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The Morning Blotter: Naked Chicks and Scooters

Seattle police were called to a Capitol Hill apartment building earlier this week after a man came home to find a threesome screwing in his carport.

A police report says the man came home to his apartment building on 11th and Denny around 7:15pm, when he saw two half-naked women and a half-naked man in the carport next to his apartment.

The half-naked man was having sex with one of the women, while the other female was “naked and messing with the victim’s scooter.”

The victim confronted the three half-naked suspects, and the woman who was mid-coitus got angry, ripped down a cigarette ashtray attached to the apartment building, and threw it at the victim, striking him in the shoulder.

The woman then told the victim she was going to have her cousin shoot him. The report doesn’t clearly indicate where the woman’s cousin was during the altercation. But let your imagination run wild.

The half-naked woman on the scooter apologized to the victim for the other woman’s actions—the report indicates the two women are sisters—and all three suspects left after getting dressed.

Police weren’t able to find the suspects.

Update: Wanna see Seattle’s sexiest carport? Our pals over at Capitolhillseattle have a photo.




  • rich

    It’s been a chilly week. Gotta respect anyone who can do al fresco sex when it’s freezing out.

  • SeaT

    Worst.Threesome.Ever.

  • solidox

    What a bunch of fucking fruitloops.

  • Mark B

    If his name was Al Fresco.
    The family that plays together…..

  • carol

    …from the back woods of Virginia… and he said ‘whoo-eee’ I can’t wait. Then he asked me what ‘scoooter’ was slang for.

    Gotta love Seattle, all of the fun of Deliverance, with none of the banjos.

  • Pete

    What a bunch of fucking pigs, go back to Kentucky.

  • medusaprime

    On one hand, walking up on 2 people having sex while a woman is naked working on a scooter in a carport in the cold would be a delightful sight to see. Its the rest of the facts that ruin this potential awesomeness…

  • Um, no…

    Sorry, even us bumpkins in Kentucky don’t throw ashtrays at people. Bourbon bottle? Maybe…

  • Ralph

    Best news story so far this year.

  • HughJardohn

    The national reputation of Seattle is drawing this type of animal from America’s nether regions. It now America’s asshole.

  • Foodie

    Maybe you guys want to think about hiring some Americans to write these articles.

  • AntiFoodie

    It means a garage w/o the walls or the door, & perfectly valid American English. Think gazebo for cars.

  • Mo Inkslinger

    We knew Sarah and Todd Palin could not stay out of the news for a whole week.

  • ray

    The only ‘victimization’ (thrown ashtray) happened because the guy didn’t mind his own business. Sheee! Can’t a couple get it on without some a$$hole interrupting?

  • Krafster

    “home to find a threesome screwing in his carport”

    Screwing – is that a technical term? Is that anything like fucking?

  • fuwad84

    2 naked sisters and a dude were getting it on and all this guy did was stand there like an asshole and complain? He could have at least taken some pictures for Christ sake, I mean for evidence of course. Seriously even his scooter got in on the action, what a loser!

  • Shenanigans

    The guy ran into the ashtray attached to the building and knocked it off the wall. Made up the whole story so he wouldn’t have to pay the 3 bucks to have it put back. On Meth, this is normal.

  • TK

    More like go back to Oregon. Damn Vantucky rednecks.

  • Funny

    There are plenty of people I would not want to watch have sex, threesome or otherwise, even if you paid me. And judging by the behavior of the one woman, it sounds like they were pretty nasty!

    He should sue for the damage they’ve done to his eyes.

  • beardedclameater

    When will America learn not to stick their big long noses,where it does not belong??No carports was damaged during the activity.

  • AC

    The Aristocrats.

  • ewillyp

    what is this 1997; this guy doesn’t have a cellphone with a video camera?

  • BeenToSeattle

    An open parking space, even in the form of a vacant privately owned carport, is such an an impossibility in Seattle, that if you cause such a thing to exist, you would tear open a rift in the space-time continuum, at which point all kinds of unnatural things would occur.

  • Big Dave

    You reside in a State where bestiality is legal, and you make fun of Oregon? Nice!

  • Jose

    Yes, because carport isn’t in the Amurrican vernacular. Maybe you should try an education out for size?

  • Adam

    Seattle police were called to a Capitol Hill apartment building earlier this week after a man came home to find a threesome screwing in his carport.

    A police report says the man came home to his apartment building on 11th and Denny around 7:15pm, when he saw two half-naked women and a half-naked man in the carport next to his apartment.

    The half-naked man was having sex with one of the women, while the other female was “naked and messing with the victim’s scooter.”

    The victim confronted the three half-naked suspects, and the woman who was mid-coitus got angry, ripped down a cigarette ashtray attached to the apartment building, and threw it at the victim, striking him in the shoulder.

    The woman then told the victim she was going to have her cousin shoot him. The report doesn’t clearly indicate where the woman’s cousin was during the altercation. But let your imagination run wild.

    The half-naked woman on the scooter apologized to the victim for the other woman’s actions—the report indicates the two women are sisters—and all three suspects left after getting dressed.

    Police weren’t able to find the suspects.

  • Manly Man man man mnamanm nama

    There had to have been a better way of handling the situation, but this ‘tard calls the cops instead of geting some great erotic action?

  • Heather D.

    “The “garage”? Hey fellas, the “garage”! Well, ooh la di da, Mr. French Man.” “Well what do you call it?” “A car hole!”

  • Lord of the Sharkticons

    You’re doing it wrong! What you were supposed to do was see the three of them screwing and then be like, “Well, since there’s an extra chick *zip*”

    You fail at porn!

  • Jake

    Nah, they were messing with his ride dude. If they hadn’t been, then I would agree.

  • moxie

    Hump?

  • Walt

    This in in Seattle? Where Fabians abound? The proper thing to do, when you see people struggling for lack of sufficient resources to service all needs, is to offer to help. From each according to his ability; to each according to her need.

  • hken

    then take the two sisters up to his joint and enjoy the women
    in the ole sackeroo for awhile. Forget the cop’s and stiff the ladies.

  • Stef

    @ TK: Vancouver is in Washington. ZING

  • MrsB

    It could be dangerous messing with a prospective welfare momma trying to get preggers, mid-coitus. I bet the man lost his erection though and things went downhill from there :)

  • bigjs20

    cus if they do it in public, then a complete stranger has the right to whatever he/she feels to stop them in public…after all, it’s a public place.

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