Man hurls lawn chairs off top of 20-story NYC building in bizarre caught-on-video tantrum – New York Post
A Florida man hurled lawn chairs and other items off a 20-story Midtown Manhattan highrise in a bizarre caught-on-camera tantrum – with the debris narrowly missing passersby on the street below.
Jean Olivier, 33 – whose last known address is in the city of West Park – is seen in a brief clip tossing the chairs from a landing one level down from the roof of 555 Fifth Ave., an office building near East 46th Street that houses a Barnes & Noble on the Ground Floor.
Olivier had apparently visited the Consulate General of Haiti inside the building, complaing about housing, then flipped out and threw a chair, law enforcement sources said.
He also threw several plank-like objects down onto the busy street below, which a passing motorcyclist narrowly avoided as he whizzed by, according to the footage.
Another video shows Olivier waving his arms around as onlookers inside a buidling across the street film the ordeal.
Vendor Modibo Cissoko said he witnessed the chair-flinging freakout, that lasted about a half hour.
“I saw a lot of looking, panicking and police come,” Cissoko told The Post Tuesday. “I wasn’t here when it started but that’s what I saw.”
Responding cops were able to find and cuff Olivier, police said.
Olivier was charged with burglary, reckless endangerment, criminal mischief and criminal trespass, cops said.
He has no prior arrests, police said.
The building was originally designed in 1955 by Emery Roth & Sons and redesigned in 1993 by world-renowned architect Der Scutt, who also designed Trump Tower.
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