OK, this is just funny. A dude jumps out of a tree to attack potential graffiti violators. HILARIOUS!!
By TIM EBERLY
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Cabbagetown has had an ongoing problem with graffiti. Early Sunday morning, resident Rodney Bowman took the matter into his own hands.
Bowman perched himself in a tree to catch vandals who had been spray-painting a concrete wall that runs along a set of railroad tracks and borders his neighborhood.
The Krog Street tunnel, which connects Inman Park and Cabbagetown, is Atlanta's wildest, scariest, free art gallery. The concrete canvas is frequently 'updated' by unknown artists.
Around 2:20 a.m., they showed up.
Two young men, Joshua Ward, 19 and Jesse Jaeger, 21, started spray-painting the wall when Bowman sprang from the tree and attacked Ward, according to an Atlanta police report.
"It took me a few seconds to realize what was going on," Jaeger said Wednesday. "This guy just jumps out of a tree. I was like, 'Did that just happen?' We're still telling people about it. It's one of those things that, when you tell people, they don't believe you."
Bowman, 43, walked over to Ward and punched him in the face twice before the young men ran away and called police, the report said.
When an officer arrived, Bowman told him that "he had been watching the area closely" and "jumped out of the tree" to confront the vandals, the report said.
Ward and Jaeger admitted to police that they came to the concrete wall to spray paint, but they said they thought it was legal, the report said.
Jaeger said he and Ward were under the impression the wall -- just a few blocks from the Krog Street tunnel's famed concrete canvas -- was a "free space" where graffiti is allowed.
Jaeger said that, as they starting putting graffiti on the wall, Bowman sprang from the tree that was about 20 feet from them, fell down and walked toward Ward.
"I told you about [expletive] with our wall!" Bowman said, according to the report.
An officer gave Bowman a ticket for disorderly conduct, and Ward and Jaeger were ticketed for defacing a building, the report said.
In front of police officers, Bowman asked the young men what they were doing out there so late at night, Jaeger said.
"You were in a tree at 2:30 in the morning," they replied, according to Jaeger.
Bowman could not be reached for comment.
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YES YOU BETTER BELIEVE THAT THE TAGGER'S BEWARE OF THE TREE MAN .NOW LETS GET ONE THING STRAIGHT THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ART AND TRASH WHAT THE YOUNG MEN DID WAS TRASH . THAT'S WHY I JUMPED FROM THE TREE AND TAGGED ONE OF THEM . WHY DID THEY COME HERE TO CABBAGE TOWN LATE AT NIGHT TO PAINT THE WALL ? ITS BAD TO CALL THE YOUNG MEN KIDS WHEN THEY ARE OLD ENOUGH TO GO TO JAIL AS AN ADULT . TAKE A POLL OF THE HOME OWNERS IF THEY LIKE THE STUFF ON THE WALL AND YOU WILL FIND THAT MOST OF THEM DONT LIKE IT . AND IF THE WALL IS TOBECCOME FREE SPACE I WILL MAKE A POINT TO PAINT OVER ANY AND ALL OF WHAT IS PAAINTED THERE . THE SO CALLEED ARTEST NEVER CAME BACK TO REDO THERE SO CALLED ART IS WHY WE PAINTED OVER IT WITH A PRETTY COLOR OF GREEN ON MY REQUEST .
Oh yea there was some kids days before the tree jumping who got caught spray painting the wall . the same kid a year ago stole my stuff from my yard and his father is a cop made sure to let this young boy go . No the same boy is spray painting the Cabbage town wall then his cop father locked me up and patted his son on the back knowing I was in the right being his son and two of his friends had to help us remove the spray paint that was on all most every thing around here they didn't want to help clean it off . The kid went to daddy and told him I was threatening them the father Tony Singh is the Zone 2 cop who is a bad cop and its true that his wife smoked pot with me a year ago or so . Wow just think smoking pot with a cops wife now I see why they cant do something with there son . There child was kicked out of a school at Morning Side after he said that he was going to rape a child with a broom stick . The kid is a bully just like his father . I will file a complaint soon on the cop in Zone 2 and in Zone 6. This matter of tagging goes farther then what meets the eye . For one the kids hang out with the young men who lived on Gaskill who gave them spray paint and taught them to use spray paint and smoked pot with the KIDS and gave them beer and pills . The same young men are the tagger's who spray painted the church and the house across from me and on my trash can as well as others and on the street and on the stop signs etc etc . Is that a crime to do this ?yes all the way. And you all think that I'm the bad guy on this issue about tagging . Well I'm not bad and I do have a heart . TIM EBERLY CAN A COP CROSS OVER HIS ZONE ON HIS TIME TO THREATEN ME ? NO IF HE CAME AS A CONCERNED FATHER THEN TELL ME YOU THE FATHER AND NOT AN INVESTIGATOR AS HE TOLD ME .
WoW BAD COP'S in ATLANTA tell me this is not true glad you dont live on hill street.
Tony Singh you best back off and stop bulling me dude you know you did wrong and now every one knows . You needed to stop and think now I wanted to work with you about this after court but you had your head some where other then on your head. Now that you sent letters to me from your lawyer I have posted then every where and the news paper got copys of them now . When your son stole my stuff from my yard he broke the law but your friendsthe cops was going to lock me up . Dude I was in my house at the time . Then a year latter your son was spraying paint on the wall in Cabbagetown and I was out side watching him do it .And then you had me locked up for catching your son break the law again . Tony did your son threaten a boy much smaller then him with a knife ? The answer is yes . So there for you must be a bad father . YOU KNOW ITS ALL TRUE
Tony ( Anthony ) Singh ARE YOU READY FOR COURT ? I AM VERY READY TO LET EVERYONE KNOW YOU MADE A BIG MISTAKE WHEN YOU CAME TO MY HOUSE AS YOU DID . YOU SHOULD HAVE KNOWN NOT TO DO THIS BEING THAT YOU ARE A ZONE 2 SERGEANT AND I LIVE IN ZONE 6. IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT I MEAN ITS CALLED CONFLICT OF INTEREST . THEN YOU PUT YOUR FINGER IN MY CHEST AND SPIT IN MY FACE WHEN YOU WAS YELLING AT ME . I HAVE PROOF OF THIS TONY NOT JUST ONE WITNESS BUT THREE OF THEM . THEY LIKE ME THINK YOU WENT TO FAR ON THIS MATTER AND WE WISH FOR YOU TO STEP DOWN FROM YOUR JOB . AND TONY YOUR FRIEND IN ZONE 6 NEEDS TO DO THE SAME . I DO THINK HIS NAME IS R. SMITH AND IS THERE ANOTHER COP INVOLVED THAT IS IN ZONE 6 ? THE ANSWER IS YES . EVERY THING THAT I HAVE POSTED ABOUT YOU AND THE POLICE IS TRUE AND IS A FACT . I WILL POST EVERY THING I HAVE ON YOU HERE AND ELSE WHERE . YOU CAN NOT STOP ME .
Tony ( Anthony ) Singh I am going to ask that you keep your son away from my house . And if you can come to my house to fuck with me about your son breaking the law then your not done your job being a father . I am helping my neighborhood and your son is spray painting it . I am making my neighborhood safe and you are not doing this .But your a police man ? Give me a break your not a good person nor is your wife she is the back bone in all this court stuff . I wonder why is it that she don't like Judy and I wont buy pot from your wife any more ? Its people like you in the law enforcement that makes it bad . You are a bad father and a bad cop in my book as well as your wife .
Sergeant Tony Singh What did your son do the other day to get into trouble ?
Are you going to go there and lie to them as you did to me ?
And is your wife Kelly smoking pot and not watching over him ?
Wow just think the son of a cop doing crime and the apple don't fall far from it's tree is true and there is other proof to bad apples .
OH WHAT ABOUT YOUR SON BREAKING THE LAW TONY ? FACT OR NOT ?ITS A FACT AND A YEAR IN JAIL FOR ME JUST CATCHING YOUR SON TAGGING CABBAGETOWN WALL AND BEFORE THAT THEY STOLE MY STUFF OUT OF MY YARD .SHAME ON YOU TONY SINGH AND KELLY THE TEACHER ........?
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