MAYBE HE WAS BORED
On April 16, a prowler was out of his mind or just bored. Either way, the person made their way in through the back door of a woman's home along 34th Avenue West.
Nothing was taken, nothing was disturbed. The owner only noticed the intrusion because a light she never leaves on was left on and a door she knew she locked was open.
She called the cops who determined there was no sign of forced entry. Cops figured that maybe the woman just forgot to lock up.
A FAVOR?
Somebody took out a can of green spray paint and left his proverbial calling card on a couple of cars parked along the 75 block of West John Street on the night of April 18.
One of the cars was owned by a Queen Anne resident who called police. The car was a Toyota Supra The Picasso wannabe ventured further down the street and messed up somebody else's BMW, too.
Cops rushed to the rescue and gave their business cards to the lady and the Beemer's windshield wiper.
The latte identity
You know we've reached a new level of societal indifference when people prowling cars do so with tools in one hand and a cuppa coffee in the other.
On the night of April 19 at 550 West Thomas Street, a java-swilling animal smashed up the passenger window of a 2003 BMW 325, casually set his coffee down in the car's cup holder flipped the lever to open the trunk and removed its contents: A laptop, a GPS system and a purse filled with cash and credit cards. Cops again rushing to the scene dusted the coffee cup for prints, but came up with bupkis.
LOOK ON STAGE, TOO
He may have just come up with a great vocal melody and needed to hear it with a guitar. So some opportunist opened the unlocked back door of a van parked at Elliott Avenue West the night of April 19 and lifted a guitar worth $1,000. The guitar has an ebony fretboard, mahogany face and rosewood back. The owner has had the guitar for 10 years and said he was going to check all the pawnshops in town.
BACK FOR MORE
On the evening of April 13 at the 3600 block of 24th Avenue West, a boyfriend was none-too-pleased with his girlfriend and, returning to her apartment where they had been arguing earlier, allegedly began pummeling her in the head and arms and ribs then spat on her. He did it all while screaming obscenities at her.
The woman was able to get away and call the cops from a nearby payphone. The cops looked her over but were unable to find any bruises or marks where she claimed she was struck. Cops then drove to the apartment where the cad was accused of doing his deeds, but he was long gone.
MOTEL HELL
On April 18, an out-of-towner booked a room for her and a friend at a hotel along Aurora Avenue North. Their stay was less than favorable. On the day they were to check out, the manager surprised the woman whose name was on the room with $150 in claimed over charges. The manager was livid. He claimed the guest broke a foot stool and invited a third person into the room, hence the charges.
The guest flipped out, the manager said, and began throwing business cards at him and even the bellhop bell in the lobby. He said he caught the meltdown on security surveillance, but when the cops asked to see the tape, he said the system was down.
The out-of-towner said the manager tried to hit them but all she and her friend want to do now is contest the charges and not return to Washington.
DRUNKEN HIJINKS
Cops showed amazing self-control and patience when a man on foot flagged them down April 18 at the intersection of Mercer and Taylor streets, and after claiming he was assaulted, leaned into the driver's side window and asked for a drink. He had the look, too: bloodshot eyes, stunk of booze and a marked up face upon which someone had issued an old-style beating.
The situation took an odd turn when the guy suddenly bolted, not wanting any medical attention from arriving Fire Department personnel. He scrambled into a nearby home. He then scrambled out with a video camera. A witness saw the home owner chasing him with nine iron. But the man got away.
A NIGHT AT THE OFFICE
The back office of a business at the 1500 block of Queen Anne Avenue North, had been broken into April 20, and burglars made away with some laptops and video equipment, according to the police report. There was no value placed on the items.
The report noted that the burglars had forced their way into the building and ransacked the place before finding the keys to the back office. Cops dusted for prints and are investigating the case further.
A resident of an apartment along West Mercer Place was watching TV the night of April 18, when he saw some one scaling the back deck of the second-story condo and trying to open the screen door. It wasn't Romeo. It wasn't Santa Claus.
The man got spooked when he looked into the apartment and saw the resident inside calling the cops. He jumped down.
The man scaled the deck wall of another second-story apartment in a building to the north. The resident saw him, and by this time the cops had arrived. They threw the man into the back of the squad car. Both witnesses identified the creep as the trespasser. The man was booked and stuffed into King County Jail.
HEY HE'S TRYIN'
A resident of an apartment along West Mercer Place was watching TV the night of April 18, when he saw some one scaling the back deck of the second-story condo and trying to open the screen door. It wasn't Romeo. It wasn't Santa Claus.
The man got spooked when he looked into the apartment and saw the resident inside calling the cops. He jumped down.
The man scaled the deck wall of another second-story apartment in a building to the north. The resident saw him, and by this time the cops had arrived. They threw the man into the back of the squad car. Both witnesses identified the creep as the trespasser. The man was booked and stuffed into King County Jail.
ROCK STARS
Two people were walking up a bluff in Discovery Park the evening of April 18, when they came under a rock assault.
They saw two young men throwing rocks at them. They told the throwers to stop and that seemed to work. But then another sortie followed and this time a rock knocked one the hikers on the head.
Seattle Fire Department came and patched up the 3/8-inch cut on the hiker's forehead. The rock throwers had split well before cops could get their hands on them.
WAR ON TIRES
Half staggering, half walking, some guy came up to a car parked at the 200 block of Sixth Avenue North on April 16 and plunged a knife into the tire of a parked car. A witness called and described the guy to police who later found the culprit, who allegedly hates tires, near a gas station.
Another tire hater was busted the same night up the street at Second and John for slashing the tire of a rental car. He too was identified by a witness and was given a room at the King County Jail.
Three days later, in roughly the same location, residents heard someone screaming at 6 a.m.
Residents went out, nearly two hours later, to see what the fuss was and saw that three cars parked on the street each had a tire slashed. The slasher may have been yelling about how he hated tires. Cops gave out business cards and left.[[In-content Ad]]
