It’s MLK Jr. Day! In unrelated celebrations, a Fremont pie shop, simply called Pie, is offering three mini pies for $3—today only—to celebrate the owner’s Golden Globe win (she helped edit Toy Story III) and South Seattle mothers celebrate getting their own monthly breastfeeding support group. (Sorry boob fetishists, babies only.) Hurrah!
Via West Seattle blog, family and friends of a West Seattle man who’s been missing since early Christmas morning will hold a candlelight vigil next Sunday to bring awareness to his disappearance outside of the Admiral Pub, the place he was last seen.
In other disappearances, where did the yellow traffic bumps in Maple Leaf go? Maple Leaf retirees want answers, and information from SDOT is not forthcoming. OUTRAGE! A bigger concern is, what do you even call those things? Turtles?
A U-District resident is reporting a new twist to the old locked-out-of-my-apartment scam. This time the alleged scam-artist allegedly poses gay and asks for $3 to pay a locksmith. The scam works because the straights believe that like George Washington, gays cannot tell a lie. Meanwhile, according to the Rainier Valley Post, another door-to-door scam took place last week, only this time the alleged scam artists posed as city workers and targeted elderly victims. In this incident two people entered a woman’s home, one of them distracted her while the other stole some jewelry. City workers? Elderly victims? Take a cue from your neighbors up north and show a little more flair, please!
I saw yellow traffic turtles randomly distributed across Taylor Ave N (where the new bicycle-friendly lane markings have all sorts of things crashing into each other).
I assumed it was just to keep everyone on their toes.
You have a punctuation error there.
“…South Seattle mothers celebrate getting their own monthly breastfeeding support group. (Sorry; boob fetishists, babies only.) Hurrah!”
Bott’s dots.
While we’re giving editorial feedback, you have a little grammatical error here:
“The scam works because like George Washington, the straights believe that gays cannot tell a lie.”
It should read “believe that gays, like George Washington, cannot tell a lie.” The way it is written now makes it seem like both GW and the straights think that gays cannot tell a lie.
Funny little aside about the straights, btw. 🙂
I would totally fall for that gay thing.
That locksmith scam guy has worked the C.D. for years. He says he and his boyfriend just moved into the neighborhood and mentions that he works at Microsoft and asks for cash for the locksmith. He hit up one of my friends a few years ago, when she was trusting (she’s from Germany.) A few years later he showed up again, at her new house about 20 blocks away on the other end of the neighborhood, and she wasn’t so trusting anymore.
Yeah, his name is Patrick and his family lives around 22nd and Alder and thus, he is often running that scam around there. He has been caught running game in Beacon Hill and S Rainier as well. He may or may not have been the burglar who was struck by a car as he was being chased across 23rd last winter… his face was too fucked up to recognize but he went to the family’s residence for sanctuary.
snow plows, duh.
I’m shocked! He could be making a six-figure income if he pulls this only 33,333.3 times a year.
Unpaid Intern: Maple Leaf is not the U-District.
Well, if it’s three bucks, it’s not a lot as far as scams go. Anyway, getting asked for three bucks to pay for a locksmith isn’t much different than being asked by anybody for that dollar they need to take the bus home.
Cool, an unpaid intern who listens to grammar advice! Yay!
Remember the dude who used to come to the door and say that he worked nearby and had just run out of gas? He had freckles and often wore a flannel shirt. I wonder what became of him. One time I gave him 2 dollars and he got mad at me because it wasn’t enough.
Hey unpaid intern – despite the grammatical things, I like your writing style. It’s a cute take on the Stranger usual.
the scam guy got my partner in Eastlake. He’s also pulled this on Cap Hill as well
The gay scamming dude apparently hit our house while my room mates were home a short while ago. They said they didn’t fall for it though, he must have been doing a run around the U-district because we are near Ravenna & Brooklyn.
As a resident of Mapleleaf I say “Good Riddance, road marking for the blind!”
Also, you may want to replace the “and” in your article title with a semicolon. As it reads, it looks like a vigil for one or two guys (it’s not clear whether the missing man and the scam artist are one and the same) is terrorizing the U-District. That’s the WORST kind of vigil…