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Rachner was wearing a faded t-shirt, jeans and leather jacket, and didn't remotely resemble the guy who misfired the ball, who wore English golfing duds, a Tatt

• pyre 17y ago
  It sounds like he was part of the 'urban golfing' group. He wasn't arrested for hitting the guy with the ball: Arrested instead, based on victim identification, was security researcher and computer cryptologist David Hulton of Seattle. The city attorney dropped the misdemeanor assault charge, but only after Hulton spent $2,500 on a lawyer. Hulton has joined Rachner in his project, helping to pay for attorney Stockmeyer's expenses, because he said, "I want to effect change." The guy that got hit by the ball also didn't seem to think it was as big of a deal as the police made it out to be: The sponge ball victim Gabriel Scott Clark, then a Seattle coffee house worker and now living in Miami, said he was surprised by the multiple arrests: "I didn't think it would be that big of an issue. I was just mad at the one guy." The police never even got the right guy: Marcus Johnson of Los Angeles apologetically admitted in an interview that he sliced the ball that hit the victim. Police never detained or identified him, but he and others said Johnson was "in the thick of things" when police arrived.