Slog - Comments on Attack at Third and Union http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/attack_at_third_and_union Just got a text message from Angela Valdez that a man set two women on fire down at 3rd and Union. Valdez is on the scene. The women seem to be okay. Apparently the guy poured lighter fluid on them. More to come. Here's a pic that a reader sent in of one of the victims talking to SPD: And another of one of the victim's burnt off hair on the sidewalk:... Copyright 2008 Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:44:31 -0800 Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:12:05 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by alithea this is not as funny as the geniuses in boston who made aquateen hunger force "bombs" :[

]]> alithea http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/attack_at_third_and_union#c605391 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/attack_at_third_and_union#c605391 News Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:54:26 -0800 Comment by tsm Violent ex-boyfriend/husband? Raging meth-head? Escaped mental patient? Details?

]]> tsm http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/attack_at_third_and_union#c605434 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/attack_at_third_and_union#c605434 News Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:31:41 -0800 Comment by michael strangeways Gob from "Arrested Development"?

]]> michael strangeways http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/attack_at_third_and_union#c605448 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/attack_at_third_and_union#c605448 News Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:44:16 -0800 Comment by monkey So THAT'S what that was. I saw the police lights down the street when I was heading to lunch and I ALMOST was going to eat at Harried & Hungry (which rocks, btw) but went the other way. I missed out on all the action.

]]> monkey http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/attack_at_third_and_union#c605466 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/attack_at_third_and_union#c605466 News Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:10:29 -0800 Comment by Gomez I was sitting at the window with coffee at Trabant once when a guy who looked like Mateen Cleaves walked up with a gas can and started shouting at me.

Fortunately, he walked off, but I could easily see this 'randomly light people on fire' sort of thing happening in town.

]]> Gomez http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/attack_at_third_and_union#c605479 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/attack_at_third_and_union#c605479 News Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:24:26 -0800 Comment by sputnik Happens all the time in Pakistan and Afganistan. Just ask the women there.
Sometimes its with acid. Whoever did this should get 'kicked in the nutz.'

]]> sputnik http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/attack_at_third_and_union#c605505 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/attack_at_third_and_union#c605505 News Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:50:18 -0800 Comment by COMTE Acid-throwing has been a popular form of revenge in many other cultures as well, including perhaps most recently late 19th/early 20th Century France, where the practice was identified with its chief ingredient, sulfuric acid, and from whence we derive the word "vitriol".

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/attack_at_third_and_union#c605578 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/attack_at_third_and_union#c605578 News Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:12:05 -0800