News File Under: Takes One to Know One
posted by on October 8 at 11:16 AM
From Sunday’s Seattle Times:
Witnesses reported a man in a yellow shirt acting erratically, insulting and threatening passing pedestrians at Pike Street and Boren Avenue near the Washington State Convention and Trade Center, said Seattle police spokeswoman Deb Brown…. The man in the yellow shirt apparently focused in on the second man, saying, “I am going to kill you,” Brown said. He then began punching and kicking the second man until the man fell to the sidewalk. The victim happened to have a concealed-weapons permit, Brown said, and he was carrying a handgun. He pulled out the gun and fired once, hitting his attacker in the abdomen.“It looked to me like he shot him in self-defense,” said Linda Vu, who was across the street from the shooting, handing out fliers for political activist Lyndon LaRouche. “It’s kind of crazy.”
Self defense - good for him. Next, some real news.
FoleyGateHowBigIsIt is more interesting ...... where are the videos?
Sex stuff in America, sells, ask Dan.
I hate old guys hitting on teens, and it is so ironic that the moral police have been caught with their dicks hanging out.
When a LaRouchee thinks something is "kind of crazy" - you KNOW it's gotta be Super Mega-Crazy.
I'm for gun control, but I guess it makes sense for well-trained people to be able to have concealed weapons permits. I'd probably fumble and shoot myself instead. Guns are scary to me.
Maybe the aggro LaRouchies planted the crazy guy there to coax pedestrians into walking on their side of the street, so that said pedestrians couldn't avoid them. Or they set up shop across from the crazy guy on purpose, knowing peds would cross the street to avoid him... and walk right into their clutches.
I wish we could ban soliciting. I'm sick of getting harrassed by salespeople just because I'm walking down the street.
Gomez,
I usually just shake my head at the handbill passers, which generally stops them in their tracks. I would imagine after two or three hours of doing they're job, any sort of actual human contact/response throws them for a split second anyway, just long enough for me to walk past.
When I encounter LaRouchee's, I generally just point-and-laugh while that poor "why won't you TALK to me?" expression wrinkles their face as I walk by.
I found that the combination of a smile, "no thanks", and keeping on walking works great for La Rouchees, panhandlers, girl scouts, etc.
Agreed Sean, that's what I do as well and it works well.
All you boys that are proud of avoiding weirdos on the street ... it's almost clever of you to learn that special skill.
For a second there i misread the article and thought that a LaRouche kid had started attacking someone and gotten shot... Poor civilian...
Wonder if the attacker was the same guy who randomly stabbed the guy in Cal Anderson park a couple months ago?
Am I the only one who thinks that shooting was a bit of an overreaction? It sounds pretty clear that the man in the yellow shirt was mentally ill. I would imagine it would be very scary to be jumped on and punched by a man saying that he's going to kill you, but surely pulling out a gun and shooting the dude at close range was not the only possible response?
I'm not saying that I wouldn't have done the same in that situation and I hope I don't ever have to find out. I'm just saying that it's weird that none of the news stories I've seen about this incident mention the mental illness angle.
Since I'm a predictable liberal, I have to wonder how this situation would have gone down if the attacked man had not been carrying a concealed weapon.
A neighbor of the September 6 stabbing victim spoke to him last week and reports that he has been told by police that the man who attacked him was arrested on another matter in Tacoma, and that during the course of his interrogation, admitted to this stabbing and another.
@Kalakalot:
You might be the only one. I don't think the crazy guy was willing to discuss his differences with the balding guy over a mocha at Starbucks. Ever since the Newcastle cop got killed by a crazy naked man a couple years ago, I have no problems with someone who is beat down by a nutjob threating to kill responding with one bullet to the abdomen in self defense. Plus, the guy was wearing a yellow shirt. Dude, it's autumn.
Comte,
I do that to EVERY solicitor. The bastards jump in front of me and shove their little handbills in my face.
The next one to do it is getting punched. Put THAT in the paper.
'The bastards' are the LaRouchies. Other solicitors don't employ such tactics. And they're not nearly as close to setting me off.
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