No Challenge for Spiderman

Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano should have designed a slippier skyscraper. Piano's 52-story New York Times Building was no challenge for French stuntman Alain Robert, aka Spiderman. Robert, who has also scaled the Sydney Opera House in Australia and the Eiffel Tower in Paris, easily climbed the horizontal ceramic rods that envelope the New York Times Building. Then he was summarily arrested.

Hours later, a second man, Brooklynite Renaldo Clarke, also scrambled up the ladder-like rods, and he got arrested, too.

Silly me. I thought those rods were for climate control.

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