While CHS climbs back into the saddle after taking it (a little) easy over the holiday weekend, here are some reports from CHS and the SPD crime blotter from the weekend. We also reported on this early Sunday morning stabbing and arrest at E Pine’s Club Z.
- The big story before the weekend will continue into this week. We’ll have more on the plans for a new development at Melrose and Pine. In the meantime, take a look through the more than 200 comments the Friday news generated.
- “Fast back-up” in Montlake: A call for back-up by a Washington trooper making a traffic stop on 520 near Foster Island sent SPD cruisers speeding through the streets of Capitol Hill in a rush to Montlake early Monday morning around 1:30a. We don’t have details on what lead to the “help the officer” call that was quickly called off — but not before units throughout East Precinct kicked into action. SPD lists a DUI investigation in the in area of the traffic stop.
- : 10th Ave E was tied up Sunday night for a lengthy DWI investigation following a collision near E Highland.
- : Vandals visited the Broadway Chase bank, again, Easter Sunday. The oft-targeted bank at Broadway and Thomas had its front window busted, according to tipster Daniel. SPD is conducting a vandalism investigation at the location, according to a preliminary report on the incident..
- : KOMO reports that First Hill’s St. James Cathedral suffered tagging over the weekend.
- : It wasn’t all evil out there on the streets this weekend. The giant Cal Anderson egg hunt went off in the sunshine.
Nobody really seems to want them here. Their own customers complain about them all the time. Read their online reviews since arriving to the area, talk to most people who use em. (There will always be someone who says their great, only because they don’t know what good service is because they’ve never had genuinely good service) They just seem to be a very negative influence and business in general. I worked with their lending side a little bit when I worked for a local mortgage broker and they are just underhanded in general with the way they handle that side of the business. As much as I encourage people to stop breaking windows for the sake of them not adding to the prison population, especially when most seem to agree with their sentiment towards this bank. I really hope Chase takes the hint from their reviews and constant protest, that they are not wanted here. There are so many better lending institutions that don’t charge crazy fees. Guess what else, they give you a much better return in interest on your savings account. Peace to everyone!
Bank of America is just up the street a block or 2, how about giving it some love too?
Please don’t speak for EVERYONE (nobody wants them here). Not EVERYONE jumps on the bandwagon dujour, by wishing them away, you wish every worker bee in that branch to become unemployed. Think about others instead of what is currenlty ‘IN’ to hate on. Vandalism is not the answer, go after those people instead of people trying to make an honest and eager living.
The only way to get Chase to leave Broadway would be for people to cease using it. Until that happens, quit smashing windows you dumbsh#ts!!!
“It would be best” if childish protesters would just grow up and realize that while breaking windows is tons of juvenile fun, it isn’t the solution to anything. Besides, if Chase moved out, they’d just start breaking windows of other big banks in the neighborhood.
I don’t understand why they don’t just replace it with plexiglass, unless that’s just not feasible. Or install bars in front of the glass?
Vote with your wallet and not with a rock.
Many people dont support Occupy Seattle, but you didn’t people throwing rocks at their encampment @ SCCC last year. Yeah I know, Occupy Seattle didnt do this, but theyre not going to kick out those who did.
There has been a bank on that corner for decades, at least, and there will still be one there for years to come. I suspect that the frequent vandalism is actually making Chase executives more committed to staying there.
Any why has BOA been spared the vandalism? They’re a “big bank” too. Maybe the branch is just too far for the anarchist vandals to walk.
Many of you people need to learn how to read, or at least comprehend. I said I do not support them breaking windows. I support the protest in the form of switching banks. Oh yeah and hey geniuses, if they close down, doesn’t that mean that the credit unions and local banks will have to hire more people due to influx of business? Who’s stuck in their ways of thinking? Who is automatically putting someone who stands against Chase in with anarchists? Most of you showed your ignorance and inability to think outside the imaginary world of security you live in. Just keep lumping people in together and burying your head in the sand. Our country has gotten to such a good place place this way. Go ahead and pat yourselves on the back because you are just as much to blame as our government. Congratulation! AGAIN, I DO NOT SUPPORT VANDALISM. I JUST KNOW CHASE IS NOT THE KIND OF BUSINESS THAT IS GOOD FOR HUMAN KIND…WAKE UP!
Seriously, who gives a fuck about some bank windows? Getting your panties in a wad over this? Y’all are crazy.
I live on 10th between Preospect and Highland. The family members still at the house after our Easter get-together were engaging in a typical American religious observance, ie hanging out on the couch watching Game of Thrones, when there was a BANG followed by an irritated-sounding car alarm.
Naturally I headed out to the street to see if I could help and because, I admit it, I’m a nosy neighbor. Or as I prefer, “an active participant in the life of the neighborhood”.
Turns out a late 20s white guy in an moderately upscale sedan fell asleep at the wheel and clipped one car’s mirror between Prospect and Highland (thus the irritated tone in the car’s voice) before catching the bumper of the Jeep in front of it. You know, the bare-steel kind of bumper that makes your car look like a comic book super-villain whacked it with an I-beam.
The driver pulled over just past Highland to make sure nobody was hurt and waited for the cops. He was pretty upset. Worried about going to jail. Kept asking “What should I do? What should I do.” but to his credit he really knew what he had to do so he did the right thing and stood there waiting to take his lumps. Having already made one bad mistake, he wisely declined to compound his troubles.
Nobody WAS hurt, so the ambulance guys happily got to turn on their siren and drive fast without picking up any customers. SPD arrived and blocked one lane of 10th for maybe an hour and a half taking pictures and doing the needed cop things, talking to the driver, checking him out on the computer, talking to the looky-loos, doing the paperwork.
Based on what the driver told me, I’m not surprised you’re picking this up off the police blotter as a DWI. At least the damage was limited to property, dignity and driving privileges.