Street youths make life miserable at Seattle apartment
SEATTLE -- A First Hill apartment building has found itself under siege by street youths for the past month, resulting in everything from used condoms in the laundry room to a tenant trapped in an elevator, according to the Seattle Police Department.
The manager of the building in the 1100 block of Eighth Avenue told police the same trio of street youths have been breaking into the building and causing damage since Jan. 25, frustrating him and his tenants.
According to the police report filed by the manager Feb. 25, the youths have pried open the front door, damaging it beyond repair; broken a window; camped out in the front lobby; lived in the storage room, leaving behind clothes, bags and more; broken wall hangings; and damaged walls.
In one instance, the youths apparently hung on the elevator door, bending it, which resulted in a tenant being trapped inside for 45 minutes, according to the report.
Having had enough, the building manager finally hired a private security company to check the building during the night and early morning starting this week.
Can't believe this is news.
Pepper spray them and beat them senseless. Seriously.
@Root Please They are already senseless is the only problem........
I used to live in that building, glad to hear the elevators actually worked at one point.
Ah yes the street kids. Mostly white, mostly late teen to early 20s, mostly drug users. We had a lot of them hanging around Broadway on Capitol Hill, but their numbers have decreased a lot in recent years. Â
First place to look for these idiots would be downtown near the homeless services area around Pioneer Square.Â
@lakeview Way to stereotype!
The residents should take our VP's suggestion and shoot a shotgun in the air. Oh wait SPD wouldn't care for that.
@APenny4MyThoughts Biden never said to shoot the gun into the air. That's what you created in your imaginative mind.
@lakeview"Get a double-barreled shotgun. Have the shells ready. And I promise you...as I told my wife...we live in an area that's in the woods and somewhat secluded. I said, 'Jill, if there's ever a problem, just walk out on the balcony here, walk out and take that double-barrel shotgun and fire two blasts outside the house. I promise you whoever is coming in...You don't need an AR-15. It's harder to aim, it's harder to use and in fact, you don't need 30 rounds to protect yourself. Buy a shotgun, buy a shotgun." Ooops sorry. Not INTO the air but OUTSIDE the house. That's a lot better.
@lakeview @RobinsnestBy OUTSIDE I'm sure he meant to say "outside our atmosphere." That's where Bakedview's brain resides.Â
@Robinsnest
http://www.ijreview.com/2013/02/38482-humorous-women-take-joe-bidens-buy-a-shotgun-advice/
Biden's shotgun advice.
@Robinsnest @lakeview  Thanks for posting the truth though. It took NW Economist several weeks to come to terms with that truth.Â
@lakeview @APenny4MyThoughtsThat's right! Biden clearly wanted people to carry around a space-time singularity and shoot into that! Not air! Whoever shoots bullets into air?!Â
@lakeview @NW-Economist @APenny4MyThoughtsROFL, the one who admitted he made 19k a year, was on the public teat and admitted he didn't know what he was talking about, and who thought you were out of your mind too? It was a circus watching both of you pretend to be relevant.Â
@NW-Economist @lakeview @APenny4MyThoughts Still can't deal with being wrong can you? Â
I enjoyed seeing that other dude expose your ignorance on the constitutionality of our income tax as well. Â
Good times!Â
@APenny4MyThoughts ON second thought, I'm giving you too much credit. Probably just regurgitating something you heard on Fox News or something...
@lakeview  I watch Fox News and they never said anything about Biden recommending shooting a shotgun into the air, just outside or through the door (the guy is BRILLIANT!). That's what you created in YOUR imaginative mind.  Â
Most of us know what "APenny" meant.Â
@APenny4MyThoughts Latest technique is to fire through the front door according to Slo-Jo
Catch these punks and put them to work loading trucks or picking crops until all the damage is paid back.Â
Indeed, and equip them with some new hip "jewelry" to keep them from running off and neat hot pink stripped jumpsuits, underoos and t-shirts.
Sounds like those punks need an arse beating!
@Tattooed_Angel2Â Â Some "street justice" could work wonders.
Has the owner installed cameras yet? He should and release the pictures of the idiots to the public. Someone will recognize them.
Michael Harthorne, small typo in your article: "damaging in beyond repair"
@NW-Economist Thanks! I've corrected it. I need to get our developers to figure out how to add "unofficial KOMO copy editor" tags to profile names, or something.
reminds me of the high school I attended-except for the elevator
At least they're practicing safe sex.
@Reality Control Always looking on the bright side.