Comments on: Garbage cans and mailboxes blown up overnight

By: AndreaL

AndreaL — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 01:00:43 +0000

Nothing better than a bunch of lowlifes driving around our fair neighborhood at night, playing with incendiary devices!!!

I hope they realize that blowing things up isn't child's play and is a federal offense, and blowing up mailboxes will get the US Postal Service Police on your ass. Niiiiiice.

By: jm

jm — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:59:01 +0000

Results of poor parenting.

By: 59thandBlake

59thandBlake — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:24:10 +0000

Congrats Ballard…. This is what happens when kids no longer have safe and positive places to go such as Sunset Bowl and Denny's.

By: A Knowing Mess

A Knowing Mess — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:17:08 +0000

Where (cross-street wise) on 95th and 97th were the mailboxes?

By: Cranky

Cranky — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:06:14 +0000

That would have been my yard waste container getting it. The locking lids on the small ones make a spectacular *boom!*.

By: jm

jm — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:49:02 +0000

Must be the teen Taliban.

By: krwnhll

krwnhll — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:12:34 +0000

it was already ruined, MARCCC! CK CK CK

By: krwnhll

krwnhll — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:10:53 +0000

Also its only a federal offense if they get caught. which they wont. cops dont give a shit, only you guys do.

By: krwnhll

krwnhll — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:00:07 +0000

YEEEEE! ay bay bay

By: crownpill

crownpill — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:50:24 +0000

send a note to crownpill@gmail.com

By: MB

MB — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:25:28 +0000

It was my mailbox they blew up on 97th so I'd certainly be interested in talking with you.

By: crownpill

crownpill — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:34:52 +0000

Hey Zack,

I'm over by you and have and idea of which group of kids is up to no good. Reply and maybe we can converse.

By: dvacc

dvacc — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:00:16 +0000

speaking of teens and their mischief – there have been a lot of teens getting bums to buy them beer at the corner store at 28th and market. kids will be kids, but they are starting to drink in the parking lot there and i saw one pee behind the dumpster! i'm sick of these brats ruining my neighborhood – what gives?

By: Zack

Zack — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:48:47 +0000

Heard the booms loud and clear right outside our house on 97th & 8th. Cautiously moved to the window to see if they were there, but didn't see anything. Earlier this week some punks smashed my car's rear-view mirror and dumped soda all over the hood…sounds like the same kids.

By: Terri Stone

Terri Stone — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:59:58 +0000

I live next to the house whose recycling bin was blasted into the stratosphere on 70th and Dibble. When we woke up, we thought we were in life-threatening danger. It terrified my whole family.

The police were very kind to us and helped us to calm down after discovering it was probably just a bunch of yee-haws with leftover fireworks. Thank you Seattle Police. We were able to go to sleep knowing you we tracking those idiots down.

By: lia

lia — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:56:13 +0000

I live near Salmon Bay elementary, and I heard a loud bang around 1am. It sounded like an explosion. Was this is?

By: Ballardite

Ballardite — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:51:50 +0000

Totally, totally lame and unacceptable. Let's all be on the lookout. I just don't understand kids that ruin personal property as a form of fun. Robberies aren't good either, but at least they make sense. The person takes money or things that they can then use. Taggers and hooligans like this need a good lesson like a night in jail or a huge fine so their behavior can be nipped in the bud. Guessing and hoping that most of them would get freaked out and quit.

By: TheRaven

TheRaven — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:32:37 +0000

Kids with pipe bombs? WtF?

By: Structural

Structural — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:14:02 +0000

M80s!

By: Tastyviddles

Tastyviddles — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:59:40 +0000

We live near Adams Elementary – and the garbage cans up on the playfield were all blown up there as well (along with the copious amounts of dog poo bags that were in said garbage cans)

By: Meghan O'Connor

Meghan O'Connor — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:56:54 +0000

I heard those booms all the way over near 65th and 24th, wow. And Now I wonder about the car window glass I saw in a pile in a parking space over at the big Fred Meyer the other day. Agreed, let's be on the lookout for the license plate of these little monsters.

By: factmonkey

factmonkey — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:34:26 +0000

I wonder if these are the same yahoos that were trying to blow up the port-a-potty at Ballard Commons Park late in the evening on the 4th of July. I live right across the street, and there were a series of five or six of the loudest booms I've ever heard from about 10pm to 12:30am. I called 911 a couple of times to report it, but never saw any response. When they finally decided that the potty wasn't going to yield, their parting shot was to plant an explosive inside a yellow pages book. That created a lovely shower of paper bits that blanketed all of 58th for someone else to clean up. Losers!!!

By: chopper_74

chopper_74 — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:33:02 +0000

Let's get a good description/license plate of the suspect van folks.
Forward it to the SPD.
Summer is just getting underway, gotta nip it in the bud.

By: Ballardmom

Ballardmom — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:17:28 +0000

I wonder if it's the same “kids in a van” who drove by our house the other day and threw a Mike & Ike's bottle at us in our yard. And when I came storming out to the street in a huff one of them yelled, “Oh shit!” and they threw a bunch of empty alcohol bottles and a bunch of junk food wrappers into my neighbor's yard and drove off really fast. Lovely.

By: KF

KF — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:15:56 +0000

a federal offense…nice. stupid kids

By: shaug

shaug — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:08:00 +0000

This is why we can't have nice things.