High-rise protest at Miami hotel
Guests and staff watched in amazement and horror as a man tied a rope around his waist and dangled himself from a 20th floor balcony at a Florida hotel.
The man staged the stunt at the J W Marriott hotel in Miami to protest about discrimination against tourists, according to Ananova.
He fixed the rope around his waist and attached the other end to a window in one of the hotel rooms before climbing off the balcony. He had a sign that said: “Say no to tourism until Florida stops discrimination of tourists.”‘
He stayed hanging in the air for several hours but was eventually persuaded by the police to go back inside the room.
“No one knew what he wanted until he started to throw pieces of paper with a text complaining about the way tourists are treated in Miami, ” Ananova reported a police spokesman as saying.
The protester was reported to be from Chile, but has not been identified.
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