Cops Break Up Fight Between Bar Patron, Guy In Eagle Suit (Man Dressed As Beaver Looked On)

[matcom]

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Who knew Chief Gil Kerlikowske was a bird lover?

During a last-call stroll through Pioneer Square early Sunday morning, Seattle's top law dog helped break up a sidewalk fight between a bar patron and a man in an eagle suit.

Lt. Kenneth Hicks, shift commander at the precinct that includes Pioneer Square, was leading Kerlikowske on a closing-time tour of the club district when the senior officers witnessed a man-on-eagle fracas, according to police documents.

The officers watched as a 30-year-old Seattle man shoved the eagle to the curb and then stomped on the costumed man's back as the eagle's costumed confederate -- a man dressed as a beaver -- looked on.

Four patrol officers rushed to the scene, at the corner of First Avenue South and South Washington Street, 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.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/323300_eagle12.html

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. Oh, mascots.

I thought it was another furry/yiff convention.

:shrug:

[some guy]

2. the bar patron

represented Georgia-Pacific timber industry.


















































( or something - had to have all been about timber cutting and lack of concern for endangered species )

:)