From the comments at Captothehill:

We saw the whole thing go down. There was definitely less leaning and more falling. This was then followed by dudebro booking it across the street, running into the corner of the building and then directly into a tree. A bunch of the Quinns guys ran after him, but I have no idea if they caught up with him.

Mystery solved.

Jonah Spangenthal-Lee: Proving you wrong since 1983.

31 replies on ““Who Busted Quinn’s Front Window?””

  1. This is the second report in a year about a random window breaking in the vicinity of The Stranger’s offices. No more! No more! We can’t take this saturation coverage of important news events!

  2. A number of years back, I went through the window at Rudy’s while defending a friend who was assaulted. When you know you’re the one who’s gone through the plate glass window, it’s fairly embarrassing to walk by until all repairs are complete.

  4. Aww, I hope the assholes inside don’t get too cold while eating their foie gras and beef tongue. I’d rather pay the LDS church to eat their magic underpants than buy dinner at that ultra-regressive shithole. Could not have happened to a worse business. (Because there are none.)

  10. The location itself is not important. The royal jelly to be had is the running into the corner of a building and then a tree during the fleeing.

  14. @12: Yes. Most of the world gave up foie gras (force feeding animals with tubes, often until they die) near the end of the Roman Empire. They realized it was morally despicable — not to mention nearly 100% fat — before they even realized slavery and oppressing women was despicable. It recently resurfaced, mostly in France, as some sort of faux cultural purity (kind of like discrimination against brown people).

    Quinn’s serves a product that is banned in California and most of the EU for moral reasons. There are bills being considered in most of the other states and countries where people even consider selling it.

    To reiterate: Quinn’s sells products that are so morally repugnant, governments are having to specifically pass laws to ban it. How often does that happen?

  15. I was on the sidewalk outside when this happened. Not saying this is at all newsworthy, but it WAS shocking to see a floor-to-celling plate of glass shatter into giant shards simply because some drunk dude bounced into it. It looked like the guy got away–he was stumbly but way faster than the big dude who gave chase.

    Also, I hate Quinns. Overpriced, nasty, greasy food for the neuvo-riche.

  17. @11 Well shit, now you’ve piqued my curiosity.

    And by the way, just because most of the world gave up on something 2000 years ago doesn’t mean it’s bad. C’mon, stop being so judgmental.

  18. @16
    MMMMM Marrow Bones.

    Or are those too repugnant to eat jrrrl? I really want your opinion on what I eat. By the way, I watched that video you linked to, and all it made me want is some foie gras right now

  20. @ 14 – really? Do you have a link or something? I’m not trying to be snarky – I’m genuinely curious.

    Your argument that foie gras being made illegal is evidence that its production is immoral is a non-starter, though.

  21. Quinn’s sucks, if your purpose is to drink yourself to drunkard-town, because it’s horribly overpriced.

    Now please excuse me while I down this Rainier tall-boy, recently purchased on sale(!) at QFC for the price of 74 cents per pint. (Regular price 83 cent per pint.)

    You see, recession starts with R.

  22. @16, their marrow bones are wonderful (so are Smith’s). And Eric and Jocelyn and all the other great people there run a superb restaurant.

    They even have Grimbergen, FFS!

  23. @20, here are some links — there is plenty of more detail thru google.

    Foie gras history: http://www.knet.co.za/swfoiegras/history…
    Countries with foie gras bans: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foie_gras_c…
    Foie gras nutrition facts (note that’s for 1 tbsp): http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts/poult…

    @16, Some people watch videos of Marines throwing puppies off cliffs and want to enlist. Different strokes.

    People have different moralities — you can make an argument that torturing animals for fun or killing babies is morally okay. But, foie gras is on the extreme end of what you can morally do to animals for food.

    If you look at Quinn’s menu, I think it’s clear that they don’t even consider good taste in deciding what to serve, and their whole point is try to be exotic and push boundaries of what is acceptable. Foie gras, bone marrow, oxtail, beef tongue, fried frog legs, rabbit, wild boar, etc. I’m sure they’d serve monkey brain or panda thigh if they could get away with it.

  24. @20
    Many of the items on their menu are stuff that people have thrown away for years. The animals were killed just for the choice pieces. If we are going to eat animals why not eat everything?

  25. Quinn’s Kobe beef hamburger is non-pareil. Their bartenders are hot. The place is loud and incredibly busy. What’s not to like? How is Quinn’s so different from Smith where they serve equally politically incorrect food? The best thing about being human is that we have a choice in causing our own liver disease.

  26. @ 23 – none of those links says anything about people abandoning foie gras 2,000 years ago because they thought its production was immoral. Wikipedia says that it was eaten throughout the Middle Ages, by Jews as a kosher alternative to butter and as a delicacy.

  27. #25

    Kobe beef in hamburger format — are you kidding

    What silliness …. oh, yes, step up from the Big Mac

    What a concept in good eating

  28. @27
    If I am not mistaken it is Waygu beef from Snake River Farms. In other words, kobe beef grown in America. This also has to be the best burger in town

  29. @23: I feel like @24’s argument is a solid one — Couldn’t you also say they’re being like “the Native Americans” and “using every part of the animal?”

  30. UnoriginalAndrew, I can’t find any links right now about opinions of foie gras in Roman times, but it’s clear that for at least 1,000 years foie gras has been controversial. I’ll amend my statement that foie gras has been a moral outrage for at least 1,000 years: http://heebnvegan.blogspot.com/2005/11/j…

    @25/29: The thing that’s wrong with exotic or “rustic” meats like bunnies and bone marrow is that they expand the range of what morally questionable foods are socially acceptable to eat. We should be moving towards more sustainable and ethical foods, not moving towards more unsustainable and ethically questionable foods.

    Most meat eaters mostly eat a few parts of cows, pigs, and chickens. If we say it’s okay to expand to bone marrow and bunnies and frogs, we’re moving in the wrong direction. I mean, it’s obvious that eating pigs and chickens isn’t morally worse, in itself, than eating dogs and kittens and hummingbirds, but why in the world would we go that route? This applies to Smith as well as Quinn’s, but if I remember Smith’s menu isn’t quite as bad.

    That’s kind of beside the point, though. Foie gras is evil. Everything else is just disappointingly regressive.

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