He stole postal vehicles, mailbox keys, mail, credit cards, and identities. A lot of them. Door cameras and security cameras in stores where he tried to use the credit cards saw him do it (see photo). After six months of this, the law caught up with Johny Mixayboua, 27, who’s now cooling his h[...]
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February 4th, 2023 - 12:13 pm § in Law and Courts
When Seattle cops confronted a man in a meltdown, his neighbors protected him
As Seattle cops with drawn guns surrounded a man armed with a phone having a meltdown, neighbors rallied to form a human shield around him until the police gave up and left. Read story here and watch video below. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Seattle woman makes global news by getting scammed by an employer
London-based Reuters is one of the world’s largest news organizations, with 3,100 journalists in 200 locations worldwide (profile here). Their biggest headline on Monday, October 17, 2022, featured a woman from Shoreline, Washington, a Seattle suburb. The story (read it here) begins, “Wh[...]
September 29th, 2022 - 12:01 am § in Science
Why doesn’t Seattle get hurricanes?
Because we have too many Democrats here, and hurricanes prefer Republicans. Hee hee, just kidding. Actually, because the Pacific Ocean is too cold, and West Coast winds blow in the wrong direction. Hurricanes are an equatorial belt phenomenon, not least because they get their energy from warm water,[...]
Seattle Pacific U. sues for right to discriminate against gays
Seattle Pacific University, a private Christian college, sued the Washington attorney general on Wednesday, July 27, 2022, to halt an investigation of its hiring practices. SPU doesn’t hire LGBQT faculty or staff. In May, its trustees reaffirmed that policy, triggering protests by faculty and [...]
June 4th, 2022 - 11:18 pm § in Misc.
How not to exit from I-5 in downtown Seattle (video)
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April 27th, 2022 - 8:51 pm § in Misc.
Seattle suburb settles police shooting for $7.5 million
The facts are complicated. Andrea Churna (photo, left), 39, daughter of a retired Michigan state police commander, and ex-wife of a Microsoft lawyer, kept a gun in her Redmond, Washington, apartment because she thought she was being stalked. On the night of September 20, 2020, she called police beca[...]
April 5th, 2022 - 11:31 am § in Law and Courts
Seattle cops target serial shoplifters (video)
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March 14th, 2022 - 9:12 pm § in Law and Courts
Why people avoid downtown Seattle
Kim Hayes, 62, worked at Seattle’s Harborview Medical Center as a nurse. Now she’s a patient there. Hayes was assaulted in downtown Seattle on March 2, 2022, by a stranger described as a “homeless career criminal” who threw her down concrete stairs leading to an underground l[...]
February 20th, 2022 - 9:36 pm § in Misc.
Seattle’s “Beauty and the Beast” musicians’ strike
This month marks the 25th anniversary of Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theater musicians’ strike. The labor movement has always found strength in numbers. This strike stands as one Seattle history’s most dramatic examples of union solidarity and strength in numbers. In February 1997, a tiny[...]