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[mav0414]

Sure inside the stores but what about on the premises; parking lot, gas station area etc?

I was a victim of an assault Sunday afternoon at the Seattle 4th avenue COSTCO store. Posted an earlier blog about the incident and Seattle Police case number, Officers contact phone # too.

I sent an email to COSTCO corporate about the situation. Specifically how the employees in the area of the assault (gas station area) could have reacted much better by contacting security and certainly calling 911 when they witnessed the assault. My assailant grabbed my cell phone away as I was trying to call 911 and tossed it, out of my reach. People witnessing the crime mostly got the heck out of there ASAP. I’m lucky to not be seriously hurt.

Corporate COSTCO’s response to email: NONE!!!!!!!!!

Lack of security cameras, untrained staff-employees for such an emergency. And comments from store management staff such as:

FRont end manager: “what happens in the parking lot is considered a civil matter and Costco cannot get involved”

Security Mgr: “you have to call the police. It happened in the parking area and we consider this not our responsibility”

WOW, as a business owner and HR trained, I am SHOCKED!

Maybe I should get an attorney.

Below an excerpt of the assault incident, given to Seattle Police:

I was assaulted this afternoon while waiting in a gas line at the Seattle 4th avenue COSTCO store, very right hand pump lane, approx 2:00-2:10 pm, Sunday, Nov 15.

On the way home from a morning trip, I dropped by COSTO for gas and dog food etc. Waiting for an available gas pump, all of a sudden my truck driver’s door jerks open violently. In leans this big fella; 28-34 years old, 6-3+, 230lbs+, Caucasion, short dark hair, clean cut, wearing blue jeans, tennis shoes and Seahawk jersey and cap….and grabs me trying to jerk me outta my Toyota Tundra-white. But the seat belt grabs and HE is unable to pull me out to “teach me something I’ll never F___ forget…”. I had no exit, no chance to flee or drive off to remove myself from the area. My vehicle was boxed in front and rear by other cars. The now opened driver’s door was blocked by the big guy standing there, now I’m fending off his assault and my mind starts considering alternatives…to save MY LIFE or from serious Body harm.

Unbelievably, I stay relatively calm and ask him to exit my vehicle space and let go of me. Now HE clenches his fists and readies to slam one into my face. I pull back and say: “see that hunting gear behind my seat, If you hit me I WILL SHOOT YOU. HE looks and sees the camo and asst hunting gear, camo backpack etc behind the seat. Then HE pulls away and steps back, proceeds to turn his Seahawk hat around so the cap’s bill is in the back and makes fists and starts coming again. Now I pull the cell phone and dial 911. HE says fine call the cops it will be too late and proceeds to rip my cell phone out of my hands and toss it into the passenger side feet well (I later find my cell phone under the truck’s passenger seat). Being seatbelted in, I cannot reach the phone. HE misses with the first punch as I leaned over attempting to reach my cell phone. NOW I reach behind my drivers seat. LOUD CLICK, I un-snap the SOC knife attached to my backpack. HE immediately backs off, out of my drivers space when HE hears the click!

I never show him the 6″ SOG blade in my hand, still hidden behind my center console-rear seat area. My vision focused on his neck and ready to react if necessary.

I still don’t know HOW in the world I stayed so CALM!

HE yells profanity about almost hitting his pregnant wife in the COSTCO parking lot crosswalk. No such thing occurred. HIS Wife/SHE then admitted to the gas attendant that my wheels spun a little bit and it startled her. Being ready to deliver in 2 weeks, HE got upset. UPset enough to walk the 2/10 of a mile through the COSTCO parking lot from the parking lot intersection/stop signed area to my truck, where I was waiting for an available pump. The pregnant WIFE pulled him away to walk away, she probaly heard my bluff about shooting him if HE didn’t stop. I never saw him coming but that door jerking open and getting grabbed sure scared the hell outta me. For a brief moment, I thought of being car jacked.

Apparently what set HIM off was My wheels spun in my avoiding a car turning left while I had nearly completed my right turn. The driver of that call, a young girl, was not paying attention due to being on her cell phone. She almost hit my drivers side, rear panel of the truck. She did wave sorry to me later when she was in a gas line 2 lanes away. Being wet pavement and my pick up bed was unloaded. My trucks pickup bed was very light due to unloading a payload the day before and I hadn’t let the additional air suspension/spring support down to normal yet. The spinning wheel, very very brief, startled his wife standing on the sidewalk, clear of the parking area cross walk. I knew not of this startling and there was no intent on my part to do so and no exchanges whatsoever with HIM prior to him violently jerking my door open. When his wife led him away toward the store’s entrance, the gas attendant checked if I was ok,,,she was nice but the look on her face was concerned & scared too.

I put the SOG knife back in its scabbard, settled my nerves and drove home, doing so in shock. But later, 45 min later, I went back to the Costco store to file a report and to file a police report, receiving a case number.

so I spent over 2+ hours in the COSTCO managers office, giving statements to COSTCO Management & Security and the later arriving Seattle Police officer about the assualt. The COSTCO gas attendant left her statement & eye witness report with the police too.

If my assailant is arrested, COSTCO will press charges for tresspass and malicious assault of a customer. I will be pressing charges for his assault. My left shoulder has sharp pain from HIM trying to jerk me outta the truck. Lucky I had my seat belt on, I think it saved me from a severe beating by keeping me in my seat. I sure hope they arrest this big fella soon.

If anyone here witnessed this incident please call SPD officer T. Saewong #6957 as your witness, case #2009-399257, phone# 206-386-1850

Several people/COSTCO gas customers came up to me later asking if I was ok. They thought HE knew me by him coming up and opening my truck door. But a couple saw the violent opening of the door and the look on my face as HE attempted to extract me from my truck. Everyone soon realized this was a serious incident occuring. Seveal people jumped in their cars and just drove off. I’m lucky the seat belt stopped me because I doubt anyone would have come to my aid as my head was getting kicked in.

so, Does COSTCO care about the safety of their members-Customers?

apparently by their lack or response to my incident, I say not.

[Aim]

Walgreen’s was horribly unorganized in their method of distribution. If you don’t have the ability to show up 2 hours before the clinic, and then stay all day hoping for a shot, then don’t bother.

That said, I got my shot on Monday night by appointment at Albertson’s/Sav-On in White Center. They were organized, efficient, and pleasant. In fact, I called 3 hours before my appointment and asked if I could by any chance come early as I’d gotten off work early. The response? “No problem at all, you just may have to wait a few extra minutes.” I would recommend calling to see if they have any appointments left. Their # is 206-243-4433, and you need to dial 0 to get to speak to a person.

I couldn’t have been any more pleased and impressed with them. Their customer service is absolutely outstanding, and worlds away from the mess at Walgreen’s.

[Homer]

Flowerpetal, that deal is with Home Depot and ended yesterday (sunday) BUT, I think the customer service desk might still honor it.

Ken, I don’t like buying these online because they are so new, I want to see a bulb to see how cool blue or how warm white they are. I guess first time jitters. LED’s have been out for several years now, you’d think they’d sell them in a bin like the regulars by now….cool site you listed though! Have you bought from them before?

[Ken]

Why not buy online.

There are thousands of specialized bulbs used by builders of “green” buildings, and local hardware stores carry absolutely zero of them.

I usually buy standard hardware at McClendons and they have a great plumbing selection, but I don’t expect them to carry every bulb ever made.

Call them and ask.

LED bulbs are new enough that they are not stacked in warehouses waiting for hardware stores to order a dozen at a time.

If you go to home despot, don’t talk to anyone or you will come home with the wrong item.

Of course every christmas bulb on the planet is sold online here in its LED version:

http://www.aachristmas.com/vpasp/LED-christmas-lights.asp

[flowerpetal]

I am wanting to convert to LED bulbs this year. Rumor has it that one of the big box hardware stores will discount purchases on LED strings if you turn in your old ones of any vintage.

BUT, I have been unable to discover which store it is. Anyone hear of this?

[Homer]

Hi all…I’d love to buy that christmas light string by the foot that has light bulb receptacles every 12″ or so. BUT, I want to then separately buy C7 or C9 LED bulbs to go in them. I can find the empty string of course but no where local can I find anyone that sells C7 or C9 LED bulbs, just the regular incandescent. Anyone know of a place to buy these NOT online? Oh and can’t buy the C7 or C9’s online and pop the bulbs out because many of these LED types don’t come out of their original strand….ughhh.

[mav0414]

I was assaulted today at the 4th avenue Seattle COSTCO store, while waiting in the line for an available gas pump; sunday, NOV-15, approx 2:00pm-2:08pm.

ME: Toyota Tundra, white with white canopy.

Assaulter: 6′-3″+, caucasion, approx 230+ lbs, blue jeans, tennis shoes, Seahawk jersey and ball cap-hat. His wife accompanied him but she did not participate in the actual assault. She: 5′-8″+, med build, approx 135-145lbs, blue jeans, blonde hair shoulder length.

HE violently opened my drivers truck door, startling me and assaulted me, causing a shoulder injury.

if you witnessed this incident, please contact me via email, post or call Seattle Police officer T.Saewong, badge#6957, case#2009-399257, phone#206-386-1850 with any information.

A Costco employee-gas attendant also witnessed and provided a statement to Seattle Police.

please help if you can. thank you,

[EmmyJane]

I thought it was real until I saw the story this morning. Sigh, I’m so gullible. Not even for a second did I think to question it. Paaathetic! :-)

[JoB]

we have been sold the idea that if we don’t take what’s offered, we will get nothing…

we are being sold the idea by the democratic party and most of the liberal organizations that find their way into my mailbox these days that the current health care bill is a victory and we should be sending our dollars.. 5 here.. 5 there.. can you spare me more.. to re-elect the democrats who have given us this travesty of health care reform.

the liberal agenda has moved so far to the right that good solid liberal legislators like Dennis Kucinich… a voice of reason in the house who said no before he said no to the war… looks like a radical.

compromise is good, but any good negotiator knows that you don’t throw away your strongest hand before you set down to the table to negotiate. Yet the Obama Whitehouse refused to even give the single payer option a seat at the table before crafting their starting position.

The healthcare reform bill as currently presented to us could have as easily come from a republican congress in our current political climate if they had won the last few elections. It follows the republican agenda so closely that they barely bothered to craft a competing bill and have had to resort to idiocy to refute it.

the democratic party leadership has stepped on it’s… foot… once again and totally sold out those who elected them… and they want us to celebrate?

What are they thinking?

what are we thinking?

[RAK]

Sounds credible but, think about it.

Submarines never had and still don’t have windows!

But it is a great marketing scheme especially having grown up with Ivar the character.

[Gina]

There were still people that thought it was real AFTER the billboards went up?

Paul Dorpat’s involvement? Perhaps not a good thing.

[CMC]

I love it. Thanks for sharing. For a moment I was swept away envisioning a world of submarine travel and underwater billboards. Kind of fun.

[JustSarah]

I think some people still believed it, but yes, most strongly suspected it was a hoax. It previously hadn’t officially been confirmed as false, though, so the announcement was “news.”

[dhg]

I love the stunt. I think it surpasses anything they’ve done in the past. I was at their waterfront restaurant just two nights ago and was looking at the display they’ve put up with pictures of the billboards and “old” documents. They are works of art.

[sam-c]

there’s an article in the seattle times about this being a hoax/ staged.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010253767_ivars12m.html

I thought we already knew that ?

[Keith]

Do the Fisher & Paykel machines run fairly quiet? We have a condo-sized Maytag high efficiency front loader and we hate it – it’s so noisy and doesn’t really do a great job. It was one of only two options available at Albert Lee for the space we have (upstairs mini-closet) and was the only HE model we could find that would fit.

[c@lbob]

We recently got a Toshiba T135-1309 from BestBuy for $550. The major feature for us was that it’s an ultra light (3.8 lbs, 1.5″ thick) with a fairly large (13″) screen. If you don’t mind a 32 bit processor, (it seems plenty fast to us) it fills the bill quite well. Refer to this review on CNET

http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/toshiba-satellite-t135-s1309/4505-3121_7-33776107.html

After lugging around a Dell Studio 17, the Toshiba is like heaven. Be aware, though, there is no built in removable storage. You need to get an external drive. In our case we use the one on our desktop over the wireless home network.

I took Norton off of it an went for Microsoft Security Essentials. Voila, all my sharing problems with my HP desktop (also running Win7) went away!

[voodoo]

I have a Fisher & Paykel washer that I got at the Sears outlet in Tacoma, where they sell them under the Elba brand.

Hammerhead is right – clothes come out of the spin cycle practically dry. It is a high efficiency top loader that uses about the same amount of water and energy as a front loader, but costs less, weighs less (meaning I can have it in my 2nd floor condo), and because it is a top loader, it fits in my laundry closet (where I wouldn’t be able to leave the door of a front loader open to dry out after using). Because it is high efficiency, I was also able to get a $75 rebate from the city.

It got very good reviews from Consumer Reports and I am extremely pleased so far. My old dryer is still hanging on (and may last even longer now that I am not putting sopping wet clothes into it), so I don’t have any advice for you there.

[hammerhead]

Forgot to mention I have Fischer Pikel. It RPM is about 1100. the clothes are just about dry.

To bad you missed the albert lee sale it is very good.

[celeste17]

I second Brian. I have been with him for about 10 years. Before him I was with Ted DelBianco and when he sold I didn’t like the person who took over. I know Brain from working at Quidnunc he was a customer and through talking to him I moved my account.

[aliasjennifer]

Near Admiral Junction in West Seattle

Everything is in excellent to very good condition. Cash only please, you haul please.

IKEA fold out sleeper sofa, love-seat size $85

10 ft long by 1.5 ft wide sage green velvet drapes $20

Wood convertible step ladder/chair $20

Silver lamp $20

4.5 ft long, 1.5 ft wide, 3.5 ft high Schnadig cherry wood dresser and mirror $85

Kenmore washer (dryer sold) $80

Please see images on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=339555&id=673515415&l=bc2302b351

Calls only please. Busy packing & moving.

206.604.9078

[jellyfish]

76 has an amusing advertising campaign going on right now, both at the stations and on billboards. I love the bug poster, and the one with exercises to do while at the pump.

[WSB]

Am going through the mailbox to catch up on the past few days and found this news release from Brown Bear Car Washes. They’re not in WS but if you work near one or know somebody who might benefit from this, here it is to share:

>>>>As a way of saying “thanks” to our military, Brown Bear will be offering free “Bear Essential” car washes to all current or former members of the military on Veteran’s Day, Wednesday, November 11.

The free car washes are also being extended to all spouses who have a spouse currently deployed. See http://www.brownbear.com for a list of participating tunnel wash locations and hours.

“Our organization is proud to honor veterans and service personnel,” said Brown Bear President and founder Vic Odermat, himself a Marine Corps veteran.

“While the washes are free, we know that freedom is not. This is a way for us to show our support and gives us a unique opportunity to say ‘thank you’ to people who sacrifice so incredibly for our freedom.”

Odermat said the offer will operate on an honor system and no verification or documentation is required.

Drivers should identify themselves as a current or

former member of the military to the wash attendant.

Odermat started Brown Bear started in Seattle in 1957 with one location at 1800th Ave West in Seattle. Brown Bear now owns and operates car washes throughout the Puget Sound area and Spokane.<<<<

[power]

Yes – I have kids – energetic ones who have trouble sitting still. I still like to go out to eat once in a while when I like to torture myself. What makes it a good kid restaurant? Quick food, decent price and a drink for mom and dad. Any ideas other than EBAY? They are our constant fallback and we are looking for other ideas.

[ToolShare]

Love to hear all the excitement!

And thanks to everyone who’s filled out the survey.

We’re definitely working off the past successes of Phinney and Berkeley, as well as a bunch of other successful tool libraries throughout the country. But we want this library to specifically meet the needs of OUR community, so your comments are vital.

Keep them coming!

Thanks again.

Here’s the survey link mentioned above:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=4nFv7Wx8bTBno5CxUlBLLw_3d_3d

And, for longer comments, our web address:

http://www.sustainablewestseattle.org/2009/10/tool-library-questionnaire/