Here's one from the They All Laughed At Me At The (Police) Academy Department, or why I may not be crazy or paranoid.

As some of you may know, I have had an ongoing issue with my neighbors, who I have suspected of being meth heads. None of my business, except it seemed to me like it was constantly leaking into my apartment. And also it seemed to be coming from their bar-b-que. I went so far as to make a general report to the Kent Police on their Facebook page and with calls, but as you might imagine, it's hard to use a smell as evidence and the apartment manager said disingenuously, "oh, I can't tell them not to use their barbeques".

Well, how about these apples?

Man Arrested For 'Barbecuing' Meth In Apartment

“Most people like to keep their drug production and meth labs a secret as opposed to .. bellowing out to people and calling out to people from their patio while they're in midst, allegedly, of making the drugs themselves," Abbotsford police Const. Ian MacDonald told CTV News.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/03/31/…

Most people perhaps. But not in BC...or perhaps on East Hill as well.

Russian troops with their ratty old camos that they were probably born in, leaving their goddamn toenail clippings all over the floor.

Wait, did Jen say her husband was the victim of the crotchgrab?

(That's one crazy-ass story that involves cash thrown on the floor, the clotheslining of the thief, a Metro tunnel security guard helping her escape (inadvertently).)

The bar where said crotch-grabbing took place is called Joe's, and I'm surprised that we don't see stories like this in the headlines more often... Joe's is full of crackheads and chronic alcoholics, and over seven years of working in the International District, I have seen countless drug deals and fights go down outside.

It's kind of charming, in a horrifying way. It's rare to find dive bars with such sheer Chandlerian character in today's Seattle. For shiggles, try reading Mike Seely's description or just enjoy the Yelp reviews.

As I type this, it is 8:23 a.m. There are undoubtedly some drunks on their third beer at Joe's right now. Workers in the ID will step in the drunks' pee as they make their way into the office.

@5.. a few years ago i saw i guy jerkin it right at the bar in that bar . to completion. and nobody said a word or made the slightest move to stop him. it gave a whole new meaning to the phrase 'happy hour'.

@5

Is that the one on the corner? I've passed by it at night, sometimes stopping for a few minutes outside to watch the game that's on. There's often activity, and I'm always alert, but I've never felt endangered there. Of course, I do just what @6 does--let people alone, mind my own business.

Holy Christ the Stranger has a bad case of Tall Poppy Syndrome. Kid becoming a famous chef at 15? Another kid getting into all 8 Ivy League schools? Fuck them right?! I swear sometimes it's hard to be progressive when other progressives can't tell the difference between earned and unearned success. Give these kids a break and examine what you could be doing with your own lives before tearing other people down.

I would actually think most applicants who can get into one ivy league school can get into all eight. However, applying to all eight is a waste of time and money since you can only go to one. That is either one very neurotic or very pompous kid.

What Ivy League school did you go to Fletcher? If you would have read the article you'd see that the kid can now take his pick between financial aid packages, which probably vary greatly between schools. Don't you think it might be worth a couple hundred extra bucks and a few week's work to potentially get tens of thousands of extra dollars in tuition and pick your ideal location / program? Like I said, tall Poppy Syndrome. The kid is a fucking first generation African immigrant. Stop talking shit about something you know nothing about.

The eight schools look for different skills/personality traits etc and it is indeed a tremendous feat to appeal on all levels to all those schools. That is why this is big news (but even more so because this is a first generation African immigrant kid). Kid done good. Kid deserves credit.

@9: Bullshit. Getting into one Ivy means you can get into all. First, Cornell and Dartmouth do not equal Princeton or Harvard or Yale. Second, college admissions is a crapshoot; so many factors affect decision-making.

Are you that miserable that all you can take from that story is some way to crap on this amazing kid's success? Asshole.

A super club in your home is no longer the parvenu of the very wealthy.

There are several social networking apps that tout themselves as the AirBnB of meals, where strangers can book a seat at your dining room table and expect you to cook an expert quality meal...or at least try your new concoction and not charge that much!

With website names like Eat With, Side Tour, VoulezVousDiner and Feastly, a new food trend that is sweeping New York and other cities allows diners to enjoy fine meals inside someone else's home. Think of it as Airbnb for hungry people.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/01…

#12

They have a shared database for the League so they know which student is applying to which colleges.

This lets say a good but not great student not fall through the cracks with no offers, and a great but not spectacular student not take up too many offers.

At the same time, for the spectacular students it becomes open season.

@12
perhaps go a little easier on flet3cher. Realizing one is an Asshole is an extremely difficult endeavor, even for high IQ people.

It's pretty amazing for a kid to get into all 8 schools of his choice. Also shows that he is a hard workers--completing those applications takes a lot of time. Best of luck to him!

Did the Russians lie again? I thought they said they were pulling their troops away from Ukraine's borders. Europeans set up the EU to prevent another Hitler from rising to power and starting a devastating war. They forgot about Russia and a very likely possibility of another Stalin eager to "restore former glory". The level of nationalistic hysteria is at all-time high in Russia right now.

@16: Actually today with the common app it doesn't take nearly as long as it once did. You probably have to tailor an essay for each, but once you've done the main app is trivial to send it to multiple schools.

Frankie Knuckles didn't make the morning news?

@19 nope. dag.

The future of American cuisine is coming from some young stud with his grandmother's recipes in an illegal taco truck in Orange County, CA, not anybody in anybody's high-priced "test kitchen".

@18,

You only have to write a separate essay if the college requires it. Many just ask for a personal statement (or at least did 17 years ago when I applied), allowing you to send several copies of the same essay out.

The reporter running from the turkey? Drama queen central. What does she imagine it's going to do to her? Idiot.

@23

I haven't reviewed this, but. . .

Turkeygeddon: The Thirteen Best Turkey Attack Videos

http://eater.com/archives/2011/11/23/tur…

These kids are future 1% and should be immediately sent to work farms for cultural rehabilitation.

@19 - Knuckles didn't play indie rock sooo the only staff writer who knows who he is would be Dave Segal, and nobody understands his rambling.

@23, 24: I can't believe that it doesn't occur to anyone to make any sort of predatory display towards the bird. I'll take on a wild turkey any day of the week.

Thanks, @24, that ruled.

Of course, it sounds like the metro transit force isn't quite on the same page as proper law enforcement. Must have presumed the woman was the victim.

According to the report, the woman was able to get free and run toward a nearby bus terminal. A witness saw her attempting to escape and clotheslined her as she ran by.

The witness and another man held the woman down, intending to wait for officers. But, proving no good deed goes unpunished, a Metro security employee threatened to hit them with a Taser if they didn't let her go.

According to the report, the woman got free again and boarded a Route 49 bus heading west.

Officers found the woman a short time later near Third Avenue and James Street and arrested her. They found only $60 on her at the time of her arrest.