A man mistaken for a woman was punched at a downtown bus stop last Sunday, a Seattle police report says. At around 7:40 p.m., the suspect “began propositioning and attempted to touch” the man at the bus stop on Pike Street. When the victim protested, the suspect “appeared to realize that the victim was male.”
The victim told police that the suspect walked away, but “almost immediately came back and accused [the victim] of ‘Trying to make me look like a predator’ adding, ‘I should punch you in the face,'” the report says.
The victim “tried to downplay” the situation and told the man “not to worry about it,” but the the man followed through with his threat and “struck him in the face with a closed fist,” leaving “a visible scratch mark,” according to the report. The victim’s glasses were broken “beyond repair” during the assault. “After the assault and destroying glasses,” the report says, the suspect “tried to hug” the victim.
Police arrested the suspect, who was under active Department of Corrections supervision, with the provision of not using alcohol. The suspect’s blood alcohol content was recorded at .251 at 8:50 p.m., over an hour after the assault occurred.
The only one making that suspect “look like a predator” is the suspect himself.
Geez. That type of behaviour is unexceptable regardless of the sex or gender of the victim.
Remember kids: Homophobia hurts heteros too. If you vote against gay rights, who knows? Maybe one day you’ll get punched in the face because a drunk man is afraid that he might be gay. You’ll only have yourself to blame.
Well, yourself and the drunk guy.
holy crap. .251!
Yeah, something tells me that dude knew the victim was a guy.
I remember the harmless old days of 2008, when Tig Notaro could walk down her sidewalk, and have a man remark, “Oh, so those are little titties. I thought you was a man!”
i could care less about what happened, im just blown away by his BAC.
“.25: All mental, physical, and sensory functions are severely impaired. You’re emotionally numb. There’s an increased risk of asphyxiation from choking on vomit and of seriously injuring yourself by falling or other accidents.”
he must have rolled a natural 20 to even land that punch in the first place.
And, of course, the dress and high heels the victim was wearing had nothing to do with it. . . .
Seriously, it sounds like the perp was too sloshed for his own good. Remind me again why alcohol is a legal drug.
So how much does one have to drink to be at .251? I can’t imagine even being able to walk.
Let’s see, if .08 is 4 drinks then .251 is … woo hoo!
I can’t imagine that the guy could walk or swing his fist without spinning around several times and falling down. You gotta love how he tried to make up for his actions though. “Now that I’ve punched you in the face and destroyed your glasses, I need a HUG!”
Maybe this guy was the friend of the trashed woman who got sexually assaulted? Sounds like they split a bottle of Bacardi 151 between them and chased it with Everclear.
Wow. .251 over an hour later. This guy was barley able to stand, much less determine a stranger’s gender.
Is “under active Department of Corrections supervision” synonymous with “on parole”, or is there a distinction?
@13 I bet he’ll be HOPping back to jail anytime now.
He’s got a little spring water in his step. Or branch water.
He should be on the rocks. Guess he doesn’t want a twist.
after the assault…the suspect “tried to hug” the victim.
This is horrible and the suspect is dick and all, but I nevertheless found this expression of remorse kind of touching.
Wow. What a city. Amuses me to no end whatsoever.
By the way, visiting Seattle this week for an old-times reunion of my old stomping ground has proved every bit as entertaining — maybe more so — as anticipated.
I’ll miss the warm, colourful El Niño fun. I’ll miss Dragonstooth stouts and good Aquavit. I won’t miss that wtf-it-looks-like-a-bbq-omg flailing its arms at people to buy a fucking Real Change newspaper.
@ Will in Seattle: Q: If .08 is 4 drinks, then .251 is (fill in the blank).
A: If 4 drinks is .08, then .251 is 12 and a half drinks plus a splash. But that was and hour later so about one once was metabolized during the hour.
Which means the guy drank the equivalent 13 and a half drinks before went to the bus stop, plus one an hour for each hour since he started drinking that day.
Well I can see why he was told to stay away from alcohol.
I was maybe 10 feet away when this happened. I was facing the other way, so I didn’t realize the guy got hit or had his glasses broken. I just heard the homeless man (suspect) being obnoxious and bothering him. After the kid walked away the suspect harassed my friend and I (females), and kept doing this weird thing where he would blow his nasty beer breath in our faces and would try to get really close to us. He was stumbling, muttering to himself, and kept pulling out the tall boys he had in each pocket. We repeatedly told him to leave us alone without much success when the bus arrived and he was subsequently detained. I was so glad he was arrested. It was clear that his first victim wasn’t going to be the only one that night. He was ridiculously wasted, appeared to have mental health issues, and was looking for trouble.
Hey, .251 is not that hard to pull off. It takes a little training and dedication, but you can work up to it. I would not advise that you just attempt it at once, because that could kill you. Spend some time, work on your tolerance and it should not be a problem.
So he punched her/him, and they hugged her/him? Sounds like he had some ambivalent feelings about something.
Well, we LGBT always stand in one line. “We do support each other to get more rights just as equal as others..” said on the forum of _Bimingle…com__ Anyway, we will get and learn more from it. Hope the world is beautiful for LGBT too.