{"id":2388,"date":"2010-04-15T08:13:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T15:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/04\/event-horizon-statues-confound-cops\/"},"modified":"2010-04-15T08:17:04","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T15:17:04","slug":"event-horizon-statues-confound-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/15\/event-horizon-statues-confound-cops\/","title":{"rendered":"Event Horizon Statues Confound Cops"},"content":{"rendered":"

from NBC New York<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Cops Rush to Aid Empire State “Jumper,” Turns Out He’s a Statue<\/h1>\n

NYers trained to “say something” if they “see something” — just not in this case \u00a0By\u00a0JENNIFER MILLMAN<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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They warned us this would happen.<\/p>\n

Police raced to the Empire State Building yesterday after a frightened 911 caller saw what appeared to be a person poised on the ledge, preparing to jump, according to a published report.<\/p>\n

Once they arrived, they realized the possible jumper was only a statue \u2013 one of the cast-iron life-size figures modeled in the form of an artist whose “Event Horizon” exhibit has sparked a flurry of 911 calls from passersby who mistake the statues, many of which are posed on precarious ledges and roofs around Manhattan, for possible suicide risks.<\/p>\n

The presence of the statues dumbfounds some workers and tourists, particularly at the Empire State Building, from which half a dozen people have plunged to their deaths over the last 10 years. Just last month, a Yale grad student became the latest to leap to his demise from the observation deck.<\/p>\n

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from NBC New York Cops Rush to Aid Empire State “Jumper,” Turns Out He’s a Statue NYers trained to “say something” if they “see something” — just not in this case \u00a0By\u00a0JENNIFER MILLMAN\u00a0 They warned us this would happen. Police raced to the Empire State Building yesterday after a frightened 911 caller saw what appeared […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}