We're high on transit and so is a certain Metro driver who seems to have mistaken route 42 for a rock shop. Dude, you know the 5-0 rides that line. You best conduct business on the 7. It happens to stop near the Columbia City Library, where, the Rainier Valley Post reveals, car prowls are on the rise. It's happening in West Seattle, too, where residents are taking a bite out of crimes. We're ready to fight back ourselves. Someone smashed our car window at Seward Park Monday afternoon. Now we're prowling Craigslist and pawnshops for our stolen laptop. If you see an iBook G4 with the serial number scratched off, buy it--no questions asked--and we'll pay you back, k? more ›

Former Seattlester Courtney alerted us to a weekend burglary in Jackson Place, at 20th and Charles in the Central District, with a twist: the burglars are suspected to be young kids who will knock first to see if anyone's home. According to the Jackson Place Community Council email group, a couple "carefully dressed" young teens were knocking on doors in that area in the early afternoon on the day of the burglary and, if someone answered the door, asking for "Jim." Note to "Jim": can you get in touch with these kids so they can stop stealing laptops from unoccupied houses in the Central? more ›