Bus Yard Drama/King County Metro Transit Center/Fri Aug 4/8:37 am: Officer R. Ellis and Officer G. Williams report: "At approximately 0937, we were dispatched to the Atlantic Base to check on an ongoing disturbance. Upon our arrival at Metro we met victim one and victim two, who were sitting together in an operations meeting room. They immediately explained to us that victim one had been assaulted about an hour earlier by an unknown suspect near the smoke area. Both victims stated they would like to have the incident documented in case they saw the suspect again. The suspect has dreadlocks, missing front teeth, and wire-rim glasses.
Victim one stated that she was walking downstairs from a meeting when she saw her friend, victim two, in the sign-in area. She stopped to say hello, when victim two advised her that there was a black male subject in the office building being very loud and causing a disturbance. Victims one and two went outside to have a smoke and to stay away from the unruly subject. While smoking, victim one learned from victim two that the black male subject was actually a sleeper on the bus that had returned to the bus yard. Allegedly, the driver of that bus woke up the suspect and asked him to get off and leave Metro property. The suspect became irate, exchanged harsh words with the driver, and went inside the building to file a complaint. The argument between the window supervisor and the suspect is what victim one walked in on and left.
"After causing trouble inside of the office, the suspect came outside where victim one and victim two were smoking. The suspect asked them for a cigarette. Victim one told the suspect 'no' and that 'around here we work for our cigarettes.' The suspect got [all] into her face and began swearing into her face. She ordered the suspect to leave Metro property. Suspect then looked around for something to throw, spotted a large traffic cone, picked it up, and threw it at her. She turned and the cone struck her in the back. In pain, she ran into the building and called 911. Realizing the police were being called, the suspect left Metro property."
The suspect in this report is a foreign body to Metro property, which is a workspace, a productive space, a space where time is organized by money. The suspect is, of course, unemployable (no front teeth, dreadlocks); he enters the workspace, the bus yard, in a condition that is entirely unproductive (he is fast asleep); and the disturbance he causes is a waste of Metro's time/money and a drain on its labor force (employees are tied up, buses are delayed). From the suspect's negative impact on the workspace we get victim one's exasperation ('around here we work for our cigarettes'). On Metro property, nothing is for nothing. 
