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Too bad there doesn’t appear to be any rss – such is life.

A nice start: violent crime reports online within a few days of filing.

Gene Porter has died.

1. Take off your coat and put it through the metal detector. Is your only human contact getting wanded in the morning? It isn’t cute or funny when you trip the detector on purpose.
2. I am not sorry about calling you a fucking idiot for failing to make it through the metal detector.
3. The cafeteria on 2 is not the place for IRS personnel to discuss taxpayer issues.
4. Tell the blind guy what you have: “two sodas and a candy bar”; don’t make him grope around on the counter trying to tally up your order. He’s blind, k?
5. Don’t eat in the cafeteria.
6. Bathe, motherfucker.

1. The IRS is on 32. First set of elevators, right in front of the metal detector.
2. The VA is on 1, in the lobby.
3. First Avenue is on the first floor, marked “1″ in the elevator.
4. Second Avenue is on the fourth floor, marked “4″ in the elevator.
5. The cafeteria is on the second floor, marked “2″ in the elevator.
6. The gentlemen with guns tell you when you come in which floor you are on.
7. Wandering around on 2 looking for the Second Avenue exit will get you nowhere.
8. The metal detectors detect metal. When the men with guns tell you to put everything metal into a tray, please do so.
9. He may be blind, but he can tell the difference between a five and a ten. Don’t argue with him.

The victim was faster than the suspect and began liberally applying his shoe to the would-be robber

Robbery foiled by shoe-wielding victim

Tugboat sinks at Seattle waterfront pier

Seattle Times
I assert that among the many reasons newspapers are dying is the paper’s lack of interest in local news; this boat sank blocks from the Times, but they carried a wire service article. How hard is it to have a photographer hoof it down and take a picture? The boat sank Saturday; where is a phone call to the owner and a few words about the vessel? What kind of tug? Where was it docked?

No tap-rack-bang here. Thankfully.

When the detectives attempted to talk to Monfort, he pointed a gun at the head of one of the detectives and pulled the trigger, Pugel said. The gun “clicked” but didn’t fire. Monfort ran up some stairs and again pointed a weapon at the detectives, who shot him.

The officer-involved shooting is being investigated by the King County Sheriff’s Office because it happened in Tukwila.

Sgt. John Urquhart, Sheriff’s Office spokesman, said it appears that Monfort did not have a round in the chamber of his semi-automatic handgun when he attempted to fire at police the first time.

Investigators believe that Monfort cocked the weapon while he was running. When the gun was recovered, after Monfort had been shot, Urquhart said the weapon was ready to fire.

TRB