San Francisco’s Bushman has been famous for popping out
and up from behind large camouflaging branches and entertaining the pedestrians.
San Francisco’s Bushman has been famous in San Francisco for more than three decades.
Born named David Johnson,
San-Francisco’s Bushman hides behind camouflaging branches waiting for
unsuspecting tourists, most frequently at the famous Fisherman’s Wharf. When
the tourists are coming closer to him, he, all of a sudden, starts shaking the
large leaf at the pedestrians and says words such as “ugga bugga” and
errghh, and sometimes he just growled in front of the pedestrians.
This thing has made him San
Francisco’s favorite entertainer. People can be seen watching him scare the
tourists. He calls himself an entertainer.
But, not everyone loves him. In
2004, the police department received many complaints against him. And he was
put on for a four-day trial, but then he was acquitted; since then, there have
been no charges against him.
In 1999, Bushman also had hired a
bodyguard, Gregory Jacobs. They worked together for years. Apart from being his
bodyguard, Jacob also lets Bushman know who’s coming, as well as distract the
walkers before johnson jumped out. After Johnson entertains the walks, Jacob
would also ask the pedestrians to pay Johnson.
Jacob also claims that he earns
nearly $60,000 a year from his street antics.
How it all
started?
People might be wondering how he
came up with this idea. Before becoming a Bushman, Johnson worked as a shoe
shiner, and he started wearing some sort of costume to grab the attention of
more people and get more customers for his shoe-shining business. This idea
worked for him. And soon, all other shoe-shiners copied his idea and started
wearing the same costume. And after that, he came up with the new design of
hiding behind bushes and jumping out at the pedestrians, and the rest is
history.
