This is a job for Batman!
p2pnet.net OT News:- It was ‘unbelievably easy’ to breech security" and, "[...] it’s easier to get onto the Queen’s balcony than see my own children".
That’s how MSNBC quotes Jason Hatch, a father who, dressed as Batman, scaled a wall at Buckingham Palace and stood on a ledge near the balcony where the royal family appears on ceremonial occasions.
He pulled the stunt to focus attention on the plight of divorced fathers who lack visitation rights with their children, says MSNBC, going on:
"Hatch’s protest was timed to coincide with Monday’s trial of another Fathers 4 Justice member, Patrick Ronald Davis, 48, who is accused of throwing purple flour at Prime Minister Tony Blair in the House of Commons in May. That incident sparked a security alert and new restrictions on public access to the chamber.
"On Saturday, another member of the group who dressed as Spiderman climbed atop the 450-foot-tall London Eye Ferris wheel beside the River Thames. Last year, one of the group’s members spent five days atop a 120-foot crane beside Tower Bridge."
"Hatch, a painter and decorator from Gloucester, used a ladder to scale the palace railings where they meet a palace annexe close to the road," says a News.Telegraph story.
He’s national co-ordinator of Fathers 4 Justice and says he’s only seen his son, aged five, and daughter, four, for a six hours in the past three years, according to the Tele.
Going up (Press Association) – Arrival (Associated Press) – Nabbed (Reuters)
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See:-
Queens balcony – Riddle me this? ‘Batman’ stunt stirs questions, MSNBC, September 14, 2004
six hours – Batman zaps security at the Palace, News.Telegraph, September 15, 2004
September 15th, 2004 at 8:28 am
It’s sad that you need to break the law to get press coverage.
Think it would have made the news if he had made a 10m statue of batman?
Well, a 10m statue of catwoman might have worked.