Comments on: Radio Shack robbed at gunpoint

By: Concerned

Concerned — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 17:37:00 +0000

It’s funny just the other day I saw a police officer wearing a puffy coat, why not throw him in jail too….
Atlanta, L.A., shut the hell up!!!
Were talking about a drug addict looking for his next fix, who no doubt will end up in prison.
Quit stereotyping people, I’ve got a puffy coat and I’m not out looking to rob a freaking store.

By: SPG

SPG — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:28:52 +0000

yes. they do. But it's become such a fashion statement that you can't just assume that everyone in a big puffy coat is a criminal.

By: gobigblue

gobigblue — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:25:56 +0000

Ummm…people are actually shopping at Radio Shack. That's why their stock has gone from about $9 to $15+ in the last 6 months, and is basically back where it was before the s&*t hit the fan and the market cratered a year ago. Their stock price has also been buoyed by the $290 million share repurchase program they recently instituted.

And they've decided to sponsor a professional cycling team with the biggest name in cycling…Lance Armstrong… as team leader.

It's amazing that they can accomplish all of this when nobody is shopping there.

By: gobigblue

gobigblue — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:25:19 +0000

By: sasha111

sasha111 — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:04:44 +0000

Big Puffy Coats hide weapons quite well.

This really isn't lost on you guys right?

By: babysmoke

babysmoke — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:00:27 +0000

It's awful that ANYONE is getting robbed, especially at gunpoint…but I find it odd that a Radio Shack was the target. From the description of being robbed at gunpoint, I just assume that money (and perhaps some merchandise) was taken. If that's the case, the robber(s) were probably out-and-about at that hour and didn't exactly plan ahead for a big score since they hit the store shortly after opening, or they are just morons. Armed robbery on a retail business in the morning before they have had any sales for the day? What a big score…bundles of singles and rolls of quarters in the till.

By: motorrad

motorrad — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:00:14 +0000

Xphd- I bet they listen to that damn rap and hippety hop music too. Nice job on pulling out the Atlanta diss added to the usual and oh so tired LA mud slinging. You don't know anything about culture of the under 25 set do you? It's OK.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:08:28 +0000

I think the Radio Shack on Crown Hill was robbed last week. We were at our preschool and the police came to say that an armed robber was hiding out in the neighborhood after just robbing the radio shack. He told us to please beware and shut the doors. That was about 9:30 AM on Thursday.

By: lathum

lathum — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:46:51 +0000

good thing there are plans for low income housing…

By: keyboardcat

keyboardcat — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:41:49 +0000

Ballard still coming up in the world. Someones house gets busted in and then the rat shack gets hit.

By: Lube

Lube — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:34:31 +0000

I grew up in Ballard and definitely knew at least a few fellow lifetime Ballard residents who wore puffy jackets.

By: boardbrown

boardbrown — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:57:49 +0000

Radio Shack? Jeez, if I were going to rob a place I'd pick one that people actually shop at. I bet that loot bag was pretty light.

Maybe he was stealing some radio controlled toys…and batteries.

By: kim

kim — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:18:07 +0000

exactly!

By: Bark more, Wag Less

Bark more, Wag Less — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:56:02 +0000

“welcome to the new Ballard!”

Yes, no doubt one of those overpaid tech workers/yuppies, living in a condo.

By: SPG

SPG — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:40:26 +0000

I have a couple big puffy coats. Granted I don't wear them outside the dead of winter and not even that often then, unless I'm heading up to the pass, but really…all crime can be solved by arresting anyone with a big puffy coat?
The perp is just as likely to be homegrown no matter how much you want to blame “the others”.

By: Name

Name — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:22:00 +0000

That description matches a group of young men that frequently hang out up in Crown Hill, behind the Petco and by the Value Village. There are 2 or 3 that wear the big puffy coats (black coats), standing around or walking up and down the street smokin and jokin around…

By: stopthebuzz

stopthebuzz — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:50:56 +0000

Your argument is iron clad.

By: xaphaeod

xaphaeod — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:31:32 +0000

Hey, welcome to the new Ballard!

Big puffy coat: sign of a recent arrival.

Honestly, nobody who has lived here for more than a few weeks wears a big, puffy coat. This is the mark of some idiot who has just arrived fro LA or Atlanta, and all they know about Seattle is that it's "up north" and it rains a lot. They think it's cold here, so they wear a puffy coat.

I swear, the police should just round up everybody they see hanging out on the streetcorners standing around in puffy coats.

By: AH

AH — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:58:02 +0000

What the hell is Ballard coming to?! OMGosh.