About 5 minutes after the freight had stopped , two cops jumped from in between freight cars pointing a gun at Pysa. One of the cops had yelled real loud “Freeze Asshole!!”…
Here is a little article I found that Rime had wrote about doing this piece.
Well where do I begin? I thought doing one of these Persue sketches would turn out to be a fun experience, but in actuality the whole experience turned out to be a real headache! I went out at night to a LA river underpass with Revok, Sever, Detr and Pysa. Revok was working on the sketch drawn for him by Sever and everyone else was just rocking up there own thing. The night started off really chill. This under pass was the home of a little bum village and within close distance to this loft space warehouse. Some horrible rock band was rehearsing these out of tune whining melodies and Revok was singing along. The underpass is along this freight line which runs right above the LA river. We were casually painting for a few hours. Occasionally we hid from the few freights that passed on the line . Revok finished first and I finished shortly after. While we were waiting for everyone else to finish Revok was walking around catching tags and I was playing around with these stars on my piece. A long freight line had rolled past and stopped under the underpass. We continued to paint and felt completely relaxed.
About 5 minutes after the freight had stopped , two cops jumped from in between freight cars pointing a gun at Pysa. One of the cops had yelled real loud “Freeze Asshole!!”… Once I heard that shit I immediately jumped off the side wall to the left of my piece. Sever , Pysa, and myself slid down the slanted concrete hill and ran right into the river. Revok and Deter took off running down the freight tracks away from the cops. As we ran into the river we hid around the blind side of this wall out of site of the police. We saw their flashlights looking around for us, but we were well hidden behind this wall in the river. That river is so fucking disgusting! We were standing in about two feet of running water. I wanted to cross the river, but these guys were convinced that the current was too strong and would sweep us down stream… I didn’t give a fuck.. I had seen this bum cross it about an hour prior. We ended up standing in the river for about two hours waiting for the cops to leave… When we got out we were able to see that the cops dissed all of our pieces with the cans that dropped in the chase. Revok and Detr ended up running to the other side of town and eventually caught up with us a while after… Shit was a really wack night… I had to throw out my sneakers because they smelled so bad.
Going back to fix the piece was really discouraging! I just covered all the mess and messages with a fat cap and tried my best to redraw the outline from memory.. If you look at the two versions you can see some changes that happened unintentionally. The police can suck a dick.. but for some reason I like the dissed version better then the cleaned version….
Oh well…
excerpt taken from http://graffitiprojects.com/exchange/exchanges/rimepersue.html
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