What happens when thieves get their hands on your bike: "Look hard enough in nearly any neighborhood and you’re bound to see the lonely skeleton of a bicycle stripped to the frame like a carcass," writes Casey Jaywork. "Downtown has a high concentration (one reported theft per day during the first half of August), as do the U-District and Fremont, but the locations of bike thefts are literally all over the map, with no part of the city left untouched. And it’s probably going to get worse. The city is pouring as much as half a billion dollars into bicycle infrastructure over the next two decades in hopes of thinning auto traffic and pollution. A boost in cycling plus growing economic inequality equals a situation primed for increased bike theft." Which means more parts for the thriving stolen-bike underground.

Fines for the First Hill Streetcar manufacturer: Seattle's new streetcar is now delayed by, among other things, a shortage of brakes available to the people in the Czech Republic who are putting the streetcars together. Capitol Hill Seattle reports that'll cost the Czech company: "The six streetcars for the First Hill line were supposed to be ready by October 7th as per the $26.7 million contract with SDOT. An SDOT spokesperson told CHS that Inekon will pay $25,000 after the first day of delay and $1,000 per day thereafter."

North Seattle burglary ring broken up: "One of four people arrested for a web of North Seattle burglaries, thefts and fraud told police that unwrapping stolen packages was 'like opening Christmas presents,'" reports the Seattlepi.com. "Christmas is over for the foursome, who have been arrested in connection with mail theft, car theft, identity theft and burglaries in the University District and Green Lake areas this year."

Western Washington has a new US attorney: Jenny Durkan is moving on to... something? We don't know, but we do know that Annette L. Hayes is now the acting US attorney here. As the Seattle Times reports, she used to prosecute "cyberhacking and intellectual property cases."

Support for Hong Kong protesters in Seattle: More than 100 people showed up for a rally at the University of Washington's Red Square yesterday.

Boeing still unhappy with union leadership: A new round in an old feud. (Apparently, not even a $9 billion subsidy from Washington State can calm this thing down.)

Safeway employee stabs supsected shoplifter: In Bellevue, reports the Seattlepi.com, which adds that the suspect "is at Harborview Medical Center with life-threatening injuries."

Monorail! Still! As you may have heard, it's back on the ballot this fall in the form of Seattle Citizen Petition No. 1, which directs money toward planning a Ballard-West Seattle line.

Pimp sues Nike for his troubles: And, after his day in court, loses: "Sirgiorgio Sanford Clardy is a pimp and is serving a 100-year sentence in an Oregon prison for, among other crimes, stomping on the face of a john who tried to skip out on paying for sex. Who gets the blame for his long stretch behind bars? ... Clardy, 27, sued Nike—he was wearing Air Jordans at the time of the stomping."

The virtual reality biz: A number of Seattle companies are hoping those weird-looking headsets will create a new gold rush.

Meanwhile, in Texas: Up to 100 people were potentially exposed to Ebola by one patient, but "none are symptomatic."