[CanYoAssDigIt] In more crack news: Crack is good for you!

Charles Mudede, author of the best Police Beat column in America,
reports the startling news that two crack smokers fought, and fell 30
feet off an overpass on the freeway, and one suffered a broken leg and
the other did not appear to be seriously injured.

It seems like you'd expect such a fall to be fatal under normal
circumstances, so from now on, it's all crack, all the time, for me!

The last paragraph has nothing to do with anything, but I left it in
because I admire the poetry of Mudede's writing so much

Police Beat
BY CHARLES MUDEDE

From the Overpass/Downtown/Sat Sept 10/12:45 am: Officer Bell reports:
"Witness four reported bodies lying in the right exit lane under the
Yesler Way overpass. Upon my arrival I noticed two males, suspect one
and suspect two, lying below the northwest corner of the overpass.
Both were semiconscious, and SFD responded to the scene. Officers made
contact with three other witnesses on the top of the overpass. The
witnesses stated they were smoking crack with the two suspects in the
jungle area on the northeast corner of the Yesler Way overpass. After
smoking some crack, suspect one began walking away from the pack.
Suspect two thought he saw suspect one stealing narcotics from
[unsuspecting] witness three. Suspect one stopped suspect two on the
overpass. [The late-night traffic rushed below and the lights of
sleeping office towers rose into a sky whose stars were barely
visible.]

"The suspects began to argue. The suspects began to struggle.
Suddenly, both fell over the edge of the overpass and landed on I-5,
in the right lane. The fall was approximately 30 feet. One suspect
sustained a broken leg, the other did not appear to be seriously
injured. Both were transported to Harborview Medical Center."

Late this morning, while walking to the Public Safety Building (where
the police reports are arranged for me on a small table in a small
press room), I crossed the overpass that the pair of lucky crackheads
fell from on the night of September 10 (lucky because they survived
the fall, the concrete, and the traffic). The Yesler Way overpass not
only connects the Central District to the Business District, but is
also one of the few points from which our city bares itself so
shamelessly. From here, you can survey the main parts of Seattle in
the way you might survey the main parts of a nude body that's resting
next to you in bed—the soft lips, the length of the throat, the rising
flesh of the chest, the flat belly, the soft sex. Starbucks'
headquarters, the sports stadiums that are abreast, the endless glass
skin of the Bank of America Tower, the edge of the Boeing airfield—all
of this and much, much more (Amazon.com on Beacon Hill, medical
facilities on First Hill, King County Jail, the orange cranes on
Harbor Island) can be seen and appreciated from Yesler Way's arching
overpass.

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