In an effort to start again, Ethan “ModBoy” Bramble is receiving laser surgery on his face. Bramble has more than 200 tattoos covering his body.
However, the new dad did confess that he felt remorse for the scorn he had received from others due to his peculiar hobbies.
“I guess you could say I regret some tattoos. Not just regret, I think there’s a difference between regret and wanting to be perceived differently,” he confessed.
Ethan continued by saying that he is anxious about going about his day-to-day life, such as bringing his little daughter to school, without fear of criticism.
Also, he hinted that he wouldn’t want his kid to follow in his footsteps and get a face tattoo when he was young.
“I wish that I had not gone as hectic as I did on my face.”
“I started getting it done because of the anxiety and stuff I was getting… Mental stuff is a funny thing to pin down, but I want to think that a lot of the anxiety was from just having a face full of tattoos.
“I’m happy with the way that I look, but I’m also happy with the mentality that over the next two years, my face tattoos are going to become less and less and less. I’m just clearing the canvas.”
On Wednesday, the Victorian Police said that they had issued a warrant for his arrest, stating that Bramble was well-known to visit the Preston, Windsor, Ringwood, and CBD areas of Melbourne.
However, Bramble, who hails from the Central Coast of New South Wales, claimed he was no longer in Victoria and that he didn’t anticipate being extradited by police. Bramble initially made fun of the police by joking about his arrest warrant: “I’ve never once seen him in my life.”
Hours later, the 23-year-old seemed to mock police once more by live-broadcasting a video on Instagram in which he expressed uncertainty about whether or not to report for duty. The young father pondered that if he ran away to NSW, he didn’t think he would be extradited back to Victoria.
Being a well-known but controversial member of the ‘Blokes and Their Ice-Creams’ Facebook page, the highly tattooed man is wanted for what he said: ‘Nananana you’ll never catch me. Cream of the bros.
While certain members promptly chastised Bramble for his purported offenses, others urged him to ‘cream on’ and elude detection.
“Well, now you know where I live,” he grinned at the camera.
He addressed the almost 200-person audience, saying, “I smoke too much, I drink too much, I don’t want to go to jail,” before ending the livestream on Wednesday.
“Hopefully I don’t get life in prison, later crew.”
Modboy previously garnered media attention when he appeared on Studio 10 and displayed his most recent body alterations, which included a silicon spider embedded beneath the flesh of his hand. He said that the physical changes will make him “the coolest grandpa ever” to the Studio 10 hosts.
At the age of eleven, Bramble experimented with body modification by stretching his ears and became fascinated with tattoos.
Bramble asserts that he has undergone over 40 physical changes.