West Seattle Crime Watch vignette: Clean & not-sober

Just back from reviewing reports at the Southwest Precinct – the big roundup writeup must wait till we’re back from the major community meetings happening in the next few hours (as previewed here last night), but thought we’d mention this one quickly — Of all the shoplifting incidents that police handled in the past few days, this one stood out: Saturday night, 7 pm, a man was seen heading out of QFC @ Westwood Village with a cart full of “unpaid-for” merchandise, consisting of the following, according to a witness: Several large containers of Tide laundry soap, several six-packs of Heineken beer, and “numerous single cans of 211 beer.” He is described only as white and driving a 1990s Honda or Toyota, and got away before he was caught.

Bob Loblaw March 11, 2008 (7:46 pm)

Sure wish you all would just leave me alone on my nights out …

miws March 11, 2008 (8:14 pm)

Must’ve been time for his yearly visit to the laundromat!

Mike

todd in westwood/s.delridge March 11, 2008 (9:31 pm)

sounds like a party to me. All thats missing is the Cheeze Whiz.

Bonus points if you tell me what movie this is from.

“didja get me my Cheeze Whiz boy?”

Eddie March 12, 2008 (6:35 am)

Blues Brothers

Pelicans March 12, 2008 (2:08 pm)

We had a break in in our 5 unit apt. house last July and the only things taken were all of our boxes and jugs of laundry soap, Bounce, bleach, etc. from the laundry room. This was the second time for this in two years!
The officer who took the report just shook his head and said in 15 years it was one of the wierdest things he’d seen. The suspects and stolen items were seen in a small white Honda or Toyota.
As it turned out, the intrepid SPD officer took the theft seriously and put out an alert for the car. It and one suspect were found the next night on California with all our soap still in the stolen waste basket in the back seat. He’d stolen it to supply an abandoned flop house for bums somewhere in South Park/Cloverdale. Guess they were exceptionally clean bums
Scary part: the car was stolen, he had locksmith and burglar tools in the car (probably how he’d gotten through our locked front door), and he’d just been released from prison for car theft. We all know you have to steal a heckuva lot of autos to get prison time for it. He actually asked the officer if he could go free because they got the soap and car back!
Bottom line: Lock up your laundry soap!

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