“I'm an artist and I have disheveled clothes and stuff. I'm confident in who I am and my style..."
Strange days, these, and especially in Huntington Beach, California. Surf City, USA was once known as a place to watch surf contests and occasionally riot. Those times now long in the rearview. Currently, Huntington is a MAGA hotspot with libraries being renamed after the political movement, rainbow flags banned and neighbors on the lookout for homeless men involved in child trafficking rings.
Enter Chapman Hamborg. The 33-year-old Huntington Beach artist, according to People Magazine, “is often found painting and sculpting in his backyard studio or surfing the waves near his home. His favorite pastime, however, is spending quality time with the family.”
Thus, two-ish weeks ago found him outdoors, walking his newborn baby. “She’s in her fussy newborn stage so I take her on lots of walks and I wear her in the baby carrier,” the platinum blonde told the human interest publication. “I go out often in the middle of the night, like all times of the day and multiple times a day. It’s kind of like a routine to give my wife some rest.”
Well, this particular day, a police officer met him out front when he came home and demanded to see some identification. A neighbor had reported a homeless man walking around with a baby, you see, and thus Johnny Law.
“I’m an artist and I have disheveled clothes and stuff. I’m confident in who I am and my style and, you know, I’ve never been to a barber. I cut my own hair,” he shared. “I have no problem with it. Like I choose to dress the way I do for a reason and I’m not going to change the way I look because of it.”
He was also wearing Patagonia the morning of the incident.
The officer, anyhow, accepted the explanation, once seeing the ID, and left with a lightly bemused chuckle.
The cop caller, though?
“So I’ve kind of seen her car… I recognize the car, so I can figure out which house it is. And I’ve gone on several walks back and forth since then, kind of hoping to see her and just be like, ‘Hey, I’m your neighbor and I’m not homeless,’ ” Hamborg explained. “Not to be mad or guilt trip or anything. Because like my wife even said, ‘Hey, at least we know our neighbors are looking out for our kids.’”
A fine attitude.
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Cake baby?
Was a “hippy new age yoga health food” thing.
Now the American Trump cult members own it. Americans were not smart enough, collectively, to handle the Internet. Damn that Al Gore. He got us all for Florida in 2000.
In the eyes of the present day Trump Americano, today’s democrat voter is all aboot abortions, transgingerbreads, and illegal immigrants who show-up to voting polls in tour buses.
That’s the big 3 right now. Watch Fox News for any changes in “programming.”
This Huntington Beach has reminded me of Sgt Rick Hunter and Sgt Dede McCall of the Los Angeles Policing Department, with LA’s “black & whites” I always imagined HB’s police force to have something more colorful. Oh well.
They call me, “Drugs Bunny.” I hop around seeking substances and will probably defecate in your yard someday.
If this Indian vs Pakistan thing escalates I may join the Indian Navy. Ah, the Aussies are interested cause of da cricket. Freaken cricket!
Do not anybody come in skin contact with this message as I got a herpes outbreak today… right at the weed store.
What’s the stroy going around about griffin? Some controversy apparently
Thanks for your hard work.
Wearing that much brown is the real offence here
I guess all the crimes in Huntington Beach have been solved if they can afford to send two police cars to harass a man going for a walk with his baby.
Libs ratting out other libs is perfect. Soon they’ll be extinct…
Chapman grew up homeschooled with his four brothers, according to his website.
Is homeschooling usually done by righties or lefties?
But he is an artist, so I guess that excludes righties.
Dude, you can not be a conservative and a surfer. If you’re Americano, you ain’t even conservative but a cult member, bro. Donald ain’t a conservative. Ward Cleaver was a conservative.
I vote democratic because I’m not a rich evil guy nor a stupid hick moron or a wannabe elite suburban tool. Ya dig, ponyboy? I don’t care aboot transgingerbreads nor abortions and I adore Mexican drug dealers but not the rapists. So, I don’t know if I’m a “lib.”
But why don’t you extinct the libs yourselves, brah? Oh, right, you have the government fight your social wars for you.
hey, man, pssss you wanna buy some Vaccine, bro? All da Fox News hosts buy my Vaccine, bro. My Vaccine is the best, bro. That “African American” down the block got garbage Vaccine, bro. Yo, two for five, bro! two for five!
Classic Snowflake Libtard whining! Put your helmet on, go outside and touch grass, don’t forget to hug your pronouns little guy…😂🤣😂
Where do you get “whining?” from, bro? You slow or something?
Snowflake? Nothing offends me, bro. Unlike your ilk. Your type tells on people to moderators, bro.
I smoke grass. I don’t “touch” it, bro.
Wow, you dumb as hell, bro!
Cool emojis, bro.
https://media2.giphy.com/me… You’re probably wearing Crocs too. Don’t forget your Helmet on the way to weed store jr…. it’s okay plenty of Libtards live relatively normal lives…
Bro, cool gif.
Yeah conservatives are known for exciting lives.
Bro, my friend’s dad knew Joey Merlino.
The dudes at Lee & Clearfield St in Philadelphia allow me to say the N-word. They call me “Serial Killer.”
And all the blacks in the Atlantic County Justice Facility love me.
I dig how you Trump cult members call democrats “tards.”
You people are the dumbest people to have ever existed on this planet.
Yeah even dumber than ancient Hawaiians.
I look forward to your next meme/gif and attempt at wit.
You gay transgender fetus.
Thanks for proving my point!…
Cunt would be considered dressed up in Byron.
Excellent. Very good.
Thank you.
Save Thompson Blvd
looks are scary. but these groins have held for decades. two tidal waves. severe 280 degrees northers. beach-goers marching on the flora. the whole harbor-keys area was a landfill in the 40s-50s…surfable by any standards 364 1/2 days a year.
Cuntington Bitch
2 dad’s?
Get a haircut and a real job sweetheart
Chapman Hamborg for HB Mayor.
qualify for shaper of the year v chuck dent? mickey munoz? fuck that surf city/honor the surf shops. now owned by the syrianz/tea-totlaers then…alcohol and vapes are gone in the blink of a saudi judge…local 321’s and boy scouts overturned dat https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
I got my Toyota Tercel waxed there even though I lived 3 miles inland.
also need to scrape off the salty air?
Oh tim_nelsen, you did it again.
promoted…for a window washin position. they stole my camera(s)/
can’t steal the dune buggy. love Meyer;s~ and Mannx
Get it!
That’s weird.Been living here on and off since ’97,and nary a problem,apart for being caught speeding in Hokkaido.
Oh,and in Nagoya,one police bloke told me to skate on the street,went round corner, another policeman told me to get on the pavement.
Perhaps you have a perpetual guilty fizzog from too much Grit?
Stollen baby?
Sweet as!
Mmmmmm, Stollen. https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Not surprising at all
Same thing happened to my brother-in-law in Redwood City. Soul singer brother with a big afro, outside the house carrying one of his light-skinned mixed race toddlers. Dude is a human rights lawyer who flies all over the planet studying prison systems that work well. Karen cunt that called the police on him for being a black man in a mostly white neighborhood is a fucking piece of shit.
Not just Karen Cunt, a Triflin’ Karen Cunt! If were me I’d be plotting all sorts of (legal) revenge.
Lesson: homeless men NEVER wear Patagonia
Arc’teryx?
Pro Club chic
looks like a tech CEO……or Coffee shop owner.
🤣
Talks like a female.
Twice when I was living in London in my early twenties, I had old ladies try and give me money while sitting outside work thinking I was homeless.
Dude one time my bicycle chain literally exploded on my way to school (my job) right at one of the bus stops for the kids. So I jumped on the bus cuz it pulled up perhaps 10 seconds after, in the location of my chain blow-out. The driver was a substitute janitor or something and reported to my principal that a homeless dude rode the bus.
also my ELO for life flair piece is rad. Thank you