Now that weather woes have mostly passed (for now, at least), we’re going back through the WSB inbox to be sure we didn’t miss anything to share with you. Here are two alerts from WSB’ers who wanted to get out the word about scary incidents that happened to them – read on for the details:
First, from Kate:
I wanted to report a incident of road rage at Westwood Village by the video store. My husband pulled into the parking lot at Westwood Village (Saturday) afternoon. It was very crowded and a lot of cars were lined up trying to get in and out of the parking lot. For no reason, a violent man in another car jumped out, started screaming racial profanities and threatening my husband. He came over to the passenger window and starting hitting the glass, screaming for my husband to get out of the car. My husband said this man was so violent and angry that he feared for his life. My husband decided the best thing to do would be to get out of the parking lot, but the man followed him up 35th. There was a slower car in front of my husband, but this made the man angrier, so luckily he decided to go by him instead while yelling more profanities and threats. Luckily he didn’t see where we lived. My husband was very shaken up when he got home. I called to Seattle Police, since the West Seattle blog says to report anything suspicious. However, they said there was nothing they could do, since we didn’t have a license plate number. Just wanted to send a warning to people shopping at Westwood Village. Needless to say we won’t be shopping at Westwood Village anytime soon. The police told me this is very common right now, since so many people are overwhelmed by the snow and holidays. However, it’s frustrating you can’t do anything when you feel your life is in danger.
We asked Kate if she had any descriptive information about the car or the person. She e-mailed back: “A little bit more information, my husband told me later the man was not just threatening him, but threatening to kill him. He said he was sure if he got out of the car he would be dead. The car was a red SUV or truck with a cab on the back. He said it looked like a Toyota 4 Runner or similar. The suspect was a very large African American man. He was around 6′ 4″ with a muscular build. He had the build of a weight lifter or body builder.”
Next, from MAS, warning about a dog he describes as an “uncontrolled aggressive pit bull” at 32nd/Webster (map):
Just a heads up for folks that walk their dogs in the area. I walk my dog past this house every day, and know about the dog – usually contained in the fenced yard. (Friday) it was off leash in the alley and attacked my dog as we went by (my dog was on a leash.) I managed to get between them and the owner finally got control of his dog before I was forced to hurt it. As far as I can tell, just a couple of patches of hair pulled out, no lasting damage. I don’t recommend going anywhere near that intersection with or without your dog at this point though.
I told the owner he was violating the leash law, no response – but he did want to make sure that Charlie wasn’t hurt. Since I couldn’t find any obvious injuries at the time and Charlie REALLY wanted to get out of there I just left it at that and came home. Since I encounter off-leash uncontrolled dogs about every six months walking my dog, I expect I’ll have to start carrying mace or some ammonia spray to deal with them. My only other option would be actually injuring the loose dog, and I want to avoid that since it’s not the dog’s fault.
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