This is what Bruce said would be his defence for crimes he has committed. The guy in the picture looks a lot Bruce, and he wore his hair in dreads locks for a favorite Halloween party a number of years ago, the picture of him and Anthony (partner) still sits on the cabinet with the CD collections.
Bruce uses the tree incident as a possible defence, but from the sounds of his speech, it didn't travel very far. When referring of him as a 'flake', he stopped and began a series of questioning connected with a report of him doing this same as the article...same location, Florida.