not only is Leavenworth on fire, but so are the Olympics, and there's a fire up at the end of the Chiwawa River - no Spider Meadow, no Buck Creek Pass. I am saddened.

"^Have You Seen This Thief?" when did we jettison the journalistic ethic to stick "alleged" prior to a suspect being convicted? ("But you can actually see him stealing $#@!, you @#$!!" ...perhaps, but crazier misinterpretations of video evidence has happened. Yet i guess a more proper answer is that some sense of the "golden age of journalism" is not really applicable)

@3 I totally agree.

One reason is that guy looks a little like me (twenty years ago) and probably looks like hundreds of dudes in Seattle. These shitty blurry surveillance photos are not very helpful, generally.

PS. And in 2016 why do we not have high-resolution Surveillance cameras!

First sentence of "pledge" story needs the "if" removed to make sense.

@4

Still not enough. It also needs a "may" or a "can" after "they."

@3 .....We do have HD cameras. They are mandated for cannabis businesses. They are quite expensive....

@2 you'd put "alleged" if you were attaching any identification to the video. But I don't think it's unreasonable to say there was a theft, this guy is in the video inside the locked space during the theft, this guy (whoever that guy is) is a thief or at best an accomplice. Assuming those are known facts.

When newspapers start calling a theft an "alleged theft", that's ridiculous.

@3 high-res cameras: I'm not an expert on the hardware but I think part of the problem is the usual low lighting. It takes a big piece of silicon to catch enough light to form a lot of pixels that aren't just noise.

But eh, some phone cameras nowadays are better at low light than a D70 was, so maybe I'm out of date...

Read the KUOW refuge story, y'all.