DORI MONSON

Dori says car prowls are byproduct of poor Seattle politics

Jun 22, 2015, 1:35 PM | Updated: 2:51 pm

A number of cars were broken into while fans attended a Mariners game Sunday. (MyNorthwest file pho...

A number of cars were broken into while fans attended a Mariners game Sunday. (MyNorthwest file photo)

(MyNorthwest file photo)

While fans filled the stands at Safeco Field on Sunday to take in a Father’s Day Mariners game, thieves were busy breaking into cars parked outside.

“We were enjoying the game, but we decided to leave during the 5th inning. Boy did we get a surprise when we came out to the parking lot,” Lee Keller told KIRO Radio’s Dori Monson.

While Keller, her husband, and 13-year-old son were watching the Mariners, someone broke into their car and took her purse. She said there were a number of families whose cars were broken into.

Dori says he knows why.

“The city embraces the loser drug-addled criminals because they are the ones that most likely support the current political culture we have in Seattle,” Dori said. “That’s why we have [thefts]. That’s why you can’t leave anything in sight in your car in Seattle these days. It’s a pretty obvious formula for political success.”

Keller said her purse was out of sight when she left it in the family’s SUV. But that didn’t stop thieves from rummaging through the vehicle.

“My husband said, ‘Did we leave a window open?'” Keller said. “I said, ‘No, I think we’ve been broken into.'”

“I thought about this before I went into the Mariners game, ‘Don’t’ leave your purse in the car,'” she said. “I took my driver’s license and two credit cards and put them in a smaller purse that I had on me. I hid [the purse] so well. I thought there was no way. It was down underneath the back hatch, underneath a swimming bag with a towel on it. Clearly, it wasn’t hidden well enough.”

“I just sort of live my life assuming everybody is good. Until somebody tells me otherwise,” she said. “I have this strange optimistic outlook, where I assume it’s not going to happen. A lot of us assume it’s not going to happen to ‘you.'”

Keller praised Seattle police for helping, but was dismayed to hear that there were other prowls during the game and that they happen often. She said police told her that they can’t keep up with the thefts during each game and that thieves wait until police leave an area, commit the crime, and flee.

After finding their car windows smashed, the family drove to a nearby detailing business to clean up.

“When we went off to vacuum the glass out of our car at the Pink Elephant Car Wash, there was a line of people that was so long trying to vacuum out the broken glass from their broken windows,” Keller said. “So we went to the Shell station just north of there and there were two people ahead of us in line.”

Keller said that she doesn’t fault the Mariners, police or downtown. She said that she will still go to Mariners games.

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