The area around E. Pike and Boylston outside the Maharaja and the Hunter Gatherer Lodge continues to be a magnet for late night 911 calls. In the latest incident, one man was arrested after reports of an ugly brawl and a man with a gun drew a fleet of police cruisers to the 700 block of E. Pike early last Friday morning.

According to a Seattle Police Department report on the incident, the dispute broke out when “regular” patrons of the unnamed bar warned a man that enjoying his alcoholic beverage outside the bar would attract police. The young gentleman took umbrage at one particular samaritan’s remarks and replied, “I’ll blaze you” and then proceeded to a vehicle where he grabbed a handgun, put it in his pocket, returned to his drinking location and, then, according to the report, pointed it at the man who had advised him of the risky nature of his public drinking. The other man made a grab for the gun and the struggle sent the pistol to the sidewalk as a fist fight involving several participants broke out. A witness told police that as the fight continued, the drinking man’s girlfriend retrieved the pistol from the sidewalk. Another witness said she saw a female employee of the unnamed bar ‘egging’ the fight on as a man kicked another in the face.

Police arrived to find that the man who pulled the gun had left the scene. He was found during a traffic stop a short time later. The officer found a black and silver Smith & Wesson .22 caliber handgun under the front passenger seat, according to the report. The man was arrested and booked on investigation of assault.

The man told police he pulled the gun because he was afraid he was “about to die” in the fight that broke out on the E. Pike sidewalk.

UPDATE: HG Lodge owner Marcus Lalario tells SeattleCrime that this incident “had nothing to do with [his] club.”

CHS reported on a mid-April incident that left two men badly beaten in the gutter along E. Pike in the same area.

In less dangerous matters, JakeW asks in the CHS Forums about a sidewalk graffiti promotion for a club night at HG Lodge. He calls it vandalism. You?