Posted on 04/18/2022 3:28:30 PM PDT by algore
Seattle police arrested two men after a road rage altercation at Pike Place Market on Sunday.
The incident began when two men — one a 32-year-old driving an SUV and the other a 45-year-old in a van — exchanged heated words as the SUV was turning onto First Avenue along Pike Place Market.
Police say that the driver of the van threw water toward the 32-year-old in the SUV, leading to both getting out of the respective vehicles to physically confront each other. The 32-year-old then reportedly shoved the 45-year-old to the ground, before getting back into his vehicle and beginning to drive further down First Avenue.
The 45-year-old subsequently ran up to the SUV, hit the driver, and returned to his van.
It’s at this point that a 54-year-old man driving a Mazda pulled up next to the driver in the SUV to engage in “a verbal altercation,” exiting his car with a hammer and shattering the SUV’s back window.
With the hammer being left behind, the 32-year-old driving the SUV grabbed it and smashed the Mazda’s windshield in retaliation. The driver of the Mazda proceeded to back his vehicle up, and then drove it into the 32-year-old, also hitting an “uninvolved woman” who police say worked nearby.
The driver of the SUV — still holding the hammer — used the tool to hit the driver of the Mazda through his open window, before police were able to intervene and arrest both men, who were later booked into jail for assault.
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Can’t we all just get along?
Too much coffee?
media telling us a lot by not telling us a lot.
Fine by me.
There were 3 men:
1. a 45-year-old in a van who was involved in mutual combat.
2. a 32-year-old driving an SUV
3. a 54-year-old man driving a Mazda
I guess the 45-year-old got away?
Declining numbers at an even rate.
So why was the vehicle called out as being a Mazda not redacted like as the three actors and two other vehicles?
Maybe it was ‘rhoid rage!
If I had a hammer,
I’d a hammer in the morning....
This might be the kind of dangerous Slapstick episode that leads some women to use the phrase “Toxic Masculinity”.
None of this was necessary. Of course, the 45 y/o started it by throwing water at somebody else’s vehicle.
That’s an obvious and direct effort to insult.
Oh..and the names? What about the names?
Send in the community organizers and the social workers.
It's obviously racism, the van and SUV being American and the Mazda Japanese.
Just another manic Monday!
Sounds like you understand Seattle jurisprudence.
Ban hammers!
“There were 3 men.”
AND a woman!
“...and then drove it into the 32-year-old, also hitting an “uninvolved woman” who police say worked nearby.”
Oh, never mind. The police said she was “uninvolved”...so she doesn’t count. Well...except for getting hit by one of the vehicles.
A veritable massacre.
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