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By Sara Longley

Nov 08, 2001 -- A tow truck driver arrives at a University District location at 12:30 a.m. on a Saturday to remove a car. As he is hooking the vehicle up to his tow rig, the vehicle's owner arrives and tells him she will move her car if he will set it back down. He agrees to set the car down if she will pay him half the tow fee for his trouble. A deal is struck, but after the car is on the ground she refuses to pay. She then tries to handle the tow rigging on the truck as the driver is moving it, and she claims afterward that she was hit by the truck. At this point, the tow driver calls police, but the woman leaves with friends in the offending vehicle before officers arrive. The tow driver does not remember the license number of her car...

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A man parks his car at Golden Gardens on a Sunday afternoon between 2 and 4 p.m. When he returns from his pleasant beach stroll, he finds that the rear window has been broken out and his leather jacket is missing...

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A pizza delivery man delivers a pizza near the intersection of 43rd and Stone Way N in Wallingford at about 8:20 on a Friday night. As he is returning to his car, he is approached by three young men. The first asks where his money is. The pizza man runs toward the street. The suspect yells, "You better give me your money or I'll beat your ass!" Then the suspects run away. The pizza man calls police, but an area check for the three suspects turns up nothing...

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A Crown Hill resident reports that unknown suspects threw eggs at her house over a Friday night, causing $200 in damage to her living room and bedroom windows...

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Unknown suspects break into a University District construction site between Friday afternoon and Monday morning. They are unable to enter the house itself, but steal two 2x6 pieces of wood from the grounds...

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Two women are walking at Green Lake on a Saturday at about 1 p.m. when they see another woman walking in traffic on Green Lake Way near the south end of the lake. The woman does not respond to their pleas to return to the sidewalk and continues to walk southbound as cars honk and swerve around her. The two women call police after failing to communicate with the strange woman, fearing that she will be hit by a car. When officers arrive, she has walked to N 50th Street and Fremont Avenue. They are equally unsuccessful at verbally getting the woman to pay attention, and one officer physically escorts her out of the street. The woman does not respond to questions about her name and address, and attempts to walk away several times while she is being questioned. Medical personnel are called and the woman is transported to Harborview for a mental evaluation...

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The clerk at a gas station/convenience store on Lake City Way calls police to report a theft at 10:50 p.m. on a Saturday. The suspect, a man about 20 years old, entered the front door, took three boxes of cigars and fled eastbound on NE 120th Street. Police are unsuccessful in locating him...

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A young man pushes a cart full of spray paint cans around a large department store in Ballard on a Saturday afternoon. The store's loss prevention officer sees him park the cart in the garden section and leave through one set of doors. Shortly afterward, she sees him come back in through another set of doors and put some of the pain cans into plastic bags. She watches as he pushes the cart past the checkout stands and out the doors without paying. She and another officer apprehend the boy in the parking lot and escort him to the store's security office. Police arrive and read the boy his rights. He says he was just getting the paint for friends...

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A Green Lake man reports that his $1,100 bicycle is stolen between 11 p.m. Wednesday and 7:30 a.m. Thursday from under the back porch of his house. The bike was not locked, and the area is not locked...

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A man browses in a N Aurora Avenue convenience store at 5:20 p.m. on a Saturday. He explores the small store for over half an hour before the clerk asks him to leave. The man says he wants to use the bathroom first, but the clerk refuses. The man picks up two 18-can packs of beer and walks out without paying. Police find the man sitting on top of the beer at a nearby bus stop. Upon contacting the suspect, officers discover he is extremely intoxicated, more so than they feel is safe. Medical personnel are called and the man is transported for detox...

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