3fLiEr 0 #1 January 9, 2002 http://www.nbc4la.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagename=FutureTense/Apps/Xcelerate/View&c=NBCArticle&cid=NBC9OQ7M7WC&p=NBCG5JZRB8C&live=trueFor story and Video............Parachuter jumps into the arms of the law LOS ANGELES, January 8 - A Huntington Beach man who parachuted from the top of a 37-story building on Wilshire Boulevard today landed on a police car. Robert Tompkins, 29, was booked for "trespassing" in the building at 1100 Wilshire Blvd., said Los Angeles Police Department Officer Grace Brady. No one was hurt. Police went to the location about 2 a.m. after an alarm indicated someone was on the roof, said LAPD Lt. Jose Perez of the Rampart Division. A helicopter and a radio car were dispatched and police saw two people on the roof. The second person was not found. About four other parachuters jumped from the building in the last year, police said.bsbd"In a world where we are slaves to gravity I am pleased to be a freedom fighter" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wildblue 7 #2 January 9, 2002 that's funny!Here's another storyJumping Into TroubleL O S A N G E L E S — Next time, look before you leap onto a police squad car.Robert Tompkins had no trouble parachuting off a downtown Los Angeles office tower, police say, but he landed squarely on the black-and-white patrol vehicle driven by the officers investigating an alarm in the buildings. "He broke a front light," said Officer Guillermo Campos, a spokesman for the department, referring to the damaged car. Tompkins, 29, was apparently uninjured. Police were called to the 36-story, 496-foot-tall building around 2 a.m. on Tuesday."We had been called by security at the building saying we have an alarm going off," Campos said. Police said they believed Tompkins was simply a thrill-seeker who had broken into the building. After they removed him from the top of their car, the officers arrested him and charged him with trespassing. Tompkins' choice of locations may have been doomed from the start. The building houses offices for numerous government agencies, including the FBI. I ain't happy, I'm feeling gladI got sunshine, in a bag Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflir29 0 #3 January 9, 2002 "The building houses offices for numerous government agencies, including the FBI."Probably why they chose it........ "I got some beers....Let's Drink em!!!"Clay Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
