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Oh Blood Brother Where Art Thou? Monday, July 28 2008

Tim "Youngblood" Chapman, the man Dog has called his "blood brother" for over 20 years, is gone from the show. There's been no official statement from the network concerning his absence, though Tim is no longer part of the show's opening credits and Tim's page is gone from the official Dog the Bounty Hunter Website. Rumors are that he may just taking a year off to deal with personal issues.

Tim separated from his wife Davina in late 2007 and was allegedly living in his truck for a time. On 5 January 2008, a security guard responded to a report of a man fondling himself in a vehicle in Honolulu mall parking lot. The guard recognized the man as Tim Chapman from the television series “Dog the Bounty Hunter” and instructed Chapman to put his clothes on and step out of the vehicle. According to the guard, Chapman then jumped to the front, got in the driver’s seat and allegedly accelerated the truck, jumping the curb onto the sidewalk. The security guard had to leap out of the way.

Tim's lawyer, Brook Hart, said the incident was a misunderstanding. Tim spilled juice or soda on his pants and went to the back seat of his truck, which has dark tinted windows, to change his pants when security guards started yelling at him to get out. He said Chapman, to avoid negative publicity, made the mistake of attempting to drive away. Hart said he had no intent of terrorizing or threatening anyone. “It was simply a man who wet his pants with orange juice inadvertently and was changing them, doing nothing wrong at all and believing he had sufficient privacy to do it,” Hart said.