© Ari Perilstein/Getty Images for Barneys New YorkDominique Ansel's cronut
When EMS responded, most people reportedly stayed in line, 1010 WINS Roger Stern reported. Alex, a woman visiting from Indiana, said she would have stayed for a chance at scoring the tasty treat. "I just heard that they're so good so might as well just wait," she said.
John from the East Village had a different take and said he would've have left. "I doubt I would have stayed. That's just too much, just to get a Cronut, that's too much of an experience," he said.
As for the man on the bench, sources said he's from the area and that his death does not appear to be suspicious.
One summer Friday afternoon in the late '90s I walked into a bar at the airport in Sacramento, California to get a drink and wait for my flight home to begin boarding. There was an older man stretched out on the floor in the middle of the bar with one of his worn cowboy boots resting on the bar rail and his mouth half open. He was unconscious and unmoving.
The bartender said they had called the paramedics, but no one was working on the old boy. He didn't look prosperous, wearing a western style long-sleeved shirt and faded blue jeans. All of the people in the bar ignored him.
After a few minutes the paramedics showed up. They took a look at the guy laying there and got out their defibrillator. They told everyone sitting at the bar to take their feet off the bar rail, because their patient was in contact with the rail and they might receive a shock. People moved their feet and continued drinking and so on.
The paramedics couldn't revive the guy, of course, so they placed his body on a stretcher and carried it away.