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Summary He spends more than 125 hours aloft, then surrenders to police in Oklahoma.
A man who scaled an Oklahoma TV tower last week surrendered to Tulsa police Tuesday after a six-day standoff, the Tulsa World reported.After several hours of attempts by rescue crews to coax him to safety, William Boyd Sturdivant II, 25, climbed into a Tulsa Fire Department truck lift around 6:40 p.m. and was brought 100 feet down to the ground.Once he reached the ground, police and fire department officials placed Sturdivant on a stretcher and transported him to a hospital, according to the Tulsa World.The KOTV-DT station reported that Sturdivant had been on the Clear Channel radio tower since 11 a.m. Thursday.During several rescue attempts, crews offered Sturdivant food and water if he would agree to come down from his perch. It is unclear how crews finally persuaded Sturdivant to leave the tower.During Tuesdays rescue efforts, a man in the fire department truck lift at times touched Sturdivants hand, seeming to try to persuade him into the bucket, but was rebuffed. At one point, the man could be seen grabbing Sturdivants feet, trying to pull him in as Sturdivant resisted.
