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| An eagle and a beaver walk into a bar |
| By Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Published: 07/16/2007 |
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Shift Commander Lt. Kenneth Hicks was leading Seattle's top law dog Chief Gil Kerlikowske on a closing-time tour of the city's Pioneer Square club district when the senior officers witnessed a man-on-eagle fracas, according to police documents. Four patrol officers rushed to the scene and secured the three men. None was injured, and all were later released without citations. Several mascots from Northwest universities had been at Pioneer Square on Saturday afternoon for a competition during the Fire Festival. While a police spokesman couldn't confirm the identity of those involved, police records list the eagle's hometown as Cheney -- home to the Eastern Washington University Eagles. The beaver hailed from Corvallis, Ore., abode of the Beavers of Oregon State University. Police Department spokeswoman Debra Brown said that when she spoke with Kerlikowske earlier this week, he described the incident as "bizarre." Brown said Kerlikowske had been accompanying Mayor Greg Nickels on a fact-finding excursion to the sometimes-raucous area so they could experience last call firsthand. Witnesses told police the costumed men had been jumping into traffic and harassing people on the sidewalk. The costume-clad men admitted to police that they had been jumping around the bar patron, but disputed the other man's claim that the eagle had landed on his back. |
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