RON AND DON

7 questions as Seattle’s ‘tent mansion’ is dismantled

Jul 3, 2018, 1:20 PM | Updated: 3:14 pm

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Tent Mansion was removed on Tuesday morning. (KIRO 7)

(KIRO 7)

The “Tent Mansion” in downtown Seattle (Third and Broad) is finally being removed. The City of Seattle says they just got to it “because their teams are stretched so thin right now and they can only dismantle two or three of these a day” (according to KIRO 7) in a city that now has over 400 encampments and thousands of illegal structures.

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If you haven’t heard, this is a tent set up on a sidewalk near the Space Needle. The folks living inside have “been offered services” by the city, but they are not interested in those services. This “Tent Mansion,” by the way, had its own keg.

So I have a few questions:

1. Why is the City of Seattle dismantling this structure? The gentleman who built the “mansion” is a self-described “out of work carpenter.” Why didn’t we put this carpenter to work? Well, it’s because he was too busy setting up another home on the other side of the building, according to him. That brings me to a second question?

2. How can you be an “out of work carpenter” in the city of Seattle right now?

3. Which then leads me to ask, what happened to the brazen couple living inside the structure? You know, the couple from Kansas City? We’ve now been told they were sent home on an airplane to live with family.

4. Which leads me to ask, why does the mayor always tell us the people on our streets are from Seattle?

5. Which makes me ponder, why didn’t you make them clean up after themselves, and then hand them two plane tickets?

6. Which then I think, what if we bought them bus tickets, instead, and then had more money left over to buy others bus tickets home?

7. But what I really want to know is where did the keg go?

Let your freedom ring. Happy Fourth!

See you on the radio.

~ don

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