Here’s a weird one - back in the middle of the night in August 2007, a guy began to spray-paint a congratulatory message to a newlywed couple on the side wall of a store. Two of his friends acted as lookouts. Two Philly cops allegedly jumped out of their squad car and chased the graffiti artist. When they caught him, the officers allegedly beat him up and then let him go.
The graff artist’s friends took him to Albert Einstein Medical Center, where he underwent surgery to repair a broken jaw, which was wired shut for five weeks.
Now, there is some hilarious speculation that the man that the police beat - 37 year old David Vernitsky of the Logan section of Philly - is OZ, a graffiti artist who’s been tagging all over Philadelphia for the past 20 years.
The best part of the story is that a day after the Philly DA filed charges against the cops, the Philadelphia Daily News ran a pic of Vernitsky wearing a T-shirt reading, “Hello, my name is OH-ZEE.”
In a recent DN article, Vernitsky claims that he is a big Wizard Of Oz fan but that he is not thee OZ - although he claims that he knows who OZ is. Haha! Even if he isn’t OZ, this story has urban legend potential.
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richie // Jul 2, 2008 at 5:32 pm
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