Half-Naked Couple Cause Stir Up a Tree
NEW YORK
(Reuters) - Two gay lovers took off most of
their clothes, climbed up a tree in New York's Central Park and spent
four hours engaging in sex acts and yelling abuse at police and
firefighters.
Police said
officers talked the men out of the three story high tree on
Thursday night after the parks department had sent two cherry-pickers
and firefighters had deployed an inflatable rescue mattress.
The couple,
described by officials as a 32-year-old transsexual with female breasts
wearing a purple thong and a 17-year-old boy in white boxer shorts, were
admitted to the hospital for psychiatric evaluation.
At one
point during the standoff in the larch tree -- an evergreen with
pine-like needles -- the 32-year-old rejected a police officer's offer
of a can of soda.
"This
is a Coke. I wanted vanilla Diet Pepsi," he was quoted as saying in
newspaper reports.
On Friday,
police charged William Rund, 32, and Christopher Montero, 17, both of
New York, with reckless endangerment, resisting arrest, criminal
mischief, public lewdness and disorderly conduct.
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