Friday, June 06, 2008

With great power comes great responsibility

That's the lesson that Uncle Ben (not the rice guy) gives Peter Parker in Spider-Man. Talk about deep.

I wonder if anyone ever passed this wisdom nugget to Alain Robert. Robert, known more popularly as Spiderman, scaled the New York Times building yesterday. When he got near the top, he opened up a banner that read, "Global warming kills more people than 9/11 every week."


A few hours later, Renaldo Clarke climbed the same building. He wasn't a complete copycat, though, since he didn't have a banner. Tenants inside the building said that Clarke stopped from time to time during his ascent, and he mouthed "What floor am i on?" to onlookers.

Neither of them were hurt, and both of them were arrested. Shocking.

-JT

2 comments:

i'm talking louder said...

He could have at least taken soap and a squeegee as he made his way up. Whatever happened to multitasking?
-10kp

i'm talking louder said...

What's funny is when you scroll through the pictures, Renaldo Clarke almost looks like he's laughing when he gets arrested. It's almost as if he knew he was a pathetic copy cat.
-SM