Everything cool between taggers, man in tree
July 16, 2008 at 11:45 am by Mara Shalhoup in NewsAfter this week’s story about the tensions between Cabbagetown residents and local graffiti artists went to press, we learned that the man ticketed by police for hiding in a tree and pouncing on two taggers has made amends with them.
The man, Rodney Bowman, was ticketed for disorderly conduct after he jumped from the tree at 2:30 a.m. one Sunday morning and surprised Joshua Ward and Jesse Jaeger, who were about to spray-paint a railroad wall near the Krog Street Tunnel. Bowman punched Ward in the face, then pulled one of the sparkplugs from Jaeger’s truck in an attempt to keep them from fleeing.
The police also ticketed Ward and Jaeger, for defacing a public building.
All the three men went to court on Monday and said they didn’t want to push the case, so the judge dropped the charges.
“We shook hands, all three of us did,” Bowman told CL. “And I told them that they are welcome to come back and speak with our [neighborhood] association to put their artwork on the wall. And I hope that they do come back and do that.”
As for Jaeger, Bowman said: “I even offered to buy him a set of sparkplugs.”
In an email, Ward wrote that he was pleased with how it all turned out:
“Rodney apologized to me for what he did and now wants us to get a lot of graffiti writers to actually paint murals on the wall, haha things actually turned out to be pretty cool.”
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August 8th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Joshua Ward and Jesse Jaeger I do hope that I am forgiven for my actions towards you two .
Rodney Bowman