Man Arrested for Dressing as Tree Is Hot
A well-known Portland, Maine, artist was arrested Oct. 25 for blocking traffic while dressed as an evergreen tree, the Portland Press Herald reports. Asher Woodworth (yes, Woodworth) was released the same night after making $60 bail.
Woodworth, 30, told the Bangor Daily News he “was meditating one day and this very clear vision for this performance kinda came to [him] out of an empty mind" and that “[he] just decided that this was something [he] needed to do.”
His vision also included walking “very, very slowly” across one of Portland’s busiest intersections - he explained he is a “tireless advocate of slowness and stillness and quiet” and that he felt “we could use a lot more of that right now.” The tree part is almost irrelevant: “Yeah, I was dressed as a tree, but that had nothing to do with why I was arrested.”
Police have arrested a man dressed as tree for blocking traffic on Congress Street...as God is my witness. pic.twitter.com/VUFQY6Vyv0
- TVTEDDY (@TVTEDDY) October 24, 2016
He reportedly tre(e)aded around the city for about an hour before police arrived. Nothing he did shocked officers, as Assistant Police Chief Vern Malloch told the Press Herald these types of artistic stunts happen around the city “from time to time. People do bizarre things because they want to get arrested.”
Woodworth also reportedly carried a boombox with him and played a remix of JoJo’s classic he called “Get Out (Leaf)” while getting sappy about - ugh, OK, no, I’m reaching. Disregard all that last part. The point is that this tree man has a cute mug shot. Goodbye.
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