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Friday, January 22, 2010

Crime The Crescent, Some Crack, and a Baseball Bat

Posted by on Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:23 PM

Posted by news intern Jon Brock

On the evening of January 14, a man called police to report that he'd been assaulted with a baseball bat three days earlier, a police report says. The man told officers he was by himself at Capitol Hill bar the Crescent Lounge, "which he described as 'a gay bar, but a place that was cool even though he was straight and married.'"

At the Crescent, he met a pimp—no description was given—and the the pimp's female prostitute, the report continues. For unexplained reasons, the man "offered to drive [the pimp and prostitute] around to a few locations in the Central District. After about thirty minutes of driving around, the couple started smoking crack in his truck." At that point, the man pulled over his truck and took a piss on the side of the road. As he looked back towards his truck, he saw the suspect "swing a baseball bat at him, hitting him above his left eye." The pimp then fled on foot (the report does not explain where the prostitute went).

The man then "drove himself home then to Swedish Hospital in Ballard," the police records conclude. "He delayed in reporting this because he did not want to report it until his wife talked him into it."

 

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Dougsf 1
Let's ignore how messed up this dudes story is and the amazing lies he's telling his wife right now for a minute, and focus on HOLY CRAP THE CRESCENT IS STILL THERE? I'm actually curious about the history of that place.
Posted by Dougsf on January 22, 2010 at 12:37 PM
d rock 2
lies for sure! what a tool bag.
Posted by d rock http://www.13th-Grade.COM on January 22, 2010 at 12:56 PM
Rotten666 3
The crescent is hilarious. A great place to go when I feel like singing Danny's Song before a motley crew of drunks, gays, and hipsters. But pimps and prostitutes? The crescent is shady, but c'mon.
Posted by Rotten666 on January 22, 2010 at 12:58 PM
very bad homo 4
I absolutely LOVE The Crescent, but I would never get into a car with anyone I met there.
Posted by very bad homo on January 22, 2010 at 1:17 PM
coolio 5
so this pimp just pull a baseball bat out of his pants or something?... I think this guys story is bogus.
Posted by coolio on January 22, 2010 at 1:22 PM
gloomy gus 6
I am so glad "his wife talked him into" reporting this wonderful evening to the cops. I can imagine that conversation with her.
Posted by gloomy gus on January 22, 2010 at 1:23 PM
7
@5 - The report stated that the baseball bat belonged to the victim. It was in the back seat of the truck.

-Jon Brock
Posted by Unpaid Intern on January 22, 2010 at 1:30 PM
pissy mcslogbot 8
they played that guy like he was an ACORN employee.

keep on lookout for said pimp: http://media.costumesinc.com/costumesinc…

Posted by pissy mcslogbot on January 22, 2010 at 1:31 PM
Betsy Ross 9
The same thing happened to me once, only it was a dog-catcher and a great dane sniffing glue in my Winnebago.
Posted by Betsy Ross on January 22, 2010 at 1:31 PM
Bill W. 10
Wait, didn't something like this happen in the movie The Hangover?
Posted by Bill W. http://www.seattlegayscene.com on January 22, 2010 at 2:06 PM

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