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by Charles Mudede

Krazy Kat/Capitol Hill/Mon Dec 22/3:07 am: Soon after the victim in this terrible report, a 64-year-old woman, quit her job as a babysitter for the suspect and his girlfriend, someone began harassing her in various ways. She later found out from "the suspect's girlfriend that the suspect was the individual responsible for the harassment." The victim then obtained an order of protection, listing the suspect as the respondent (the order expires on "12-17-2005"). However, the order has not helped much, since she has been harassed periodically since it was issued. Buzzing about her day-to-day life like menacing wasps, one of these harassments finally stung her last night.

Officer Dines writes: "Sometime between 2:30 and 3:00 am, the victim finished with her shower, and proceeded to put in her dentures. When she had finished putting them in, they immediately felt different, due to the fact that they would not move when she attempted to adjust them. She stated that she had to forcibly remove them, which caused her gums to bleed. Thinking that someone had tampered with her dentures, or with her denture cream, she checked the garbage can in the bathroom and found two small tubes of Krazy Glue, both of which appeared to have been used.

"[The victim] feels that the suspect entered her apartment when she was in the shower, and applied the glue to her dentures, or squeezed the glue into her denture cream tube. She does not know how the suspect gains entry into her apartment, but she feels that he does so periodically. No other evidence was found at the scene....

"2 small tubes of Krazy Glue found by the victim/complainant in her bathroom's garbage can were turned over to me, and I placed them into evidence."

And That's All Folks/Queen Anne/Sun Dec 21/9:25 am: An employee of Uptown Cinema was in the alley behind the theater when she found a dead man in its door's alcove. She called 911. Officer Jeffery Johnson reports: "Seattle Fire Department responded to the scene and did not attempt life-saving measures as the deceased's arms were raised in the air, he had obvious lividity to his face, and rigor mortis had set in. I was unable to identify the deceased at time of report, and the medical examiner responded to the scene and took custody of the deceased. Sgt. Fogassy screened this incident on scene." The one thing that amazes me about this report--outside of the seemingly incidental fact that Lost in Translation, Kill Bill, and In America were to be screened that day--is the image of the dead man's arms "raised in the air." It's somewhat old-fashioned or at least cartoonish to die on your back with arms "raised in the air."