On February 24, around 9:15 p.m., Seattle police responded to a call that two men were fighting on the 1600 block of Boylston Avenue, according to a police report. Officers arrived on the scene and noticed that both men had injuries to the area around their eyes.
One of the men reportedly told police that “while walking northbound, the suspect approached him, said, ‘I’m gonna kick your ass,’ and leapt on his back.” He sustained multiples blows to his chest and face, while he responded by punching the suspect “several times in the face in self-defense.”
But the suspect had a different, and more interesting, account.
The suspect told officers that he was “attempting to climb a fence to get at a bindle of heroin, he fell, and poked his eyes on the spikes lining the top of the fence,” the police report says. The fence-climbing suspect told officers that other man attempted to help him off the fence and, believing he was being robbed from behind, “elbowed victim in the face.”
Although the police could not locate any heroin in the area, the man who was climbing the fence for heroin was arrested for assault.
There are two lessons to be learned from this: (1) If you’re a heroin user, and you want to stash your drugs: keep them close to the ground; (2) If you’re a good samaritan, and you see someone dangling on a fence: leave them be.
He was hanging from a fence by his eyes? Ouch.
The lesson I took away was: If you’re a heroin user who randomly attacked some stranger on the street, come up with an excuse that doesn’t admit to the cops that you use heroin.
First of all, what the fuck is a bindle?
@3,
I believe it’s what hobos carry when they’re on the road — their worldly possessions wrapped up in cloth and attached to a stick (more or less). I can’t begin to imagine how that applies to heroin; wouldn’t that be carried in small plastic baggies?
You guys crack me up. You have a computer, which gives you access to just about all the information that’s known to man, and yet typing “bindle” into a Google search bar is apparently too difficult. (Pay particular attention to the search results that say they’re drug-related.)