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Tourists attempting to visit Space Needle attacked by homeless man (Seattle)
KOMO News ^ | June 14, 2018 | Matt Markovich & Tammy Mutasa

Posted on 06/18/2018 7:27:35 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

SEATTLE - A family from Arizona was attacked by a man from a homeless camp just as they parked to visit the Space Needle earlier this month.

Details are just now being made public of the June 2 attack. Officers responded to a reports of a fight in progress in the parking lot next to the Wells Fargo Bank at 3rd Avenue and Denny Way, one block away from the Space Needle.

There is an unsanctioned encampment with about a dozen tents along one-block stretch of 3rd Avenue, that has been growing over the last three months.

Tourists often walk by on a daily basis on their way to the Space Needle and the Pacific Science Center.

Police documents state the family parked in the lot because of its close proximity to the Space Needle. They told police they felt uncomfortable being so close to the tents, especially after someone peeked their head out of a tent and saw them.

(Excerpt) Read more at komonews.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Travel
KEYWORDS: assault; bluezones; homeless; seattle; spaceneedle; urban
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The report describes the man as delusional. It said he thought one of the family members was the TV star Ellen Degeneres and that he was going to marry her, and that’s why he attacked the father.

Yup. Delusional.
1 posted on 06/18/2018 7:27:35 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Delusional? Considering his state of mind, as liberals do, it was a reasonable act, rooted in a case of mistaken identity.

/S


2 posted on 06/18/2018 7:33:13 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine ("Married with children.")
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Unsanctioned encampment?!


3 posted on 06/18/2018 7:34:26 AM PDT by Skywise
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They told police they felt uncomfortable being so close to the tents, especially after someone peeked their head out of a tent and saw them.

Liberals are asking if the guy in the tent violated the Netflix 5 Second Rule. If he didn't, then there isn't any problem.

4 posted on 06/18/2018 7:35:18 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Not that unreasonable to mistake someone for Ellen, but delusional in the extreme to think he could marry a confirmed Lesbo.


5 posted on 06/18/2018 7:36:55 AM PDT by luvbach1 (I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Hope the tourists realize that’s what the locals voted for.


6 posted on 06/18/2018 7:38:26 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3664109/posts
“Woman attacked by strangers on doorstep of her Seattle home (thinks city policies are a key factor)”

Is this Hate-on-Seattle-Day, or is this just a normal day for that far-left city of the future?


7 posted on 06/18/2018 7:40:44 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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Until the Elites are made to suffer the same crimes and outrages, nothing will change. Super-NIMBY, my friend. What if someone were to print maps of elite conclaves and distribute them to the homeless, along with a bus schedule?


8 posted on 06/18/2018 7:43:27 AM PDT by pabianice (LINE)
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It’s Seattle. They should have hugged him and given him five bucks.


9 posted on 06/18/2018 7:45:19 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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> It’s Seattle. They should have hugged him and given him five bucks. <

And directions to the nearest Starbucks.


10 posted on 06/18/2018 7:51:42 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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thought the Space Needle was closed for renovations?...


11 posted on 06/18/2018 7:54:14 AM PDT by Hatteras
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They got needled by a spaced out leftist bum. Oh well there’s always the naked man naked boy statue fountain to visit just up the Alaskan Way.


12 posted on 06/18/2018 8:00:06 AM PDT by tflabo (Varmints)
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If you can’t refuse a person service at Starbucks even if they refuse to buy something and you can’t kick people out of your business at closing time, why don’t the homeless just move into Starbucks and refuse to leave at night?


13 posted on 06/18/2018 8:01:30 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Spygate's clock began in 2015 - what did President Obama know and when did he know it)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I cannot remember. Is Seattle a fully developed sh*thole, or just a sh*thole in development?


14 posted on 06/18/2018 8:02:48 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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Thanks for posting that.

I am enjoying watching my former state slowly rot from socialism.

15 posted on 06/18/2018 8:04:37 AM PDT by MarMema (John James for US Senate. Dump Debbie!! Let's Fly Michigan.)
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thought the Space Needle was closed for renovations?...

Nope, that was WallyWorld!

16 posted on 06/18/2018 8:05:15 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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Seattle has finally become SF north


17 posted on 06/18/2018 8:08:51 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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It’s Seattle. They should have hugged him and given him five bucks.

And directions to the nearest Starbucks.

18 posted on 06/18/2018 8:23:44 AM PDT by Don Corleone (Horse heads work!)
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We went to Seattle for two days while on a couple week long road trip.

We decided to walk from the main tourist area to China Town. As it was only a couple of blocks and broad day light, I figured, probably be OK.

haha. Not.

Pretty much the entire span of those blocks was a bum encampment. Literally. Hundreds upon hundreds on blankets out on the streets where, I guess, people were now living. I wouldn't recommend it.

We just keep ceding real estate. Pretty soon we are all going to be living on a four block section in the panhandle of Northern Idaho and even then, they'll want in.

19 posted on 06/18/2018 8:32:10 AM PDT by riri
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