Comments on: 911: Shooting at Rainier & Henderson, Former Rainier Beach HS Drug Counselor Faces Prison on Drug Charge, Etc.

By: No way

No way — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:11:39 +0000

I am not saying that the media reports all violent crime. What I am saying is that if armed men hijacked a city bus we would hear about it. Somebody getting shot in S. Seattle is very different than an entire bus being hijacked. I’m not saying that the lack of violent crime coverage is acceptable, but hijacking public transportation is a whole different ballgame. Maybe the issue is the word hijacking. A violent crime committed on a bus might not make the news, but a true hijacking would.

By: really

really — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:01:45 +0000

I have a teenager so I hear a lot about the stuff that goes on. I sit and wait and wait for mainstream media to report on it and they don’t. RVP captures most of what goes down but a lot still goes under the radar.

I don’t know if this bus incident really happened but it really wouldn’t surprise me if it did.

Something needs to happen on the 19 or 31 before some people care.

Side note, the owner at the sub shop told me a couple weeks ago he didn’t know how much longer he was going to stay open. Im sure a bullet lodged in his business isnt helping matters.

By: tiffany

tiffany — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:20:14 +0000

In my last house a neighbor kid (in his 2nd-story bedroom) shot a rival kid (across the street on the lawn of an elementary school) in the head and it never made the news. There was even a 3 hour swat standoff around the house — and I testified in a murder trial! Not a peep in the news…

By: Tom T

Tom T — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 23:33:07 +0000

I tend to disagree with the comments that this would be all over the news. In fact, I believe there have been several shootings that don’t make it beyond the RVP or seattlecrime.com or at best are tucked away in the reporting.

By: No way

No way — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:24:18 +0000

There is no way that the bus hijacking was for real. It would be all over the news. This is how rumors get spread.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:12:09 +0000

I’m curious to know more about the bus-jacking incident mentioned in the comments from the first link also.

By: Carol

Carol — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 20:27:26 +0000

I have to say I’ve been wondering about the validity of the armed bus jacking report, given that it didn’t make the news in any way. I don’t expect KOMO to give a dang about the 106, but I’d expect some of the local small crime followers to have posted something about it.

To SSC, is this for realz?

By: Tom T

Tom T — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:37:42 +0000

To SSC,
Does the bus hijacking fall under federal law? I’m not sure if it qualifies as interstate commerce or not. Is it pretty amazing that this hasn’t been mentioned in the larger news outlets.
Thanks,
Tom T

By: Mark B

Mark B — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:40:54 +0000

So now they just pull a jack move and cut off the bus?

Crazy.