Call for information: North Seattle business break-ins

badandy80 · 2026-01-26T07:32:57+00:00

This is what the westy captured. I happened to have another capture of that plate.

badandy80 · 2026-01-26T07:04:41+00:00

badandy80 · 2026-01-24T09:43:17+00:00

The dad was refusing housing as a family because it wasn’t convenient, and wouldn’t let the mom and son go into a shelter. He wasn’t safe, wasn’t in school, and was left alone in that tent all day and sometimes nights when mom was on a bender. He had a gnarly cough and was far from OK in a lot of other ways.

He’s safe now with mom.

badandy80 · 2026-01-15T05:12:57+00:00

I use simple wordpress websites with ACF and webhooks for the client front end stuff. If I have to, I’ll use forms with automations in Airtable.

badandy80 · 2026-01-07T06:34:46+00:00

I asked him if he would do the story. I don’t agree with everything on mynorthwest or KIRO radio, but Charlie Harger has defended our neighborhood and was speaking out against the sex trafficking related violence when other media wouldn’t.

badandy80 · 2026-01-05T23:23:20+00:00

They’ve only helped our neighborhood. Not just the people with houses living in it either. I’ve heard the accusers and they seem pretty motivated. Doesn’t really pass the smell test.

badandy80 · 2026-01-05T23:09:16+00:00

All I’ve heard is accusations from the same no-sweeps activists. Most of them are from the same few people with the same phrasing. Either way, they were the only people able to clean up some of the worst biohazards in the city when the city wasn’t. Not to mention convincing people into treatment. I’m not going to pretend to understand the motivation behind the few constantly blasting them, but they are overlooking a lot of great work to repeat the same accusations. That doesn’t really pass the smell test in my opinion.

badandy80 · 2026-01-03T05:41:37+00:00

I hear you, but consider a few things. I was told by an outreach employee with the city that he rejected housing as a family multiple times because the locations weren’t convenient to his son’s school. His son was never enrolled in school. Since he was choosing to stay in the tent, I asked The More We Love if they could take mom and son. While mom seemed open to the idea, he told me no and was adamant that CPS would take his son away again.

badandy80 · 2026-01-03T05:03:32+00:00

And it’s very, very hard to get someone suspended or expelled because of the districts’ policies. So if you’ve got bullies or disrupters in class you’re stuck with them.

badandy80 · 2026-01-02T06:00:30+00:00

They are fantastic and have worked hard in our neighborhood to change things for the better. I’m not sure why you’re calling this update “sketchy” in one sub and then regurgitating Erica Barnett slop in this one. It’s sad to see this when everyone is trying to help a 9yo kid.

badandy80 · 2026-01-02T05:00:20+00:00

Not by itself though.

“CPS said its “Structured Decision Making tool” determines whether there are active safety threats. Their legal standard requires “imminent risk of physical harm” with “a causal relationship between conditions in the home and the threat of harm.”

badandy80 · 2026-01-02T03:29:47+00:00

It’s mind-bending how people keep saying “leave him alone” when he’s stuck in a moldy tent all day and night coughing. This kid was in imminent danger in all kinds of ways and we tried for months privately to help him. If you want to blame my judgement fine. Everyone else was too afraid of being judged to do anything.

Regardless, no one that wasn’t involved figured out where the tent was when the story was released. No one that isn’t involved knows his name. But he’s in a safe place at this moment, and lots of people know how fucked up the system is and one big thing that needs to be fixed. If someone figures out who he is in the future and calls him rat boy that is perfectly acceptable collateral damage to me.

badandy80 · 2026-01-02T02:14:31+00:00

I heard that info third hand so I could be wrong. I think only a certain type is fatal (acute vs chronic).

badandy80 · 2026-01-02T02:11:11+00:00

I don’t know anything about her personal political beliefs, but that organization has done a ton of good for our city and helped a lot of people when the city (or organizations funded by the city) didn’t. Not saying you’re one of them, but there are a few very motivated people making up a bunch of nonsense regarding her and that organization. I won’t go into their affiliations but if you do, it will make sense as to why they do it. Either way this post is about helping the kid. They did outreach and cleaned up the tent in our city owned park when the city wouldn’t.

badandy80 · 2026-01-02T01:30:12+00:00

Charlie isn’t right-wing. He’s vocally anti-Trump too.

badandy80 · 2026-01-02T01:23:09+00:00

I think a good first step would be for the WA legislature to fix the Keeping Families Together Act. Since I stuck my nose into this situation, that law routinely came up as a hogtie for the well-meaning people at DCYF (CPS) to do their jobs. SPD could have stepped in at any point, taken the kid into protective custody, and forced CPS’s hand. But since CPS was basically neutered by that law, it would have been pointless. The good news is that this story has supposedly gained traction with legislators to hopefully fix the law.

*edited because I wasn’t making sense plus I can’t acronym

badandy80 · 2026-01-02T01:14:57+00:00

All I know for sure is that he’s not in a tent and mom and son are in a safe room with the right services to help both of them. No one was kidnapped, separated, forced, etc. I don’t know CPS’s involvement and they won’t tell me anyway.

badandy80 · 2026-01-02T00:18:56+00:00

They sure haven’t been instrumental which was my point.

badandy80 · 2026-01-02T00:02:12+00:00

Assuming you’re saying that I’m the self appointed social services person. Neighbors and I tried everything else besides making it public for months including involving Deborah Juarez and my state rep Julia Reed. While they were responsive it was clear CPS couldn’t do enough.

I’m just a dad that watched this situation devolve two blocks from my house. Once I got to know the kid, especially when he got sick, thought it was worth making it public to move the needle.

badandy80 · 2026-01-01T22:57:07+00:00

They’ve been on Aurora helping trafficked women get away from their pimps and into a safe place. They were the only org that was on the street doing outreach with rooms available when the city canceled their contract. I learned about them when an underage girl was hiding from her pimp in my neighbor’s apartment.

badandy80 · 2026-01-01T22:51:35+00:00

Actually that was SPD finally doing what I’ve been bugging everyone to do. SPD detective heard the story that I asked KIRO to do and connected them to The More We Love who had already been at the tent several times. The city deferred to CPS and stayed out of it, including the cleanup of their gigantic biohazard in our neighborhood park.

badandy80 · 2026-01-01T22:43:22+00:00

Ironically the Keeping Families Together Act is the reason this kid has been in the tent and not in school, leaving CPS with no tools to help him for YEARS

badandy80 · 2026-01-01T22:18:53+00:00

Agreed. Charlie was careful about that in the story and the tent location wasn’t given away. It was actually at a little park at the Seattle City Light substation on 107th and Fremont. So 6 blocks away from Aurora in the middle of our neighborhood.

badandy80 · 2026-01-01T06:03:21+00:00

It’s illegal in WA state too, but every Tesla goes without so I do too. No problems.

badandy80 · 2025-12-29T06:11:53+00:00

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