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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsMan Dressed As Tree Arrested
It is an indisputable fact that trees don't belong in the street. Luckily, we have law enforcement to deal with such situations. Yesterday in Portland, Maine, police successfully arrested a stubborn human tree, who was blocking traffic at a busy intersection.
The piney perp "went to Congress Square wearing what appeared to be branches from an evergreen tree," the Portland Press-Herald reports. Police approached him, lifted the needly branches from his face, and told him to stay out of traffic. When he walked into the road, they arrested him for obstructing a public way. Video shows the tree slowly shuffling down the crosswalk, flanked by officers.
The offending tree man, Asher A. Woodworth, is a local artist. His previous work includes various professional dance performances, as well as stealing the pepper from a local Chili's sign. He describes himself as an "impulsive" person who "believes in physical labor and the unity of opposites." Photo and video evidence suggest he made a really convincing tree.
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/man-dressed-as-tree-arrested-in-maine?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=atlas-page
The piney perp "went to Congress Square wearing what appeared to be branches from an evergreen tree," the Portland Press-Herald reports. Police approached him, lifted the needly branches from his face, and told him to stay out of traffic. When he walked into the road, they arrested him for obstructing a public way. Video shows the tree slowly shuffling down the crosswalk, flanked by officers.
The offending tree man, Asher A. Woodworth, is a local artist. His previous work includes various professional dance performances, as well as stealing the pepper from a local Chili's sign. He describes himself as an "impulsive" person who "believes in physical labor and the unity of opposites." Photo and video evidence suggest he made a really convincing tree.
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/man-dressed-as-tree-arrested-in-maine?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=atlas-page
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Man Dressed As Tree Arrested (Original Post)
bluedigger
Oct 2016
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Solly Mack
(90,789 posts)1. Sometimes you gotta be a tree.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)3. Cuz there's a million ways to tree
you know that there are...
Solly Mack
(90,789 posts)4. Find your primary motivation and be the best tree you can be
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)5. I just don't wanna
be a sap.
Solly Mack
(90,789 posts)6. But then what would we put on our pancakes?
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)2. He must be very poplar in his community
FSogol
(45,532 posts)11. I woodn't want to copy him. He should leaf the roadway.
surrealAmerican
(11,364 posts)14. ... oh, yew ...
rug
(82,333 posts)18. His roots go deep.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)28. Ah, but he was so much alder then, he's younger than that now
Baitball Blogger
(46,764 posts)26. Not poplar. Just trunk and lumbering about.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,879 posts)8. He was pineted out larching across the street
all spruced up.
Iggo
(47,574 posts)12. "Asher Woodworth."
Enrique
(27,461 posts)13. Maine Man!
Laffy Kat
(16,388 posts)15. He was just trying to spruce the place up is all. nt
jpak
(41,760 posts)16. Euell Gibbons would have eaten him - alive
MicaelS
(8,747 posts)17. If I had been there, I would have done
My own art. I would have gotten a chainsaw and fired it up.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)23. Somebody would call the copse
MicaelS
(8,747 posts)25. Doh!!!
True Dough
(17,337 posts)19. I wish y'all
would stop needling this poor man!
Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)20. Yeah, I woke up to that news story on the radio this morning.
A little strange... but it's Portland. There are some interesting folks there.
Kennah
(14,337 posts)21. I am Groot
Initech
(100,107 posts)22. WE ARE GROOT!
lillypaddle
(9,581 posts)24. Dude
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)27. Darn treebaggers! n/t
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)31. Don't worry--he willow a substantial fine.
Mendocino
(7,513 posts)29. Wood eye Wood Eye!
Hairlip!
old old joke
Illinois Irishman
(32 posts)32. He was arrested fir that?
That's not oak ay!