Late last Saturday night, a man at the Fremont bar 9 Million in Unmarked Bills (which Jen Graves reported on here) allegedly made sexual contact with a very drunk woman while friends took pictures, a Seattle police report says.
On February 21 at around 1:15 a.m., officers found a woman in the bar “who was so intoxicated that she could not tell me what her name was, she could not hold herself in an upright seated position, and she did not know where she was” and vomited “several times in succession,” police records show. Witnesses said that “she had fallen and possibly struck her head.”
One witness told officers that “she saw [a man] attempting to make out with [the woman]. It appeared the man had “pulled [the woman’s] shirt down and appeared to be licking and or sucking [the woman’s] nipples,” the report says. Other witnesses told police that “several of [the man’s] friends were watching and taking photographs with their cell phones of the incident.”
A bouncer had tried break up the activity, but a man “punched him in the face, splitting his lip and causing him to bleed” and then “tried to leave with his friends in one of the two cabs stopped on scene.”
The alleged nipple-licker was arrested placed under investigation of “indecent liberties,” and the alleged lip puncher was arrested for “assault,” police say. “Several cell phones were confiscated and placed into evidence,” the report concludes. Police believe “that several photographs were taken on these cell phones and may have been deleted while officers were attempting to contain and control the scene.”
I’ve been presuming all of the douchebags drunk-drive home from Fremont.
they do. prior to moving, almost every one of the people on my street had someone drive into their car.
dead right about lack of adequate transportation – but the fact you can’t even get to ballard from fremont without changing buses during the day is equally retarded.
When someone is too intoxicated to consent, that is sexual assault.
Period.
End of story.
@51,
Metro has a silly little thing called the 46. Shilshole Bay to downtown Fremont via downtown Ballard, but only hourly and only between 9:15 AM and 3:15 PM. Kind of pointless, right?
The rest of the time, the 17 is perfectly reliable (drops you on the other side of the Fremont bridge, but at least there’s no transfer involved). But that one stops running 90 minutes before the Fremont bars close and Nectar/High Dive shows end. And they JUST cut evening inbound (from Ballard) service on it for kicks!
I am with Irena and Kersy. Having experienced both, I’d choose being punched in the face every single time. It is easier to recover from a random act of violence in my opinion.
@51 – 46 bus route.
28 bus route.
Use em.
in 92 percent of the incidents in which i was sexually assaulted or molested as an adult, my alcohol consumption played a large role. in fact, strangely, i have not found myself in a bar with my shirt around my neck and a strange man sucking my nipples (and that really did happen) since i stopped drinking. imagine!
@ 38
They did, in the definitions section of the statute.
(4) “Mental incapacity” is that condition existing at the time of the offense which prevents a person from understanding the nature or consequences of the act of sexual intercourse whether that condition is produced by illness, defect, the influence of a substance or from some other cause.
Will @55,
I am BEGGING you to PLEASE stop giving “advice” about a public transit system that you CLEARLY never use.
If, rather, than looking at Metro’s master system map and conveniently noticing a line between Fremont and Ballard, you had bothered to look at an actual 46 SCHEDULE — or if you had, say, read my post on the 46 just TWO POSTS BEFORE YOUR RESPONSE — you would know that the 46 to downtown Fremont is a pointless, hourly, midday-only service.
And the 28 only goes halfway.
Can you PLEASE occasionally use your brain before posting?
It’s really sad that so many people are focusing on the level on the woman’s level of intoxication. If she were robbed when she was drunk would so much blame be put on her? The crime was committed by the group of guys, lets keep that in mind.
Disorientation and vomiting can also be signs of a concussion. She had recently hit her head…
Chiming in as another who has experienced both severe beatings and been sexually assaulted, I’ll take the punch in the face. And Marci, it is indeed sad but not surprising that many are focusing on this woman’s actions instead of on those of the perpetrators. It’s a common self defense mechanism. The idea is to distance oneself from the scary situation by finding some reason that the victim is complicit, if not out right to blame, for what has befallen them. “If only she had been smart (like I would have been) then this would not have happened to her, and since I would have been smart (unlike her) it won’t happen to me or some one I love (because they would be smart like me as well), so now I feel better and can believe that universe is not random.” Too bad it doesn’t work like that.
Personally I hope the men responsible are prosecuted to the full extent of the law, and if that includes ending up on a sex offender registry then boo fuckin’ hoo. Maybe if they hadn’t gotten so drunk, or hadn’t gone out to get drunk they might have avoided alllllllllllll this trouble.
Typical bull favoring the woman as usual. Had it been a man that was that drunk, he would be in jail charged with a crime. Since when is it illegal to make out and suck on a drunk girls nipple? If a drunk man was getting a blow job in public I can sure bet that it’s not the girl who gets in trouble for sucking it, it would be him for having it out. I bet she skated from the whole incident without a single charge, and will likely probably get money out of it! Kids, it pays to be an irresponsible slut! In high school I had 3 friends that got caught having sex in the back of an SUV with blacked out windows, the girl who was caught with TWO men inside her wasn’t even cited for so much as a ticket, but the two men were taken to jail. Equality at it’s finest.