King County's sobering center is homeless: The Dutch Shisler Sobering Center was housed in a building owned by the Community Psychiatric Clinic (CPC). But CPC sold the building. There were plans to move the sobering center to Georgetown, but the neighborhood wouldn't stand it and the Georgetown Neighborhood Alliance even filed a lawsuit. Now there's no sobering center, and the homeless people who get turned away from typical shelters for being too inebriated are schlepped to emergency rooms to sleep. It's around $2,000 a night for a bed at Harborview compared to around $68 at the sobering center.
A busy morning for traffic cops: Northbound I-5 near Shoreline was carnage this morning starting at around 2:40 a.m. when a Camaro was rear-ended by another driver. That driver sped away and plowed into another vehicle. In total, four vehicles were involved. The driver fled on foot but was caught by state troopers. It's a doozy for the ol' morning commute:
#Shoreline update: There's about a mile backup on northbound I-5 due to this collision, but the bigger backup is on southbound I-5. There's approx. a 6 mile backup, likely due to people slowing down to see the collision. Be alert and focused on the road and expect long delays. pic.twitter.com/HwwYy7bxlp
— WSDOT Traffic (@wsdot_traffic) July 16, 2019
Turn the San Juans into an orca retirement home, you cowards!!!! The Whale Sanctuary Project wants the likes of Shamu to have a place to settle down after a full (tortured) life of performing. We get it, after all, we've seen Blackfish. The group wants whale performances at aquariums to end and for all those trick-pony orcas to come live in a 60 to 100 acre netted-off cove in the San Juans. It would cost millions of dollars and take a heckuva lot of permits.
Seattle Children's Hospital nurse contracts measles: She was fully vaccinated and was working with a child who had the disease. She contracted it. This article lists all the places she went where she could have exposed others to measles. All of them are in Seattle Children's Hospital, so you're probably safe. But... she also went to the Metropolitan Market in Sand Point on July 8.
Happy Apollo launch day: Fifty years ago today, Apollo 11 astronauts began their journey to the moon.
50 years ago, Apollo 11 launched from the Kennedy Space Center to begin its voyage into American history https://t.co/9Mvc7iGFm0 pic.twitter.com/sjls3WfwHf
— CBS News (@CBSNews) July 16, 2019
Man confesses to killing American scientist in Greece: Suzanne Eaton, a 59-year-old molecular biologist, was on the island of Crete for a conference. She took a walk in between events and went missing. Her dead body was found days later in a World War II bunker used by Nazis. A 27-year-old local man has confessed to her murder. He said he ran her down with his car, stuffed her in the trunk, sexually assaulted her, and ditched her in the bunker. Her cause of death was suffocation.
I would have peed my pants: These fishermen reeled in a GREAT WHITE SHARK. I love the panic in their voices when it breaches the water: "CUT THE LINE CUT THE LINE."
These fishermen knew they'd caught something big in the San Francisco Bay.
They didn't expect it to be a great white. https://t.co/xHgNxPYvyy pic.twitter.com/nyKZB9Yvvb
— ABC News (@ABC) July 16, 2019
Couple married for 71 years die on the same day: This is morbidly beautiful. The pair, Herbert DeLaigle, 94, and Marilyn Frances DeLaigle, 88, died 12 hours apart from each other. It's scientifically possible to die from a broken heart, scientists in this article said.
Joe has a solution: Oh, good. This will fix everything.
Joe Biden: I’ll challenge Trump to do push-ups on stage if he makes fun of my age or mental state https://t.co/bAU94xAvHp
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 16, 2019
No charges against the officer who killed Eric Garner: Wednesday will mark the fifth anniversary of Eric Garner's death on a sidewalk in Brooklyn. Garner was put in a choke hold by NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo. Garner yelled "I can't breathe" over and over. He ultimately died of an asthma attack caused by the choke hold, a move banned by NYPD 20 years ago. Still, no federal charges will be filed against Pantaleo, the Justice Department determined Tuesday. Pantaleo has been kept on at a desk job without a shield or badge but has accrued pension and pay benefits, the New York Times reports. It is up to NYPD whether he will lose his job or be penalized.
Chase told you in PM yesterday about how Trump disparaged the group of young congresswomen of color: They're called "The Squad," but I hate that moniker. Anyway, part of the abuse was equating Representative Ilhan Omar with Al Qaeda. Have a peek at Trump's notes from that speech—and how he doesn't know how to pronounce Al Qaeda:
He is given phonetic spellings. “Alcaida” for Al-Qaeda. https://t.co/HUVdzg915P
— Alexander Chee (@alexanderchee) July 16, 2019
Me and all my friends fleeing all this bad news: Gosh! The news cycle is bleak.
WHAT A SIGHT! This huge pod of dolphins was spotted over the weekend gliding through the waves off the coast of Southern California.
The man who shot the video says "they seemed super happy. You could really feel the energy." https://t.co/YC2K2Cq9o7 pic.twitter.com/LILgpCC47W
— ABC News (@ABC) July 16, 2019
Ah, fuck, I'm getting pulled back in: Trump tweeted. Apparently he doesn't have a racist bone in his body, so WE'RE the fools here.
.....Congresswomen, who I truly believe, based on their actions, hate our Country. Get a list of the HORRIBLE things they have said. Omar is polling at 8%, Cortez at 21%. Nancy Pelosi tried to push them away, but now they are forever wedded to the Democrat Party. See you in 2020!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 16, 2019
The air force really doesn't want you to storm Area 51: There's a Facebook event called “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us.” It's happening at 3 a.m. on September 20, and it's very much a joke. Still, more than a million people have clicked attending and around 900,000 are interested in the event. The US Air Force had to issue a statement telling people to please not storm Area 51.
Tonight's best Seattle entertainment options include: A show with “solo dronescapist” Foie Gras, a night of comedy with Whitmer Thomas, and a chance to see the musical art installation Trimpin: Hear and Now at the Goethe Pop-up Space.