Ballard police

'Don't hurt me'

Crawl spaces under a house can be creepy. Last week a homeowner began hearing noises below his home. The crawl space is an unfinished basement with a dirt floor and is accessed through a small door in the back of the house. A police officer came and opened the door. A man in his 60s was sitting in the middle of the crawlspace, sweating and shaking. "I ordered him out. He was sweating profusely, not coherent and did not appear to understand what I was saying. His only words were "don't hurt me," and "you put me there," according to the police report. The man was sent to Harborview Medical Center.

Suicidal man to Harborview

Police officers were called to investigate a report of a suicidal man on Queen Anne at 3 a.m. They found a man lying in the street yelling "kill me, kill me." An officer approached and identified himself. "Just run me over, I want to die," the man said. The officer helped get the man off the street and onto the sidewalk. When asked if he had ever gone to the hospital, the man replied "yes, for suicide." He was taken to Harborview Medical Center to receive help.

Stranger proposes

Around 5:30 p.m., a North Seattle woman was looking out her kitchen window and saw a strange man waving. She quickly closed the blinds and the man came to the door. The woman's daughter answered the door and the man pushed gently past her, entering the house. The woman's boyfriend confronted the man who was talking incoherently. The man asked about two girls in the home, wanted to know if they were twins. He then said he wanted to marry one of them. The boyfriend escorted the man outside without further incident.

Boat intruder vanishes

When the owner of a boat went to his dock at 12:50 a.m., he heard someone moving around inside. He then saw the boat rocking back and forth and a suspect shuffling about inside. The man retreated with his girlfriend and called 911. When the police came, the man told the officer there was only one way off the dock and that was through a locked gate and he did not see the suspect leave. The officer searched the boat and did not find anyone inside. The owner inspected the boat and found things missing or vandalized. A bottle of Jack Daniels Whiskey had been emptied. Five fingerprints were lifted off the bottle for evidence.

A case of buried bones

In a case right out of a mystery novel, a woman found an unidentified bone in her garden. She told police the bone was under a metal garbage can lid that was filled with concrete and buried just below the surface. "She told me she stopped digging after she located the bone and did not know if there were any more bones in the ground," the officer wrote in his report. The bone was sent to the King County Medical Examiner's office.

Bus robbers arrested

Riding on a Crown Hill bus, a man was robbed and waited until the next day to report it to police. Officers were sent to a Metro bus where the victim pointed to two young men in the back wearing black jackets. The victim provided a positive identification of one of the suspects. One young man had 1.2 grams of marijuana. He was booked into the King County Youth Service Center for investigation of robbery.

Woman with snowflake

Dressed in a low-cut dress, black heeled shoes and carrying a large white snow flake decoration the size of a garbage can lid, a woman went up to a Ballard resident and asked to borrow the lawn mower. The resident recognized the woman as a neighbor. The neighbor was later seen going into another home's backyard. The resident went to investigate and saw the woman on a ladder, trying to remove a window screen. Officers arrived and went to the home where the woman lives. A resident there said the woman has rented a room for the last year, but was not home at that moment.

No reward for bank robber

"Cash this check for me," a man said as he handed a note bank robbery note to a bank teller. She told him no. The suspect then said "don't press the alarm." The teller said she was not pressing the alarm. The suspect hesitated then ran out of the bank, taking the note with him. Police officers responded and did an area check without success. No money was lost in the incident.

Smoked sausage evidence

In a case of the half-eaten sausage stick, a woman went into a mini-mart on Aurora Avenue late one evening. She picked up some beer and food items for purchase. The clerk noticed the woman was very intoxicated so he refused to sell her the beer and food. The woman got upset and became verbally hostile towards employees and other customers. She grabbed a smoked sausage stick valued at .99 cents and ate part of it before discarding the rest of it and leaving the store. She was arrested by police.

Ballard police is compiled from Seattle Police reports by Dean Wong who can be reached at deanw@robinsonnews.com