Booze, a bachelor and a loose bowling ball: How one U-District fight started

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Booze, a bachelor and a loose bowling ball: How one U-District fight started

Yes, we know this happened last Sunday, but it seemed interesting enough to post for some weekend police reading.

A group of young men were out carousing in the University District Aug. 24 at a bachelor party for their buddy when someone, as a prank, chained a bowling ball to his ankle.

Around 1:40 a.m., as the groom crossed the 5200 block of University Way Northeast, the bowling ball came loose due to a "shoddily attached" screw, according to the Seattle police report. The ball rolled into a motorcycle parked nearby.

Moments later, a second group of men arrived, demanding to know who threw the ball at the motorcycle. Men in both groups had been drinking, police said.

An argument broke out and someone in the second group allegedly grabbed the bowling ball and hurled it at a Lynnwood man from the bachelor party, hitting him in the chest, according to one of his friends.

Later, the man accused of tossing the ball told police he was the victim, and was hit by the bowling ball in the head when someone in the other group threw it at him.

Officers could not sort out the stories, though they determined the motorcycle was not damaged.

One man did go to Harborview Medical Center for a cut to his forehead, though it wasn't clear from reports if that man was the one who claimed to have been assaulted.

And the bowling ball?

The officers took it as evidence.

Posted by at August 30, 2008 1:35 p.m.

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#172718

Posted by unregistered user at 8/30/08 2:13 p.m.

Alcohol is the devil's urine.

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#172738

Posted by Old Goat at 8/30/08 3:36 p.m.

'....a bachelor party for their buddy.' Wow! What an original idea! Just a bunch of invincible weenies who can't hold their liquor.

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#172813

Posted by EdmondsNative at 8/30/08 6:16 p.m.

Devils urine.....Good one. You writing a movie script?

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#172817

Posted by dtifft at 8/30/08 6:27 p.m.

What kind of bowling ball could apparently cause so little physical damage, especially when thrown at either someone's chest or head?

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#172834

Posted by unregistered user at 8/30/08 7:38 p.m.

Nerf bowling ball

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#172836

Posted by unregistered user at 8/30/08 7:42 p.m.

Obviously you're not a golfer.

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#172837

Posted by unregistered user at 8/30/08 7:44 p.m.

F*** it dude, let's go bowling.

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#172840

Posted by unregistered user at 8/30/08 7:47 p.m.

Take the pinheads bowling, take them bowling...

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#172842

Posted by unregistered user at 8/30/08 7:53 p.m.

Quintana man, that creep can roll.

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#172851

Posted by ducttape2 at 8/30/08 9:26 p.m.

When bowling balls are outlawed, only outlaws will have bowling balls.

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#172852

Posted by benqmember at 8/30/08 9:35 p.m.

Potheads never start fights.

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#172924

Posted by unregistered user at 8/31/08 7:45 a.m.

That is because potheads never leave their mom's basement.

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#172965

Posted by sane and simple at 8/31/08 11:23 a.m.

After he's been married for awhile, this dude will realize the best way would be to use lag bolts that are epoxyed into the bowling ball. Or a simple through bolt with an eye at the end. If he had done that the motorcycle dude would have just pointed and laughed until he went home to his own marital misery.

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#173014

Posted by unregistered user at 8/31/08 3:21 p.m.

The potheads you hang with are in their mom's basement - most users are functioning pillars of their communities; moron

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