August 02, 2005
Dangling from chains off a Manhattan hotel balcony, a man showered midtown with bizarre leaflets about Florida tourism yesterday - triggering a massive police response amid fears he had a bomb. As cops closed the block, the man, who was wearing a mountain-climbing-style harness anchored to the 13th floor, unleased a blizzard of flyers, witnesses said.
"I looked up and there were all these papers flying around, like a ticker-tape parade," said cabbie Abu Masuud, 51, of Brooklyn, whose taxi got caught in the gridlock.
The flyers were printouts from a Web site (www.antitourflorida.com).
The papers described in rambling detail how bad weather, parking tickets and crime could ruin a tourist's trip to Miami. The Web site is registered to a Mauricio Pavez of Miami, whose listed telephone number has been disconnected. (source: NYDN)
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