Has someone left a flyer like this on your property? Let us know.
Has someone left a flyer like this on your property? Let us know. Courtesy Photo

After catching a bus home from a meeting with feminist organizers in Queen Anne on the night of April 24, a Capitol Hill resident discovered a slip of paper on the windshield of her car. The car was parked on 10th Avenue East, just north of Broadway Avenue, and from a distance, she thought the paper was a parking ticket, she told The Stranger.

But rather than a fine, she found a threatening flyer, which read: "ABORTION SEWER, YOUR WOMB IS A TOMB. BY THE GRACE OF GOD, YOU'LL BE DEAD SOON."

Suddenly, a parking ticket didn't sound so bad.

The Capitol Hill resident, who wished to remain anonymous for safety reasons, said she had trouble sleeping the night she found the note.

"There's a huge difference between 'I have to be cheaper on dinners for a week' [to pay a parking fine] and 'Oh shit, I feel personally threatened and creeped out,'" she said. "It was a very disconcerting experience."

"I don't think it was about me personally, even though I do work with cultural analysis and making spaces more inclusive," she said. "I can't imagine that there are a lot of people who would associate me with my car. So I have to assume it was the pro-feminist bumper stickers."

The stickers stuck on the woman's bumper don't say anything about abortion, although she believes in "women's right to choose and women having full autonomy over themselves." The bumper stickers that she did have on her car—"Clinton Kaine 2016" and "Well-behaved women seldom make history"—were pretty "bland," she said.

After posting about her discovery on Facebook, the Capitol Hill resident called the Seattle Police Department's non-emergency number. (She also submitted a report using the Documenting Hate form, which was how The Stranger reached her.)

In a police report, SPD officers noted that they "attempted to locate other vehicles in the area with this note on them but [were] unable to find any."

An SPD spokesperson said they encourage anyone who has felt threatened by hateful flyers, graffiti, or vandalism to call the department's non-emergency phone number at 206-625-5011.

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