So upset was Jason Errol Chapman about a man cutting the cord to his kite, that he struck the man’s vehicle, damaging it in the process.His actions will cost him just over $2 700 – the amount he has to pay in compensation to avoid going to jail.When he appeared in the District ‘A’ Magistrates Court on Monday, the 38-year-old resident of Block 7A, Neptune Road, Deacons Farm, St Michael, pleaded guilty to damaging a motor van belonging to John Paul Jones on January 7, 2023, without lawful excuse.In giving the facts, prosecutor Constable Ralph Rollock said the two men have a history of conflict.He said on the mentioned date, Jones and another man went to Brandons Beach, St Michael to look for a kite that had been generating noise. They eventually found it and cut its cord.Chapman, the owner of the kite, saw when Jones severed the cord. In retaliation, he struck the vehicle which Jones was driving with an object that was in his hand. After realising the van had been hit, Jones got out and saw Chapman throw a rock that struck the vehicle.
