{"id":43228,"date":"2015-11-09T07:13:40","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T12:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raleighpublicrecord.org\/?p=43228"},"modified":"2015-11-09T07:35:13","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T12:35:13","slug":"raleighite-rescued-from-downtown-rooftop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/news\/2015\/11\/09\/raleighite-rescued-from-downtown-rooftop\/","title":{"rendered":"Raleighite Rescued From Downtown Rooftop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Less than a week after restrictions were lifted on late-night sidewalk use\u00a0for downtown Raleigh bars and restaurants, one man this weekend seemed intent on reinforcing the “DrunkTown” stereotype at the heart of the sidewalk-drinking controversy.<\/p>\n

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At approximately 10:11 a.m. on Sunday, the Raleigh Police Department received a call for service on West Davie Street following reports of a man who was stuck\u00a0on either the rooftop or a windowsill ledge of a downtown building.<\/p>\n

By 10:30 a.m., the portion of West Davie between Fayetteville and Salisbury was blocked off by a handful of\u00a0police cars and a ladder truck from the Raleigh Fire Department. Several bystanders had gathered to watch as a fireman helped escort a man, who appeared to have been sitting just outside a second-story window of the Sir Walter apartment building, down the ladder.<\/p>\n

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An officer on the scene told this reporter that “we’ve got everything under control,” but did not elaborate further.<\/p>\n

Jim Sughrue, the director of Public Affairs for the Raleigh Police Department,\u00a0confirmed with\u00a0the Record that “our call location was recorded as 319 Fayetteville St. at 10:11 a.m.<\/span><\/span>, although I\u2019m not sure exactly where it occurred \u2014 Hudson Condos, Capital Bank, ‘between Salisbury and Fayetteville above bail bonds office’ and 15 W. Davie St. are all mentioned.”<\/p>\n

Sughrue went on to explain that the call had come in because:<\/p>\n

“A male reported that he had been drinking the night before and awoke on the roof of a building without knowledge of how he got there.”<\/p>\n

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A man intent on keeping DrunkTown alive and well in Downtown Raleigh was rescued by members of the Raleigh Fire Department on Sunday morning. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24061,"featured_media":43107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24061"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}