After 24 hours, 'Tree Man' comes down
The bearded, ranting man who scaled a tree downtown and forced streets to close on Tuesday and Wednesday, came down after 24 hours in the upper branches of the 80-foot sequoia
Just before noon he was sitting on the ground, eating a pear.
Then police gathered around him and put him on a gurney. He was then driven away in an ambulance.
Police said the man, 28, will not face criminal charges but that authorities are seeing whether he needs medical help.
More than 40 spectators crowded the sidewalk along Fourth Avenue on Wednesday morning, watching to see if the man in the tree would do anything.
At one point, some men who said they knew him and skateboard with him started yelling back and forth with the man, who they called Cody.
One spectator was worried the man would fall.
"The way he's sitting, that branch is going to break and he's going to be kissing pavement," said Andre Rosemond, who was waiting to go home. "It's really a no-win situation."
One man on the street said three kids scared the man and chased him up the tree.
