Last Tuesday, a Nordstrom employee went out for a smoke break on 6th Avenue; she “lit her cigarette and the suspect approached her and put his face right in front of her face and asked for a light,” a Seattle police report says. She said she didn’t have a light, so the suspect asked for a cigarette, but she refused to give him one. According to the police report, the man then “became very upset and cocked his hand back as if he was going to hit her,” so she pulled her head back so only the man’s fingertips hit her. The man started to run southbound, but when he heard her yelling to the “valet guys” to call 911, the woman said he came at her again, calling her a “bitch” and a “cunt”.
The woman said she tried to run across the street to the “valet guys,” but there were too many cars, so she “stood on the sidewalk and braced herself as the suspect approached her,” the report continues. She told police that the suspect “again got right in her face and this time spit in her face.” The man, according to the report, escaped southbound on 6th Avenue. The report says, the suspect “had blond hair and was wearing a gray zipper hoodie and green baggy cargo pants” and “had a very noticeable bruise under his left eye.”
this is why you should stop smoking
obviously we need to crack down on the demon weed tobacco and lock up the addicts who use it.
right?
I’m sure there’s a good reason why she didn’t kick him in the nuts – I’m just having a hard time figuring out what it was.
…and the loony left wants us to be responsible for this POS?
“I’m just having a hard time figuring out what it was.”
Maybe she didn’t want to be assaulted or killed by one of the hundreds of POS and bums who roam freely downtown?
Maybe you need to meet some women who’ve been threatened like this, ask them why they were such ‘pussies’ and don’t just slug one of these assholes who’ve taken over downtown…..fucking idiot.
The amount of human trash at that intersection has increased quite heavily over the last year or so. The population level of tweaked out, aggressive panhandling gutter punks with diarrhea squirting pitbulls is out of control.
And we wonder if retail will ever come back to downtown Seattle…gee, it’s such a nice place to be!
Anyone else notice that it’s reverting back to the way it was 15-17 years ago?
And that is why I don’t go downtown anymore. We need to buy these scumbags a one way ticket out of town, or move social services to SODO and keep them contained there.
At this rate the retail core is about two years away from looking like pioneer square.
@7 – yeah, give it time, soon we’ll have those alleyways that smell of pee and the cast off burnt mattresses again.
That’s when the music comes back.
So, this is just like those other stories where some guy walks up, asks for something, gets shot down then punches the person in the face, right? So, maybe someone should figure out who this guy is before punching strangers in the face turns into raping and/or killing them.
I think Guiliani is looking for a job…
@4:
The “looney lefts” way of taking responsibility for the POS’ as you call them, was to make sure they received treatment, and if necessary, institutionalization. It was your dear, sainted Ronald Reagan who put the crazies out onto the street more than 20 years ago, in the process of gutting federal funding for social and mental health services across the country.
Oh, and yeah, we’d try to fund it at the local level, only people like you get your underoos in a knot anytime anybody even mentions paying for these services.
So, these are your options: you can either pay to keep these people medicated and/or institutionalized, or you can not pay to keep them on the streets. What you can’t do is bitch about the latter, if you’re unwilling to do the former.
Yes @12 Comte.
When I was young, I’d read crime stories and think “boy, there are really bad people in the World.”
Now, I read stories like this and I think “where’s our mental health system?” We talk about a homeless problem as though housing is the issue. We talk about a crime problem as though crime is the issue. We talk about drug abuse as though drugs are the problem.
We have a mental health crisis that plays out on our streets over and over. Throwing more cops at it doesn’t fix it. Likely, the fix is complicated. But, don’t we owe it to ourselves to actually try to get at THE PROBLEM and not just brush over it or past it?
Instead of roving cops, how about roving mental health specialists?
@13 move em out, get them help, just fucking do SOMETHING.
Nothing will be done until a tourist gets stabbed. God knows nothing happened back when that poor girl got murdered on New Years Eve.
For $40 a pack, can you blame her?
Why is “valet guys” repeated throughout this post? Is that term somehow significant?
@16: it was just the language of the report. Not particuraly relevant.
@7: Some things never change: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h-scpQ_s…
Sorry, malformed link. Type in Streetwise Seattle on youtube. Streetwise is a documentary about downtown Seattle’s homeless made in the early 80’s. You’ll notice very little difference how Seattle was like then to how it is now.
YOUR URB HAS DECAYED!
Seattle’s homeless have definitely gotten more aggressive lately. The same homeless woman has called me a “white bitch” on two separate occasions for not giving her any money, which of course just vindicates my decision not to give her, or anyone else, anything.
“That’s when the music comes back.”
Yes, and hipsters can put shot guns in their mouths. That I will celebrate.
The reason we have bums on the streets has nothing to do with Reagan and everything to do with the looney’s so called right not to be locked up involuntarily like we did in the good old days.
Functional Addict vs Dysfunctional Addict
It’s so sad when addicts don’t get along.
…cigarette tax cut, anyone? Eyman? Republicans? …hack, hack, wheeze.
I fucking HATE working down there… I fucking HATE working down there… I fucking HATE IT. It’s been five years now and it’s scarier every day. Scarier even thought I relocated from a job on 3rd and Pine (hell) to one farther away from the center of the mess. They’re aggressive and I don’t give out money and I’m convinced as a small woman I’m going to get jumped someday. I feel like nothing can be done about it, though.