Hookers aren't trustworthy? I'm shocked!

Somebody's a few fries short of a Happy Meal...

Man reports "theft by escort" to police

A Seattle man who hired an escort to "have fun" told police that she stole $170 from him after she went to her car to fetch some condoms.

The man, who is in his 50s and lives on Whitman Avenue North near Lake Union, had called the escort after spotting an advertisement in the Feb. 21 edition of The Stranger, a police report filed Thursday said.

The woman arrived at his apartment late last month for the rendezvous. He agreed to pay her $150 to "have fun" and $20 to cover her gas.

"At some point into the fun," the woman asked the man whether he had condoms, according to the report.

Upon hearing that he did not, she said she would get some from her car.

As the man waited for her to return, he looked out his window and realized the escort was driving away in a silver car.

Since that night, he has called her "numerous times" to get his money back. "But she has not answered or returned his calls," the report said.

The police officer who took the report told the man it is against the law in Seattle and the state of Washington to pay someone for sex.

But the man wanted to file a police report in case the woman "was doing this to more of her customers."

The S.L.U.T. is a bitch!

Driving home from work tonight, on the first day of our new $52,000,000 Paul Allen tinker-toy, it became readily apparent that just the mere presence of the streetcar route is going to screw up traffic much more than it is going to help.

The Mercer Mess is already a complete fiasco, and the addition of 2 additional stoplights, one westbound on Mercer, and one eastbound on Valley, is certainly not welcome.

Tonight, I was actually a little bit excited to see the streetcar (the purple one) for the first time, as it waited patiently for the light to change so it could cross the street. The intersection is one way southbound on one side of Mercer, and two-way on the other side. All the other directions of traffic were stopped so that the streetcar could get through the intersection. This by itself is not a big deal. But, the problem came in because no other cars went through the intersection, and the light did not change for another 60 seconds! If you have ever gone along Mercer trying to get to I-5 during the evening commute, you know that every second counts. 60 seconds of traffic not moving at all is the LAST thing you need in that corridor. And that's going to happen every 5 minutes, since it will also happen when the trains cross Westlake to go North.

I'm not impressed with the new streetcar. But I do need to get one of those shirts!

Curious about Seattle streetcar history? Check this out.