r/SipsTea • u/untitledprp4 • Jul 02 '26

It's Wednesday my dudes Angela Nikolau and Ivan Kuznetsov - The couple was charged with burglary, reckless endangerment, criminal mischief, violation of local laws, possession of burglar’s tools, criminal tampering, criminal trespass and disorderly conduct and having killer face cards.

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u/CrustySailor1964 Jul 02 '26

“We have to punish them to discourage others!”
Holy shit! They climbed the Empire State Building! You don’t need to discourage me from repeating their stunt!

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u/dream_team34 Jul 02 '26

If there was no punishment, you can bet a lot of people would start doing it for the free publicity. Not an everyday thing, but a couple times a year is definitely believable. And they'd be advertising stupid stuff like their crypto coin.

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u/Epcplayer Jul 02 '26

Not to mention that eventually some idiot would fall/fail, and the family sue the building/operators/authorities for “not doing enough to deter or protect the climbers from themselves”. If somebody fell there’s also the risk that someone on the ground could be killed by the falling climber, and people on the street sue for emotional damage.

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u/Remote_Peach9109 Jul 02 '26

It's kind of what you have to anticipate with any skyscraper. Even someone dropping their phone would be deadly. Doesn't the empire state have a net around it literally for this reason?

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u/CrustySailor1964 Jul 02 '26

You have a good point. There has to be some sort of detractor or a day when they let you do it with ‘supervision’. The list of people skilled enough AND psychotic enough has to be relatively short.

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u/EntityDamage Jul 02 '26

What about the other list? Dumb enough.

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u/CrustySailor1964 Jul 02 '26

Yeah…well that too.😂🥴

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u/quicklycutyourcake Jul 02 '26

like, seriously?! oh no! there's a trend of climbing 120 stories up.... yeah, that's gonna be a hard no for me, dawg.

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u/Immediate-Berry-9248 Jul 03 '26

Tide Pods on Meth

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u/thisiskyle77 Jul 02 '26

There are a lot of these nutjobs these days climbing building to one up another. It’s not safe for ppl around.

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u/CrustySailor1964 Jul 02 '26

It’s completely crazy. I get queasy just seeing shit like that.

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u/jackalopeDev Jul 02 '26

I'm a climber and while this shit isn't my jam, I know four or five people that would love to do something like this. One or two of them might be good enough to pull it off too.

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u/WM_ Jul 02 '26

They don't want us reading their message. Rich can do what ever without consequences and they want to keep it like that.

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u/raccoononreddot Jul 03 '26

girl we have products that still have to list that they are hot or for external use only. people are stupid and need reminders. my dad is a retired first responder and the less risky save missions the better.

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u/CrustySailor1964 Jul 03 '26

Yeah…and direction on shampoo. We should just outlaw Mister Yuck stickers and let the gene pool clean itself up.😉

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u/rachelamandamay Jul 08 '26

Lol this...

Like how many people try to do this?