Man in Seattle tree descends after 25 hours

Chef Michelle Matsko paused as she walked to work Wednesday, gazed up from beneath her red umbrella and marveled: Nearly 24 hours later, a man was still perched near the top of an 80-foot-tall sequoia tree in the middle of a shopping district in downtown Seattle. “I’m really impressed,” she said. “It’s been raining. He’s a trouper.” The man, name and cause unknown, finally climbed safely down just before noon, after transfixing the city and the Internet for 25 hours as police to closed adjacent streets and tried to coax him down/ Associated Press . More here.