No More Kinko's/Capitol Hill/Sun Sept 5/2:00 am: Officer Moore reports that late tonight a man named "Williams walked into Kinko's [on Broadway Avenue East] to do some copying." He soon noticed that, despite there being copy machines, computers, furniture, and cash registers, there were "no employees in the business." Again and again he called for assistance, but no one appeared from a surprise side door, or suddenly stood behind the counter. The lights were on but no one was in the building. He called the police and informed them of this "suspicious circumstance."
Williams stayed in the Kinko's until the police arrived (evidently, he really wanted to make those copies). Officer Moore reports, "I arrived and contacted Williams. He was the only one in the business. I decided to contact the manager of Kinko's and request that he come to the business [and clear up this matter]. I and Mr. Williams [stood in the workerless Kinko's waiting] for the manager."
One room in hell must look just like this: A confused police officer and an anxious customer eternally waiting for someone (something, anything, to happen) in a deserted but brightly-lit, fully furnished Kinko's.
Ultimately, the manager arrived and informed Mr. Williams and Officer Moore "that the store's door should have been locked and that Kinko's had long vacated the premises and reopened in another location."
The Bridge of Desire/Ballard/Mon Sept 13/2:46 am: Officer McClain reports: "The witness was driving northbound on the Ballard Bridge. As he was driving he observed a male standing on the bridge as if he were going to jump off. The witness continued northbound until he could make a U-turn, and then drove back to where he had seen the male. When the witness arrived at the place he had seen the male, the male was gone. The witness did not see the male anywhere on the bridge, and did not feel that the male had enough time to have done anything but jump off the bridge.
The witness called 911, reporting that he had seen a male jump off the bridge. SPD and SFD responded to the scene, each with their respective dive units. Nothing was found on the [dark] surface of the [cold] water, so SFD deployed their divers and did an area check under the water. Nothing was found and the search was called off. The male was described by the witness as white, in his mid-20s, with blond hair, wearing blue overalls and no shoes. The incident was screened with Sgt. O'Neill, Lt. Tamayo, and Capt. Byers. I believe this jumper exists nowhere else but in the head of the witness. A psychoanalyst, not divers, would have finally found in the warm erotic depths of the witness' mind a man "in his mid-20s, with blond hair, wearing blue overalls and no shoes."
