{"id":6584,"date":"2019-09-30T04:15:28","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/man-climbs-tree-to-avoid-taxi-fare\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:15:28","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:28","slug":"man-climbs-tree-to-avoid-taxi-fare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/man-climbs-tree-to-avoid-taxi-fare\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Climbs Tree To Avoid Taxi Fare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Polish man who climbed a tree to avoid a several zloty (dollar) taxi fare on Saturday, may end up paying more than $4,000 for a rescue operation that involved two fire brigade units.<\/p>\n<p>Pursued by an irate taxi driver in the northwestern city of Szczecin, the passenger climbed a tall tree, jumped from branch to branch and hurled bananas from a shopping bag at a crowd which soon gathered at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>More than a dozen firefighters were called in and spread out an airbag under the tree as a police psychologist was sent up in a ladder-bucket to negotiate with the man, fire brigade spokesman Robert Tyczkowski told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>After a two-hour stand-off, the man agreed to come down, but may have to pay many times the original taxi fare he tried to evade.<\/p>\n<p>Private Radio Zet reported the fire brigade was planning to send him a 18,000-zloty ($4,300) bill for the rescue operation.<\/p>\n<p>________<\/p>\n<p>Climbing trees was expensive for Zacchaeus as well &#8211; he ended up giving away half his income and even more to cover his cheating. (Holwick)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Polish man who climbed a tree to avoid a several zloty (dollar) taxi fare on Saturday, may end up paying more than $4,000 for a rescue operation that involved two fire brigade units. Pursued by an irate taxi driver in the northwestern city of Szczecin, the passenger climbed a tall tree, jumped from branch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2079,2080,1833],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}