Verboten Space/Downtown/Fri Feb 2/1:30 pm: Officer Chad McLaughlin writes: "At approximately 13:30 hours I conducted a premises check of the area under the Alaskan Way viaduct in the 2000 and 2100 block. This is a no-admittance area with posted 'No Trespassing' signs. There are several signs posted in English and Spanish, indicating there is no trespassing in this area [even if you speak Spanish!]." Officer Chad McLaughlin found two men in this restricted space and contacted them. He writes: "[I asked] what they were doing. [Suspect one] said they had just gone into the no-trespassing area to drink beer outside of public view. I pointed to the 'No Trespassing' sign and said, 'Do you know you are not supposed to be down here [even if you speak Spanish]?'" Officer Chad McLaughlin arrested the offenders and booked them into King County Jail.

Hamburger Space/First Hill/Sun Feb 4/ 4:30 pm: At this very moment, a McDonald's manager has in his back pocket a violation order against a certain woman. What happened is this: The woman was a tenant in a building he manages when he is not managing a McDonald's. For reasons not explained in the report, he evicted her. She then began harassing him, and he obtained an anti-harassment order that required her to stay 500 feet away from him. This order is in effect until October 6, 2001. Today, the 'female suspect' (who wore dark pants and a dark shirt) walked into 'the complainant's' workplace (McDonald's) and hurled insults at her former building manager. She breached his law-protected space! He called the cops. She split. An area check for the space violator came up with negative results. The building manager and fast-food employee stated that he was very frightened of this dark woman because "her blatant violation [of his space] in a public place made [him] think that she will escalate to violence."

Honking Space/West Seattle/Sun Feb 4/ 4:47 pm: Today, a man, whom we shall call Mr. Hayes, pulled up to a house on 48th Ave SW in a red car and began honking. A man inside the home, whom we shall call Mr. Mays, ran to his living room window and saw that the horn honker was his neighbor, Mr. Hayes. Mr. Hayes waved at Mr. Mays from his car and then parked down the road and walked into his home. This seemingly harmless incident was in fact a violation of a 'Civil Harassment Order' that Mr. Mays placed on Mr. Hayes and his entire family (Mrs. Hayes and Junior Hayes, who is 18 years old). Mr. Mays called the cops. After listening to his complaints, the officers walked next door to confront Mr. Hayes.

Mrs. Hayes answered the door, and when asked about her husband's whereabouts, slammed the door in their faces. After patrolling the streets for an amount of time not disclosed in the report, the cops spotted Mr. Hayes eating at the Skipper's on California and SW Erskine. They stopped, entered the restaurant, approached his table, and asked him about the honking. Putting his fried-fish food down, he explained that he drove by Mr. Mays' house but did not honk. The cops rejected his story and handcuffed his greasy hands. He was then transported to King County Jail and charged for "violation of harassment order #YO-4281."

A Theory of Space/Downtown/Mon Feb 5/ 1 pm: Today, a man violated a trespass admonishment that was issued against him on October 31, 2000, and, as a consequence, he was thrown into jail. Now, jail is a form of punishment that confines the offender to a very limited space, and trespass admonishment space is one that gives offenders the whole world, but denies them access to one limited space (a home, the invisible radius around a person, an area under a viaduct). Therefore, we may conclude that the nature of jail space is to lock you in, whereas the nature of trespass admonishment space is to lock you out.