Some Guy in the Other Portland Dressed Up As A Tree and Blocked Traffic

The other Portland has outweirded us.

The day has come when Portland, Maine has outweirded us.

A Maine man dressed up as a tree and stood in the middle of an intersection yesterday morning in Portland. His name is Asher.

Police told him to get out of the street. When he didn't say anything, an officer responded, ""I'll accept your silence as you understand. You're free to go."

But just moments later, the man went back into the street. That's when police arrested him. He was not wearing the branches when he got into the police car, and was fully clothed. He was booked on charges for obstructing a public way and was let out on a $60 bail later that day.

Nobody knows what the man's intent was, but the assistant police chief had an idea:

"His motivation was to see how people would react to what he called his 'performance' and how he might impact 'people's natural choreography,' " he told the Portland Press Herald in an email.

…Sure.

Even the OG Portland's cops seem to have outweirded ours.

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