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At a north-end grocery, a 15-year-old
muffed his efforts to steal a bottle of wine. Upset, he charged toward an
employee with a knife and ran out the front door where, in short order he 1)
dropped the wine bottle, 2) got spritzed in the face by a customer carrying pepper
spray and 3) ran into the road where he was 4) hit by a car. He ended up at
Harborview and the Youth
Service Center,
where he was booked for investigation of robbery.
At a West Seattle
sporting goods store, a man was |
Suspicions grew at the scene
of a “natural death” when folks from the Medical Examiner’s office 1) were
surprised by the position of the body and
2) found a puncture would in the elbow of the victim—who was known to be a drinker
but not a drug user. Witnesses hemmed and hawed
when asked simple questions about what had happened, especially after officers
found a syringe and bloody gauze in a backyard trash can. But what really seemed to concern some bystanders was how the pro's |
Describing a fleeing car-prowl suspect, a witness said,
“He’s a white male, 6’4”, with long dark hair and a dark beard…. He had the
whole Jesus look going.”
U-District officers
got a tip about a guy selling marijuana. "He's easy to find," said
the tipster. "Just look for the guy walking around with a bright blue
Grover doll." (Poor Grover's innards had to be confiscated and destroyed.)
Tending to a severely beaten
victim in Lake City, a medic noticed a lump in
the |
“Intoxicated, incoherent, loud, and belligerent." This is how
officers described a north-end woman. Her macaw parrot obviously concurred--he had covered her hands and arms with bites,
scratches and bruises. The woman was treated at Northwest Hospital.
The bird went to the vet's office with a bloody beak.
At 5th and Virginia, a man jumped into the middle of the road, yelling that someone was after him with a gun. He then leaped into a passing truck, said, "I need your ear," and
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A video from a Seattle Police
Department decoy car
shows a would-be car thief in action. After several failed attempts to start the
vehicle, the man gives up in disgust. Except for the hidden video recorder,
there was nothing special about the car. No hidden gadgets. No missing plugs or
wires. It seems that he simply wasn’t familiar with manual transmissions and
didn’t realize that he needed to depress the clutch to start the engine. Tired of his daughter’s light-fingered ways, a West
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Q. When did the Alki officer know a
suspect was lying about
his identity?
A. When the man claimed he was born on February 31st.
In North Admiral, a convicted sexual offender pulled up the window blinds so that he could wave hello to some female passersby. He did not, however pull up his pants. Nor did he wave with his hands....
On Queen Anne, a man climbed aboard the #18 bus, turned to a blind woman who
was sitting nearby and said, “The sick must die.” He then balled |
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Two art lovers came into The Lusty Lady peep emporium on First Avenue and grabbed an erotic
painting from the wall. An employee gave chase and was able to retrieve the
canvas despite being shoved to the ground by one of the suspects. Though the would-be
thieves weren’t captured, they are now starring in their own special video show on the Lusty Lady's security system.
Batten down the matches: When a boat fire off Shilshole turned out to be a
mechanical problem, the Harbor Patrol
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