Man spends 2 nights in tree, refuses to come down

Man spends 2 nights in tree, refuses to come down
After more than 52 hours, a man has come down from his perch in a tree in Queens.

According to Eyewitness News Reporter Stacey Sager, police brought food for Roody Thomas around 4:30 p.m. Friday.

Thomas climbed down from the tree and retrieved the food, but climbed right back up.

Around 5 p.m. he clambered out of the tree and onto the roof of his mother’s house and then climbed inside a window.

Thomas climbed the tree following an argument with his mother.

A criminal complaint filed his mother, 65-year-old Irlande Defailly, states that she got into a verbal dispute with the 44-year-old Thomas, at her home on 145th Street home in the Brookville section around 12:45 p.m. Wednesday afternoon.
 
 

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