in things, too bad he didn't get away.
Nicole
posted 9/18/08 @ 11:04 PM MST
I love CSU. took pics and sent 'em to mom to show her how utterly rad this school really is
Frank Thomas
posted 9/19/08 @ 1:13 AM MST
This story just got Farked. (fark.com)
I love it. Wish we could bring some "cool" tags to CSU rather than "weird"
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