Weird Seattle News of Late

Boxed In

Police rescued an 80-year-old lady in Illinois from a hostage state of affairs after her Seattle-based daughter observed she hadn’t texted her day by day Wordle rating. Unanswered messages prompted her youngsters to alert the authorities. No indication of what number of five-letter phrases the previous trainer considered through the many hours a unadorned, scissors-wielding man locked her in a rest room (she was unhurt), however some four-letter ones will need to have come to thoughts. 

KOMO Axes Its Tourism Bureau

Broadcast information fixated on crime downtown early in 2022, and no person was extra obsessed than KOMO reporter Jonathan Choe. Throughout one dispatch, he stood throughout from police on Third Avenue and queried a visiting couple, “You guys aren’t afraid to stroll by way of all this?” The vacationers, befuddled, stored strolling. Choe was later fired after a number of incidents.

Flightmare Gas

Pilots have skilled some sudden air visitors within the neighborhood of Jet Metropolis. The rollout of AT&T and Verizon’s 5G wi-fi companies grounded all passenger flights at Paine Area earlier this yr as a result of it doubtlessly interfered with very important security tools. And somebody educated a inexperienced gentle on a number of planes approaching Sea-Tac in harmful (and prison) “laser strikes.”

Caught on KUOW

A glitch in Mazdas of a sure age just lately examined the bounds of our public radio fandom. Drivers turning to the NPR station in automobiles made between 2014 and 2017 despatched their infotainment programs into a brand new iteration of the Seattle Freeze. The issue stays one thing of a thriller, however native dealerships have begun putting in substitute elements freed from cost to appease the aggrieved tote-clutchers.

Not a Prime Supply

Jeff Bezos has supplied to pay for the deconstruction of a historic bridge in Rotterdam, Netherlands, to accommodate the cargo of his $485 million superyacht. In protest, 1000’s of Fb customers have pledged to egg the 417-foot vessel because it makes its method by way of the Dutch port. In unrelated information, Bezos’s ex MacKenzie Scott has donated extra to charity since their cut up than the Amazon founder.

Editor’s observe: This record is up to date quarterly with information objects of questionable import however indubitable resonance within the Seattle zeitgeist. If in case you have any odd native anecdotes to share that haven’t made headlines but, be happy to ship them to [email protected]