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Last night, tree sitter Nathaniel Hill fell 30 feet after trying to meet his dad outside the fence, which is actually two fences now. Don’t worry, he’s fine. The Clog is actually quite impressed that it’s taken this long for someone (else) to fall out of the trees. Treewoks indeed! The Chron reports:
He fell about 8:22 p.m. while traversing one of the ropes that the tree-sitters strung between the trees, said UC Berkeley spokesman Dan Mogulof. He fell from a height of about 25 to 30 feet and suffered broken bones but no life-threatening injuries, Mogulof said.
Later in the article, Mogulof continues with a funny “I told you so!”–well, at least we imagine that’s what he meant.
“It’s a really regrettable accident but, to state the obvious, completely avoidable,”
This kind of reminds us of the protests going on at Columbia University, in which a hunger striker was recently hospitalized after 4 days of not eating. Many students there seem to be reacting to the incident with sentiments similar to Mogulof’s–”regrettable, but completely avoidable.”
Is sustaining somewhat self-inflicted injuries noble or stupid? We’re thinking it’s more of the latter.
Bets are already on for how long Hill takes to make the university pay his medical bills.
Image Source: George Derk, Daily Cal
Tree-sitter falls, is in the hospital [SF Chronicle]
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