Burglar floods Seattle restaurant with beer
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SEATTLE -- A burglar pulled a "wet bandits" on a Queen Anne restaurant last week when he left a beer tap on full blast, flooding the basement, freezer and cabinets, according to the Seattle Police Department.
According to the police report for the incident, surveillance cameras caught the burglar using a rock to smash out a back window at the restaurant in the 100 block of First Avenue North around 11:24 p.m. March 13, only minutes after the owner had locked up and left for the night.
Despite setting off the restaurant's alarm, the burglar grabbed 30 bottles of alcohol from the bar, locking one of the beer taps in the on position in the process, according to the report.
According to the report, the burglar left, but the beer kept flowing, causing the line between the tap and keg to break.
Officers arrived to find the basement, freezer and below-bar shelving flooded. Vegetables and other food were ruined, and beer was dripping down from the top of the basement freezer. The deluge of beer didn't stop until the keg was completely emptied.
A K-9 unit was unable to track the burglar, who had left the scene by the time officers arrived, according to the report.
The owner of the restaurant told police he is worried because it is the second time he has been burglarized since buying and opening the restaurant.
Another piece of scum who is stealing our air.
Why can't you name the place? Hula Hula?
Dried beer stinks too...I bet that was a pain to clean up.
I think we can rule out Homer Simpson as the suspect.
Dont you wish you could catch this guy, in the act, and just knock him out of his shoes with a single 124 grain Jacketed Hollow point. You would be cleaning up the gene pool, getting rid of another scourge on society , and this guy wouldnt become a repeat offender.  Â
@sportbuff01 wow I know spilled beer is a crime but I think there are a lot worse dirt bags out there that could benefit from your fine marksmanship
How does one carry away 30 bottles?
@Fritz In a bag?
BYOS...Bring your own straw..
Get a trained dog to sleep at the bar over night. German Shepard. They will find out who is doing by identifying the dead body.
Sounds like the owner needs to upgrade his equipment, there is no way that line should have broke away from the keg.
Put bars over the windows. Problem solved
Exaggerate much? A keg of beer might flood a small bathroom, but ONE keg of beer is not going to FLOOD an entire bar and basement. It might have been a wet floor throughout the restaurant and started to drip through the floor, but this headline of it FLOODING the place is pure HYPERBOLE.  Is KOMO trying to be come Seattle's National Enquirer?
@Dinae Laughsalot  I keep a half-barrel (15 gallons) of brew at my house. Enough to cover a basement floor, but not "flood" it.
@Dinae Laughsalot It's like 16 gallons... that's a lot of beer.Â
@Dinae Laughsalot Could have been one of those huge kegs that the micro breweries use? I could see one of those flooding an area.
@Dinae Laughsalot Try cleaning it up... Then maybe you might exaggerate some.  :)~
Quite an effort for some booze! D**N criminals!!
That is alcohol abuse! ;-)
@The WA Mama snicker.... Party Foul!
Former employee?
@Funky-Munky That's what I was thinking.
Buckleys?
@yeahguy Wrong 1st ave.Â
@lakeview@yeahguyThere's a Buckley's on First Ave N on Queen Anne