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Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Spiked In Seattle

posted by on December 18 at 8:31 AM

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S Hanford St & 13th Ave S

“It’s always that same little spike,” says Alma Cardenas. Cardenas, a South Seattle resident for the last six years, is referring to this:

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Last summer, Cardenas says she started finding the metal small spikes scattered on the road in her neighborhood. Tires were popped, patches were made, but the small metal spikes kept appearing. At first, she thought the spikes were spilling out of trucks from nearby construction sites. But recently, Cardenas says the spikes have evolved.

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“The [last spike I found] was glued to a nickel, with turf around it,” Cardenas says. “Our neighbor goes for walks in the morning and picks them up by the handful. There would have to be somebody sitting around making these.” Cardenas says it’s not unusual for her neighbor to find 4 or 5 of the spikes on her morning walk.

According the Cardenas, the spikes have given her neighbor’s car “6 or 7” flat tires. “I’ve replaced a tire once and gotten one patched,” she says. “It’s frustrating, It’s such a waste of time and money.”

Cardenas is putting the word out to neighbors to figure out who’s leaving the spikes on her street. She’s not sure who would benefit from the spiking, although she notes there is a tire store down the street. However, Cardenas says. “I doubt they’re [involved]. It’s only 15 [dollars] to patch a tire.”

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1

Someone should give her a copy of The Monkey Wrench Gang.

Posted by seattle98104 | December 18, 2007 8:52 AM
2

i blame the cyclists

Posted by kinkos | December 18, 2007 9:03 AM
3

It shouldn't be too hard to sit up one night in a blind with a tire iron in your hand. That little problem could be solved.

Posted by Fnarf | December 18, 2007 9:06 AM
4

yuppies from montana & idaho.

seriously: that's one crazy teenage boy. a fine prospect for public office.

Posted by max solomon | December 18, 2007 9:10 AM
5

@3: Need somebody with a paintball gun, too, in case he runs.

Posted by Greg | December 18, 2007 9:15 AM
6

i've changed my mind.

that's an adult male - likely white, likely lives alone. likely fucking nuts.

Posted by max solomon | December 18, 2007 9:16 AM
7

I blame the SLUT riders.

Posted by Mahtli69 | December 18, 2007 9:29 AM
8

Paintball gun? Please. Shoot his knee caps and go to sleep to the cozy sounds of his screams.

Posted by Mr. Poe | December 18, 2007 9:35 AM
9

Random disturbances of downhill society evolution is fine with me. Often I welcome destruction of my material possessions. Accidentally, i practice it all the time.

Now, instead of whining on the internet and getting all huffy about gentrification , shouldn't we start smashing all the windows out of Kincora?

No, we passively sit by on our computers and "feit" it out, "mmmmm that's a good release". yeah, let's watch the cool (In/Visible) developers and the the cranes and wrecking balls they hire destroy the corridor. It's a spectacle after all. Yeah, I'll start it, because someone at least had some guts to graffiti jack in the Box "Feed your Fat ass3s".

next up SLUT, next up lab animals, next up Jillians sports bar and grill. Grill, Grill, Grill. Oh, and I'll be on the news tonight King 5, watch it!

Posted by Spike "God's Comic" Costelloroot | December 18, 2007 9:38 AM
10

Perhaps someone should forward this last post to the SPD.

Posted by PJ | December 18, 2007 9:47 AM
11

I blame Boo Radley.

Posted by keshmeshi | December 18, 2007 9:59 AM
12

@8: Heh. Tempting, except with my luck the jackass would call 911 on his cell phone, and then the cops would kick down my door and haul me off to jail. Oh, and they'd also shoot my pit bull.

Posted by Greg | December 18, 2007 10:03 AM
13

Whoever is making those should start selling them - they could make a fortune. The marketing ideas make me swoon....

Posted by M | December 18, 2007 10:10 AM
14

@12

Take his cell phone away from him and fire off a couple rounds in the air to show the neighborhood you mean business. They'll get the picture.

Posted by Mr. Poe | December 18, 2007 10:15 AM
15

Hasn't anyone ever heard of webcams connected to video recorders, triggered by motion detectors?

Posted by Will in Seattle | December 18, 2007 10:37 AM
16

Motion detectors in the middle of a street. Brilliant!

Posted by Fnarf | December 18, 2007 10:46 AM
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@16

No shit.

Posted by Mr. Poe | December 18, 2007 11:14 AM
18

Who pays $15 to patch a flat? Discount Tire does simple flat tire patches for free.

Posted by SDA in SEA | December 18, 2007 11:15 AM
19

PUBLIC INTERN!! Please let him set up a week long observation post and catch the filthy critter who sprays spikes!!

Posted by subwlf | December 18, 2007 11:57 AM
20

It's totally the repair shop down the street. 15 x multiple tire flats + upselling other services = winter business.

Contact the SPD, even the FBI, and tip them. I mean, why not? Or at the absolute least, appoint someone to watch the intersections in question.

Posted by Gomez | December 18, 2007 12:10 PM
21

Cute victim couple just interviewed on KIRO news... this is BIG NEWS!!!!

Posted by M | December 18, 2007 12:24 PM
22

Looks like performance art to me.

Posted by Kiru Banzai | December 18, 2007 4:16 PM
23

It's Critical Mass.

Posted by So Much For Live And Let Live, Seatt;e | December 18, 2007 4:49 PM

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