NY town orders stop to Gaddafi tent on Donald Trump property

NEW YORK – Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was having a tent pitched on suburban New York property owned by Donald Trump on Tuesday until local officials stopped the work because it violated regulations, a town attorney said.

Gaddafi, a famously eccentric figure known for pitching a large Bedouin tent on his trips abroad, was scheduled to address the UN General Assembly in New York yesterday.The tent was partly erected and satellite dishes were being put in place when a building inspector arrived at the property in Bedford, New York, that belongs to famed real estate developer Trump, said Bedford town attorney Joel Sachs.Authorities in Bedford, an affluent suburb about 48 kilometres north of New York City, learned of Gaddafi’s plans from the US Secret Service, the attorney said.The building inspector gave a ‘stop work’ order to workers at the scene but they did not speak English, so he issued the order to a Trump caretaker, Sachs said. It was unclear whether the work had stopped, Sachs said.Gaddafi last month had plans to erect a tent in suburban New Jersey where the Libyan embassy owns property, but the US government said he could not use the land for that purpose. A request to set up his tent in New York’s Central Park also was turned down. – Nampa-Reuters