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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Crime Transvestite Arrested for Indecent Exposure at Seattle Center

Posted by Jonah Spangenthal-Lee on Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 3:04 PM

Seattle police arrested and temporarily banned a transvestite from the Seattle Center last month after she was allegedly caught drinking and exposing her naughty bits to other Center-goers.

According to a just-released police report, on May 22nd, the Seattle Police Department's bias crimes detective—who happened to be working off-duty at the Seattle Center—caught the transvestite and another woman drinking red wine out of a water bottle in the Center.

When the detective contacted the transvestite, the report says, she was wearing a "short black dress [which] failed to cover his penis and testicles." The officer asked her to pull her dress down three times, the report says, and asked if she had any underwear. Police escorted the transvestite and the other woman out of the Center.

An hour and a half later, the report says, police were called to the International Fountain at the Seattle Center after they received a report that someone was walking around the Center pulling up their skirt and exposing themselves. The bias crimes detective arrived and recognized the duo, who were taken to the King County Jail.

According to Seattle Police Department spokeswoman Renee Witt, while the bias crimes detective was involved in the arrest, there was "absolutely no bias crime" involved in the incident.

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I'm interested in what the "other woman" was arrested for.

Posted by douchus on June 17, 2009 at 3:06 PM

I blame the red wine. It gets people into all kinds of trouble.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on June 17, 2009 at 3:10 PM

Is "she" the proper pronoun for a dude in a skirt?

I'll let the PC police weigh in on that one.

Posted by Ackham prefers pants on June 17, 2009 at 3:13 PM

Not that I have any desire to see any peni or testes, but public nudity laws are stupid. What purpose do they serve?

Posted by Urgutha Forka on June 17, 2009 at 3:14 PM

Red Wine

Posted by Why Are We Not Surprised? on June 17, 2009 at 3:35 PM

Now we know why Erica is jumping to Pubic'ola.

Posted by Red Red Wine on June 17, 2009 at 3:36 PM

Transvestite sounds obnoxious. Police sound fair and tolerant (3 warnings?). Jail is warranted.

Posted by Christy O on June 17, 2009 at 3:40 PM

Quick! Kelly O to Seattle Center - your city needs you!

Posted by blank12357 on June 17, 2009 at 3:40 PM

One doesn't need a dress to cover one's testicles. That's what the scrotum is for.

Posted by kinaidos on June 17, 2009 at 3:42 PM

Arresting him, er, I mean her is a hate crime. Trannys unite and protest on the lawn of the Seattle Center! What will Obama do!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by Holy Roller on June 17, 2009 at 3:47 PM

ZZZzzzzzZZZZzzzz

and the news value of wine too amply consumed is ... oh, the uncommon drunk news, big time stuff

god, you who get paid over there , NEED an editor with his balls hanging free

Posted by Ace on June 17, 2009 at 3:50 PM

Dammit- I can't count how many times I was forced to go to Seattle Center as a kid, & nothing half that interesting ever happened to me there.

Posted by Katie B on June 17, 2009 at 3:52 PM

Excuse me? Does the Strangler report on every indecent exposure arrest? Or just the ones with "transvestite" in the police report. It seems to me that the reporter must check his head and ego at the door before presenting information in this biased way. Is this news because the subject is a "transvestite?" If so, would every action of any "transvestite" would news as well????

Posted by Kind of Irked on June 17, 2009 at 4:05 PM

There are all sorts of crazies in Seattle, how does being a crazy and a transvestite suddenly make it news worthy? Why is this surprising? I really am confused as to why this "news" from May 22nd deserves to be blogged about.

Posted by Take it all in on June 17, 2009 at 4:16 PM

14 - I suppose it's to show they report on LGBT shit-heads as well as pervy youth leaders and other assorted religious whack-a-doodles. Fair and Balanced!

Posted by The Amazing Jim

on June 17, 2009 at 4:19 PM

@15 well gee I guess that would be a good argument if Transvestites were constantly running around all the time talking about the indecencies of public drunkenness and "indecent" exposure.

Posted by Take it all in on June 17, 2009 at 4:45 PM

why does this seem like that an episode of Reno 911

Posted by apres_moi on June 17, 2009 at 4:51 PM

"her"

Posted by Reader1 on June 17, 2009 at 5:05 PM

Celebrate Divershitty!

Posted by Divershitty ROCKS!!!! on June 17, 2009 at 5:34 PM

@3 is right - dude in a skirt is 'he.' If you're using the 'she' pronoun then the word you're looking for is transgender (or, less hip, transsexual). Transvestite is someone who wears clothes of the gender with which they do NOT identify.

Posted by jnics on June 17, 2009 at 5:42 PM

What the fuck are you trying to pass off as ironic here? That It should be okay to get drunk and flaunt your cock anywhere you fucking well please in the city limits.

The officer arrest this person and you apparently are attempting to blame him for enforcing the accepted community's standard for inappropriate and lewd behavior. You insinuate that it's a frame up. Maybe it is in the minds of the gender and sexual behavior centered Stranger staff, but not I would guess in the mind of most people.

Will you folks try and focus on something beside your dick or pussy or your life style or sexual orientation and how it somehow relates to everything else in the freaking universe 24/7. Try that for at least 10 minutes. It will be a new record and experience for you.

Posted by artistdogboy

on June 17, 2009 at 6:24 PM

@21 why are you so hot under the collar? No one here is saying that the officer did anything wrong ... we are just questioning why, nearly a month later and not entirely out of the ordinary amongst the crazies of Seattle streets, is it suddenly blog-worthy... you need to chill out and not just assume that people are being all anti-cop.

Posted by Take it all in on June 17, 2009 at 6:32 PM

In other news tonight, a transgender woman was punched in the face in Belltown just because she was. I would like to extend my heartfelt best wishes and apologies for the human race.

Posted by Jasper's Bitch on June 17, 2009 at 8:50 PM

Okay, so this was obviously altered this story so the "transvestite" is referred to with female pronouns, which means, I assume, that you believe this person identifies as a woman. Why then, are you calling her a transvestite? Not, surely because that's what the cops said? c'mon...
here are the definitions:

"transvestite: a person, typically a man, who derives pleasure from dressing in clothing appropriate to the opposite sex"

"transgendered: identified with a gender other than the biological one"

sooo this woman would be transgendered, correct?

Posted by fauxxxe on June 17, 2009 at 9:00 PM

I suppose this is news because it happened at Seattle Center and Seattle Center is bad because they built that AWFUL skate park so we hate them and therefore they discriminate against transvestites who dangle their weeners in the fountain.
Or something.

Posted by tacomagirl on June 17, 2009 at 10:19 PM

14
Herr Savage has targeted the trannies for the "treatment".
As soon as Youth Pastors are eliminated Seattle will be cleansed of the filthy gender confused.
Look for more outrageous trans-behavior to be highlighted here...

Posted by Goebbels Would be Envious on June 18, 2009 at 7:08 AM