While he was up there, the guy cut a bunch of cables.Around four o'clock this afternoon, KMTV tweeted something to the effect that a guy was on top the water tower in Papillion.
It sounded intriguing, so, an hour later, the girls (Julia, Olivia and Veronica) and I turned on the local TV news to see what was going on. Sure enough, there was a guy up on the water tower. So, after picking up Emily and Lauren, we decided to swing by and see the commotion. But when we rolled up on the Papillion water tower at 84th & Highway 370, there was nothing going on. Who knew Papillion had two water towers?
The one this guy was "leaning" on was near 6th & Washington in the downtown area. We drove by, saw a bunch of streets blocked off by police and the guy walking around on the catwalk. We decided to eat at the local Runza, then did one more drive-by (it was dark now) and saw him up there still cavorting around. One of the girls asked if he was getting cold. All of us wondered what he was doing up there.
When we got back to the apartment, we tuned in to a live internet feed of the event, which explained he had climbed down at one point and asked for a U.S. flag. But when police wouldn't give him one, he went back up. The girls also asked me if police would go up and get him if he didn't come down. And more than one wanted to know what he would do if he needed to use the bathroom.
About four minutes after we got home, the TV stations broke in to say the guy had voluntarily climbed down. Apparently, no one knows why he decided to climb the water tower because he doesn't speak English.
He spent a good portion of his time yelling at police, too.
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