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Started 4 months ago by gracie
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First you shoot your gun about four times on Saturday.(direction of noise sounded like either by railroad tracks or across from them) Each time the seagulls in parking lot at north end would go airborne. About 3 cars left. Then shooting stopped & few minutes later this white truck came & kept circling in the lot. I realized you were trying to hit the birds & when you almost hit a Canadian Goose (think it may have made contact with truck but was fine) I backed up my car to let you know someone was watching you. You took off like a bat out of hell..a cowardly bat.
Yesterday I pulled into the parking lot & where the seagulls congregate there was a dead seagull. It looked like it was just resting. Realized it was dead but didn't see any injuries to it until I pulled up right next to it. The seagull had been shot through the head. It was an obvious bullet wound.
So big man you got your seagull but have you thought that a stray bullet could strike an innocent child, pet or adult.

Posted 4 months ago #
boatgeek

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Did you call 911? If so, was there a police response?

Posted 4 months ago #
gracie

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I did call 911 yesterday & they referred me to Animal Control - who was closed for the holiday. They didn't seem to care that someone was shooting a gun.

Posted 4 months ago #
VeganBiker

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gracie - what time of day was this?
It is illegal to fire a gun in Seattle and also illegal to shoot seagulls. Very interesting that SPD did not follow up, although it is difficult to catch someone doing this unless you get a license plate number and a make/model of the vehicle. I hope they get caught. Very dangerous thing to do, firing a weapon in a public place.
One of the problems at GG is the folks that feed old bread to the seagulls and crows. The bread is mostly junk food and the birds don't need to be fed they find their own food, but still these people dump loads of junk food there every day.
On Sunday I saw a person dumping piles of old popcorn at the Commons Park for the crows and seagulls! I imagine they think they are doing the birds a favor but that stuff is not good for them, it just fills them up with little nutrition just like it does with humans.

Posted 4 months ago #
phoo

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gracie: Perhaps start packing a camera to golden gardens? Even better if you can get his license plate!

Posted 4 months ago #
gracie

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Don't remember time when shots fired - about 2:00 maybe. Yesterday it was around 3:00. I wanted to get the license number on that guy's truck but he was gone, gone, gone. And there are a lot of white trucks out there. It looked like a Chevy to me.

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BuffaloHawk

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VB .. little nutrition

Did you know Billy Joel is the iceberg lettuce of Rock and Roll music;)

Posted 4 months ago #
gracie

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phoo - good idea about carrying camera. The one on my phone isn't great at all for distant shots.

Posted 4 months ago #
Edog

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I simply don't believe the comments in the op.

The idea the police would not respond to a 911 call about gunfire in city limits does not pass the laugh test.

Frankly the idea is so far fetched, it would be more believable if a rat swimming in the a drain pipe suddenly put his fingers in your wine and pulled out a fly and expected you to drink it in his cold house.

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Edog

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And Billy Joel and Elton John are the Waldorf Salad of easy listening.

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I think of Billy Joel being more like a coleslaw.

Posted 4 months ago #
gracie

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Edog - yep, I made it all up. I was sitting here thinking what can I post that will be full of lies. NOT. Everything I have said here has been the truth. If you choose to believe otherwise, go with it. That is your opinion, as wrong as it is.
I was perplexed why she (911) focused more on the bird than the issue of someone shooting it.
Buffalo - totally agree with you about Billy Joel.

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BuffaloHawk

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When Billy Joel & Elton John toured together it should have been called "The elevator tour" ;)

Posted 4 months ago #
onederfullone

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Buff, show a little respect, it's not my cup of tea, but I'd give anything to have that many platinum albums on my wall.

Gracie, I went down the street to check out what certainly sounded like gun fire, it turned out to be someone setting plates onto a slab for a carport. It is not always what it seems to be, 911 will certainly respond if you've got something more than a day late report of you swear you heard something, and you've got a dead bird.

A pellet gun will vacate a bird's head, fwiw. (not that it's legal)

Anyway, I'm sorry you are taking crap for your vigilance, you did the right thing, imo.

At least, folks should pay attention. Maybe. I won't hold my breath. ;-)

Posted 4 months ago #
ballardmike

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How long can you hold your breath brother?!

Posted 4 months ago #
Edog

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This thread reminds me of Manti Te'o'

Posted 4 months ago #
onederfullone

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what doesn't?

btw, your fetishes don't belong in public...

Posted 4 months ago #
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it is a rather 'Teo-like' story.

especially if gracie wins a bunch of awards for good-citizenship.

I still believe you gracie. also, I agree w/ oneder that you should've called 911 when it happened.

Posted 4 months ago #
Ernie

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From the timeline presented it sounds like the OP called the police on Monday to report that a seagull had been shot, and that previously (Saturday) gun shots had been heard.

I think the 911 operator's response was appropriate considering that there was no activity at the time of the call.

Posted 4 months ago #
shanana

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I also find it absurd that SPD wouldn't respond to someone firing a gun, regardless of the target, but perhaps OP should contact DFW, as they're the ones who deal with illegal taking of protected species. http://wdfw.wa.gov/enforcement/reporting_violations.html (Though, as others have said, without a license plate or other solid description, nothing's likely to come of it.)

A call to SPD's North Precinct or the non-emergency line to ask why the hell they didn't respond would probably also be in order.

Posted 4 months ago #
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I love a good passive-aggressive "To the jerk who steals my parking space" rant. But gunshots is not the time for it. For the love of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, if you hear gunshots, call it in to 911! Right away, not three days later! The cops can't do squat about it if they aren't called then. They might not be able to do squat if the jerk disappears before they get there, but at least there's a chance.

Posted 4 months ago #
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I wonder if it's the same guy that shot those four bald eagles out in Granite Falls:

http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2020158331_deadeaglesxml.html?prmid=4939

we may have fowl serial killer on our hands.

Posted 4 months ago #
gracie

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Ernie & others - I did call the day I saw the dead bird & got no response other than to call Animal Control (who was closed)
The day of the shots I didn't call and should have - although not sure what the police could have done since I didn't know exactly where shots coming from and no evidence. Plus I got focused when that truck showed up very shortly after the shots were fired & trying to get his license number.
GI - I did see that about the bald eagles. That was a travesty & appears whoever did it just for the heck of it.
GI - thanks for believing in me. I appreciate that. But get an award for good citizenship - now that is really a stretch and I'm taking that comment as tongue-in-cheek. And yes, I should have called with the initial gunshots but got sidetracked with that guy in the truck. I just hope whoever did it doesn't come back to Golden Gardens and do it again.

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BuffaloHawk

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boatgeek +1

Who do I call today about some illegal fireworks I heard and saw on New Years Eve;)

Posted 4 months ago #
bambooboy

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if you called a day after the fact, the dispatcher was correct to direct you to animal control, at that point is about a dead seagull.
I have to say that I really don't understand why you wouldn't call immediately if someone was firing a gun here. The police would have reacted if you did. There is no possible way they wouldn't have responded in an immediate fashion.

Posted 4 months ago #
pennygirl

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Lesson of the day: When you hear gunshots call 911.
Prayer of the day: They will respond.
Hillbilly realism: Sometimes they don't. And if they do they take their sweet time.

Posted 4 months ago #
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there was a guy in my high school who would keep a gun in his glove-compartment.

when he'd peel out or do a few doughnuts in the parking lot, he'd sometimes fire a few shots in the air like a cowboy.

I don't believe anyone ever called the police on him, at least not in the many times I saw this happen.

Posted 4 months ago #
racerX

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Edog and bambooboy +1

Posted 4 months ago #
pennygirl

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Who cares. Sloane Stevens is about to beat Serena Williams. How's that for a threadjack?!

Posted 4 months ago #
pennygirl

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And beat her she did. Back to whatever you were all talking about.

Posted 4 months ago #
racerX

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Thanks for the update, PG.

Posted 4 months ago #
pennygirl

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You are very welcome racerX.

Murray is now leading in the first set. Mens' Quarters.

Posted 4 months ago #
yourFriend

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gracie, most of your posts are drama, but this one just does not make sense to me either. SPD would reply to a firearm shooting, plain and simple.

Posted 4 months ago #
gracie

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Think what you may.

Posted 4 months ago #
BuffaloHawk

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Gracie

Why do I get the feeling you stomp your feet a lot when reading and posting in the forum;)

Posted 4 months ago #
pennygirl

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Murray won. Onwards and upwards.

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gracie

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Buff -Nope. I have never been a stomp my feet type person. But I do get frustrated when people here call me a liar -people who don't even know me. If that is what you consider "stomping my feet" in replying to them, okay.

Posted 4 months ago #
stopgo

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Did we ever figure out if this was a hoax? This could be the biggest things since manti te'o

Posted 4 months ago #
gracie

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Well hello stopgo! No hoax. Just the facts and only the facts...... Have a good one, Stopgo.

Posted 4 months ago #
BuffaloHawk

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Well played Mayumi Heene

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gracie

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Not nice, time out for you Buff!!!! Wish I had that imagination (not really) or wouldn't feel guilty about doing a hoax. Not in my makeup plus serves no purpose in my life <stomping feet>

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Edog

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That jokes been done played already, Stopgo!

http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=15350#post-207108

Great minds think alike I guess....

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racerX

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Facts?

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