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By Sara Longley

Aug 09, 2000 -- A UW student locks her bike to a parking meter on a Sunday evening while visiting a friend who lives on University Way Northeast. When she returns for her bike on Monday morning, she finds that the cable lock has been cut and the bicycle is gone. As she walks back towards the UW campus she sees her bike sitting in a hedge behind the University Bookstore on 15th Avenue Northeast. As she grabs it, she hears a male voice from inside the hedge asking, "What are you doing?" He says nothing more, however, and she takes her bike. She tells police that there was another male in the hedge and that they appeared to be street youth. Police search the area and locate a male and a female who say they were sleeping in the hedge. The victim says they are not the pair she saw earlier. She also says that, while the bicycle was recovered, several parts have been removed from the frame...

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A View Ridge woman throws a party on a Monday night, inviting about 40 friends. During the party, there is a knock at the door and she answers it. At the door are 10 young male strangers who ask to be admitted to the party. Since she does not know them, she denies their request. During this conversation, the woman notices that one of the men has a gun partly concealed in his waistband. She becomes afraid and tells them all to leave. They do so, some of them departing in a red Acura. The woman goes back to her party, but soon notices some of the men peering in through the windows. A short time later she receives a phone call from the suspects saying that they are sorry for trying to crash the party and asking again to be allowed in. At this point she calls police. She tells officers that she does not know any of the suspects but that they live nearby. Officers visit the location she gives and see the red Acura and five young men hanging out in front of the house. The victim is transported to the location and identifies two of the men but does not see the man who had the gun. The party-crashers she identifies are investigated and released and she is transported back to her house...

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A Ballard woman rides her bicycle to a local tire store to pick up her car. She leaves her bike against the wall next to the door of the business for about two minutes while she conducts her business inside. When she returns her bike is gone. There were no witnesses to the theft. The bike is described as a MGX silver mountain bike, value $300...

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A man is observed by witnesses as he hides behind parked cars along Leary Way Northwest on a Monday shortly after 5 p.m. The witnesses see the man wait for cars to drive by, then jump out in front of them, forcing the drivers to slam on their brakes to avoid hitting him. One witness tells officers he saw the man do this three times, and a second witness says he saw the man do it twice today but that the man does this about every four days. Officers contact the man, who they find standing in the middle of the southbound lanes of Leary Way. He is handcuffed and placed inside a patrol car to prevent him from running into the street. The officer who handcuffs him notes a strong odor of alcohol on the man's breath. The man at first has a hard time remembering his own name, and says it is because of "his mind." When the officer asks him why he had been trying to jump in front of cars, he says he wasn't, that he was just walking in the street and they were "trying to kill him." The man is taken to Harborview for a mental evaluation...

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Two young men in their late teens enter a store on Northwest Market Street in Ballard on a Monday at 4:35 p.m. They split up once inside, and the clerk observes them walking around a lot and "acting suspicious." One of them brings an item to the counter and asks to be rung up. As he does this, his companion grabs several items and starts to walk toward the counter. The first man pays for his item, and as the clerk turns to get change both men run out the door, the second man taking his items without paying. They flee eastbound on Market Street and an area check does not turn them up. The clerk says the man who paid for his item has a tattoo of a salamander between his left thumb and forefinger...

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A man drives eastbound on North 60th Street, approaching Aurora Avenue North on a Monday just before 9 p.m. A white GMC sport utility vehicle turns off Aurora at high speed, nearly hitting his car. He confronts the driver about his reckless driving. The driver says, "I'm Big Daddy, don't you know who I am? I own this road!" His passenger adds, "If I had a drink in me, you'd be on the ground right now!" The eastbound driver responds, "I have a 9mm and I don't think I'd need it for you!" The driver of the SUV then lifts his shirt, revealing a "Glock 9mm semi-automatic handgun" and says, "I've got mine right here!" The first driver tells the SUV driver he is going to call police and that he is writing down the SUV's license plate number. The SUV driver replies, "You just do that, [blacked-out text], now I know where you work!" He is referring to the patch on the first man's work coveralls. An area check by police does not reveal the white GMC SUV...

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A store near North 105th Street and Aurora Avenue North holds a "tent sale" in the parking lot. The tent is open and, sometime between 7 and 8 p.m., thieves steal about 50 table skirts that were wrapped around the tables. Value of the table skirts is unknown...

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