Is nothing sacred? NYC homeless man is
arrested for torching News Corp's giant
50ft Xmas tree outside its Manhattan HQ
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Jennifer Smith
&
Jack Newman
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
12/8/2021 8:18:46 AM
A 49-year-old homeless man has been arrested for setting fire to the iconic 50ft Christmas Tree outside the News Corp HQ in Times Square last night. Fox News employees watched as the Craig Tamanaha, 49, climbed the tree at 12.14am and called police. He tried to scramble away, but was taken into custody. NYPD detectives tell DailyMail.com that it was a completely random act and not politically motivated against News Corp, which owns The New York Post and The Wall Street Journal.It's unclear how long Tamahana had been living in the city. He has two prior arrests with the NYPD - one in February and
Reply 1 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 12/8/2021 8:37:09 AM (No. 1000452)
Call me cynical, but I don't see this as an random action. If you scratch beneath the surface on the perp, I'll bet you'll find a demented leftist who sees Fox News as evil incarnate.
42 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
jalo1951 12/8/2021 8:39:33 AM (No. 1000455)
Anybody know where Brian Stelter or Jim Acosta were around midnight? Seriously, not to worry, this guy will be released and his Bic Lighter will be given back to him with the thanks of a grateful NYC Council.
38 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
starboard 12/8/2021 8:40:05 AM (No. 1000456)
Three hots and a cot probably sound good to him.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 12/8/2021 8:43:39 AM (No. 1000463)
"Homeless," eh? Most likely on some 'Rat or FIB payroll somewhere.
27 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 12/8/2021 9:03:54 AM (No. 1000480)
Another one of New York City's finest. Well, at least he didn't decide to jump into a car and start driving over people.
17 people like this.
There are two possibilities:
1. NYC has become a lawless cesspool, just a season away from having to send in Snake Blixon to help people escape from New York.
2. “That’s a fine TV station over there, be a shame if something happened to it. Drop story X about Y and I can guarantee your safety.”
20 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 12/8/2021 9:05:46 AM (No. 1000484)
Those Noo Yawkers are such nice happy people. I don't believe this is a random act there's more to this. It was an attack on Fox News. FNYC
23 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
SilkCity 12/8/2021 9:32:04 AM (No. 1000509)
Fire for hire, I'd bet
18 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
rabblerouser 12/8/2021 9:41:28 AM (No. 1000518)
You are right #1. The Daily Mail article was quick to put out the narrative (backed by NYPD detectives) that there was "no political motive". Just tells me that there was indeed a political motive. If you just remember we are living in opposite land, it is a breeze to figure things out.
18 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
planetgeo 12/8/2021 9:51:51 AM (No. 1000528)
When you think about it isn't this essentially what the Democrats have been doing to our laws, our history, and our culture...torching them?
14 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
MickTurn 12/8/2021 10:03:52 AM (No. 1000543)
He's likely already out on No cash Bail and given 100 gallons of gasoline and a pallet of Matches.
14 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
PageTurner 12/8/2021 10:05:39 AM (No. 1000545)
I think it's political. Be pretty easy for a leftist to pay a bum like this to do what he did. The bum would like the money.
10 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
snapper451 12/8/2021 10:18:49 AM (No. 1000562)
My first thought it was Fredo.
9 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
coldoc 12/8/2021 10:21:50 AM (No. 1000566)
The deblasio tree. Leave it there just like it is.
12 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 12/8/2021 10:25:18 AM (No. 1000571)
Perfect metaphor, the Democrats burning Christmas.
13 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
MDConservative 12/8/2021 10:37:38 AM (No. 1000583)
What? A homeless guy just decides to burn down a Christmas tree and flicks his BIC to make it so? Yeah. Sure. Pass that bottle to me...
9 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
columba 12/8/2021 11:09:17 AM (No. 1000613)
I find it ironic that a newspaper that ignores the reality of God when the newspaper alleges that a tree at its location is sacred.
6 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
HPmatt 12/8/2021 11:10:06 AM (No. 1000614)
NOW Fox News is on the story.....a few years after HOW MANY NYers have been beaten, robbed, shot, killed, with the Soros/Marxist DAs & City Councils & NY Legislators letting crooks, murderers & thieves out of jail on personal recognizance? NOW Fox is on it when they burn down the Fox Holiday Tree......Boo Hoo Hoo.....
Sky if falling now....
5 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
billp 12/8/2021 11:33:58 AM (No. 1000634)
Isn't it really weird how most of the homeless live in the compassionate (and wealthy) Democrat controlled municipalities? Isn't it really weird how so many of these 'murdering racist cops' come from the compassionate (and wealthy) Democrat controlled municipalities? Isn't it really weird how most of the 'gun violence' is perpetrated by the Democrat governed inner cities where guns are banned? Why is it they can never cure those problems they harp on and complain about even when they control it all? Any of you Donks care to comment?
6 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
Trump'sCousin 12/8/2021 12:12:07 PM (No. 1000665)
He should be strapped to the top of a Christmas tree in Rockefeller center and lit up.
We need to start making examples of savages.
4 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
PrayerWarrior 12/8/2021 12:19:26 PM (No. 1000675)
Bongino on the radio is saying the perp burned the tree from the inside out. I got to thinking about the WWII and the 5th Column. The 5th Column were the inside the Country traitors, the inside the Country enemies working to destroy America during WWII. Sounds like the Left, the Commies, the demonrats, the Biden/Obama/Soros cabal working from the inside to destroy this Great Country! Burning this Fox Christmas Tree is a metaphor for this nation's enemies trying to destroy us from the inside. The Democrat Party is the Fifth Column!
5 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
DVC 12/8/2021 12:20:14 PM (No. 1000676)
We used to have mental institutions with locked doors where these people were housed so they couldn't inflict their violent insanity on the rest of us.
But this is another of the "benefits" of leftist in charge. More of their "compassion".
6 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
kono 12/8/2021 1:25:44 PM (No. 1000755)
"Is nothing sacred?"
The "tolerance" and "coexist" movements have been unmasked, promoting chaos without principles of mutual respect. If we don't like what others have, no longer just say, vive le difference. But destroy it.
As for the sacred part -- nope. The tree is really a legacy of a pagan tradition that was re-purposed when those people were converted to Christianity. It's not sacred; it's secular. The Cross is sacred. The Holy Family is sacred. Saint Nicholas is sacred. But neither the tree, nor Santa Claus, nor the Easter Bunny is sacred, even if our society has historically associated them with holidays that are based on Christian holy days.
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