Tower climbers arrested

[raccoonradio]

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TED PENDERGAST
RESCUE: #newton fire at 1165 chestnut st for 2 morons trying to climb this comms tower a couple hundred feet tall http://pic.twitter.com/xX9JhzWV

BOSTONRADIO WATCH A worker fell off the same tower back last October. He died on impact. http://articles.boston.com/2011-10-13/yourtown/30276423_1_american-tower-corp-accident-authorities @universalhub @firstduephotos

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RT @firstduephotos: newton fire at 1165 chestnut st for 2 morons trying to climb comms tower a couple hundred feet tall http://is.gd/J1vI45 ... universalhub

Newton tower climbers are on the ground and under arrest.

BOSTONRADIOWATCH This particular tower houses main transmitters for SportsHub 98.5 & Jamn 94.5 + backup txrs for 92.9,96.9,105.7,106.7, 107.9 @universalhub

[raccoonradio]

and what's it like to climb? yikes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A_h2AjJaMw

[Nick]

There are some people who won't climb towers for $500 an hour, but these morons will climb a tower for free! Why not have their sentence be that they have to climb a tower somewhere in the country to replace a lightbulb. For free.

[WBIMDJ]

and what's it like to climb? yikes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A_h2AjJaMw

Dear God that video is INSANE!!!!  Those guys have guts of titanium steel!!!

[raccoonradio]

they had parachute backpacks and a camera

http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2012/06/11/two-men-wearing-parachute-backpacks-arrested-after-allegedly-scaling-newton-communications-tower/0khNvcUxCFoaw3o7OMD6JO/story.html

[necrat123]

Glad they caught them. Bunch of morons.

I wonder if they realize the amount of RF coming from the top panel antenna system or the side mounted UHF antennas?

They'll probably be given a slap on the wrist and go back to illegally climbing a tower again.

[reelyreal]

The last time I remember an incident like this was November 2009 in Farmington, CT... Someone climbed the 1,340 foot WTIC-TV/WEDH/WCCT/WRCH tower around 5 am and parachuted from the top.  He was never caught.

Wreckless, dangerous, stupid.  That's a hell of a lot of RF as you're climbing that tower for well over an hour, cause you're obviously not using the elevator.

[raccoonradio]

from Herald:
>>BASE jumping — short for Buildings, Antennas, Spans and Earth — is the daredevil sport of parachuting off fixed positions such as towers, bridges and cliffs

charged with trespassing, disturbing the peace, and wanton destruction of property

http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20220612cops_deflate_parachuters_plans_for_tower_leap/srvc=news&position=also

[DanStrassberg]

Wreckless, dangerous, stupid.  That's a hell of a lot of RF as you're climbing that tower for well over an hour, cause you're obviously not using the elevator.

Reckless: yeah; wreckless: probably only because of the vigilance of the Newton Police.

[robotique]

and what's it like to climb? yikes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A_h2AjJaMw

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