Whacko attacks graffiti artists
July 3, 2008 at 10:58 am by Mara Shalhoup in News
The AJC reports today on a man who hid in a tree near the Krog Street tunnel over the weekend and ambushed two young graffiti artists. The man, 43-year-old Rodney Bowman, apparently flipped out and punched one of the “vandals” twice in the face, a police report states.
One of the men, 21-year-old Jesse Jaeger, is an artist who’s exhibited at Youngblood Gallery who participated in a group show curated by Travis Smith and hosted by Young Blood Gallery last year. Both Jaegar and Joshua Ward, 19, were ticketed for defacing a building. Bowman was ticketed for disorderly conduct.
According to the story:
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.
The story’s photo caption describes the Krog tunnel as the city’s “scariest” free art gallery — an alarmist characterization, to be sure, but not nearly so off-mark as calling Krog an “eyesore,” which the AJC did last year.
(Photo courtesy “Shaft’s bigscore” from CL’s Flickr group)
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July 3rd, 2008 at 9:06 pm
I am flattered that you used my image in this article.
July 7th, 2008 at 10:35 am
What a wild night…he also broke in to my car but doesn’t say that any where and this is why the cops where called.
July 24th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
support artwork of all mediums
August 8th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Broke in to your car Dude it was a white pick up truck you forgot to lock the door … And I was first to call the police not you two . That’s why I didn’t go to jail that night . LOL But like I said there is a right way of doing things .Last but not the least I live here not any of you so I do have a say so on what goes on here . I lived here half my life and I am not going any where . I know I went a little to far with what I did but I got my name and your two names in the news paper . So be happy . I’m not here to bash you two guys or slander any of you who may slander me . Who ever reads this please take note that the two young men Jaegar and Joshua aren’t bad guys .
August 8th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
But you’re kinda cuckoo in the bam bam, huh?
August 9th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
well if you dumb enough to come out at night to paint in the dark on a wall that dont belong to you then who is right or wrong ? You come to where I live not the other way around . I am not the 18 year old who is teaching 14 year olds to tag walls and trash cans and stop signs every thing that you can think of being sprayed painted here where I live . Bad part is the 14 year old is a cops son go look him up .
August 18th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
JOHN RENDER I WILL BE PAINTING OVER YOUR WORK VERY SOON TO MAKE A STATEMENT ABOUT TAGGING SO I WILL START BY TAGGING A TAGGER LOL NOW WHATS YOU GONA DO ?
August 24th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
wow bowman , nice work . I would love to get up with you sometime and cover all this crappy graffiti around our neigborhood . lets buy some paint and buff all these lowlife toys . keep up the good work.