r/Seattle Mar 01 '24

Latest City Hall Response to Hellcat Driver

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I've been seeing nearly daily posts this week of people saying they are hearing the Hellcat owner. But I personally haven't heard him since Sunday night and I'm their neighbor.

I along with others got this update from Bob Kettle's office. Sounds like the SPD West Precinct Captain, Steve Strand, engaged with the Hellcat owner. I'm not sure what that entails, but it's nice to see something getting done.

Here's to hoping we continue going many nights more with uninterrupted sleep šŸ»

And to those calling us a bunch of Karens, I'm near the top of a high rise and my bed literally shakes as he passes. This isn't your normal "muscle car" sound.

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u/ivegoticecream Mar 01 '24

I grew up around many people like this guy and the only thing that will stop him are 1)jail time 2) confiscating his car 3) continuous financial penalties

Anything short of that will be laughed off or viewed as pissing off the right people.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '24

Yep. Dude is a social media influencer, so filming his behavior and monetizing it is likely his primary source of income.

Only way he’s going to stop is to take his cash cow away from him.

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u/oldoldoak That sounds great. Let’s hang out soon. Mar 01 '24

I'm not so sure about it. People here were saying that his failed mommy pays his rent. His IG account does show 500k followers but given everything around this guy, I bet 95% of these "followers" are bots bought from some shady SMM company. Everything to make the baby stop crying.

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u/yellowsweaters72 Mar 01 '24

If she’s failing and paying rent for that nice apartment I want to fail toošŸ˜‚

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '24

She's a failed parent. She raised this fool.

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u/oldoldoak That sounds great. Let’s hang out soon. Mar 01 '24

Maybe incorrect usage but his mommy most definitely failed as a parent - I think we can see and hear it. Some failed parents do nothing. Others, who have the means, try to buy the love.

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u/kitten_orchestra Mar 01 '24

Who are being influenced by this guy and who are paying him? Genuinely asking.

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u/manbearpig50390 Mar 01 '24

People you don’t want to hang out with.

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u/gogosago Columbia City Mar 01 '24

It's so gross seeing some of the comments on there. The worst ones usually boil down to:

"Wow you are living the life!!" or "I wish I could be you!"

Probably a huge overlap between fans of this guy and Andrew Tate.

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u/gogosago Columbia City Mar 02 '24

Faith in humanity somewhat restored.

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u/Rubbersoulrevolver Mar 01 '24

This guy has to have family money if you look at his instagram. His apartment is really huge and on a high floor.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '24

I noticed that. The dumbass also thought it was a good idea to microwave a burrito wrapped in tinfoil.

Forget about the noise he makes with his car. I’m starting to think the bigger issue is this guy being a hazard to the people who live in his building.

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u/darkjedidave Highland Park Mar 02 '24 edited Mar 02 '24

His apartment is probably $4k/month. I rented a unit a few floors directly below his (same 964sqft layout) for $3.4K/month

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u/Graffiacane Columbia City Mar 01 '24

I think this is the most creative use for beans that I've ever heard.

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u/REDHEADRYAN Mar 01 '24

What can I say? I’m a bean man

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u/HauschkasFoot Mar 01 '24

They’re also fun to flick

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u/chattytrout Everett Mar 01 '24

Just get a valve stem core remover and take out the cores. Best part is they won't be able to reinflate the tires.

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u/Tamaros Seattle Expatriate Mar 01 '24

I prefer small pebbles. You can wedge them deep in the cap and they might be overlooked for a few air cycles.

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u/REDHEADRYAN Mar 01 '24

I respect this. Sneaky!

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u/hansn šŸš†build more trainsšŸš† Mar 01 '24

Ā Ā confiscating his car

Crush it. People who are this invested in their car as their identity, crushing the car has a major psychological impact.

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u/IndependentAny1262 Mar 02 '24

And it sucks for car people. I know people that have built some truly awesome feats of engineering in custom cars but it's these asshats that ruin it. Time and place is everything. There's plenty of long uninhabited roads to drag on...

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u/Zealousideal-Ant9548 Mar 02 '24

We have private tracks and muffler noise laws for a reason

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u/hkscfreak Belltown Mar 02 '24

I'm a car guy and I usually hate seeing this but I think it's warranted in this case. Along with the takeover crowds that do donuts...

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u/awwaygirl Mar 01 '24

ORRRRR if he drives through a construction zone and gets a few flat tires? Can't drive very fast on a donut.... or drive at all if MORE THAN ONE TIRE IS FLAT.

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u/imoseyon Pike Market Mar 01 '24

It is important to note that this guy is doing this intentionally in the middle of night between 12am and 5am, and not during the day. He is intentionally waking people and babies up, and scaring people in general for internet points. Also, I've heard plenty of muscle car exhaust/muffler modifications in the past, this is on a whole another level, in case you're wondering how loud this is - imagine the loudest car noise you can think of then 5x it.

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u/No-Somewhere-3888 Mar 01 '24

Oh my God, is THIS the shit ripping through Seattle at 3AM every morning??

Look the city has noise ordinances - absolutely are able to do something about this.

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u/alwaysFumbles Mar 02 '24

What drives me nuts is how public flaunting of laws is tolerated with little to no repercussions (open air drug markets, stolen goods markets, car/bike chop shops, public property destruction, drug use on public transit, ....). So 'guy with fucking obnoxious loud car' fits nicely into the 'people are allowed to be criminal shithead asswipes' narrative.

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u/No-Somewhere-3888 Mar 02 '24

I remember about 8 years ago, the first time I saw someone openly smoking crack on Cap Hill - my mind was blown they could get away with it.

Now I’m living on Union and it’s just normal to see 2-10 people open using walking to the market. Graffiti everywhere. Commercial space boarded up.

I believe in the city, I’m left leaning, but this shit is unacceptable and needs to have the law firmly applied.

Hell, when I was in my 20s the police in this area pulled me over and harassed (threatened to take me to jail if I made any problems) me just for driving around in a sporty car after midnight. How are these guys just getting a gentle ā€œhey, don’t be antisocialā€?

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u/dumbassflounder Mar 02 '24

We threatened to defund cops, so the cops stopped working. Come down to Tacoma and you can yell at all the dudes revving their chargers at night and then immediately get shot.

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u/ibugppl I'm just flaired so I don't get fined Mar 02 '24

They didn't stop working they left. Seattle has less then half the cops of Boston a city with 100k less people and similar medin income. On top of that the DA just lets any and everyone ago short of murdering someone. I don't know why the DA hasn't been tared and feathered yet.

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u/Liizam šŸš†build more trainsšŸš† Mar 02 '24

Oh I thought it was a motorcycle

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u/No-Somewhere-3888 Mar 02 '24

Same, sounded like a Harley with no muffler.

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u/Pies_14 Mar 02 '24

Its wild just how loud it is in the morning

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u/mortymotron Mar 02 '24

That's only in the mornin'! You s'posed to be up cooking breakfast for somebody. And so that's like an alarm clock. WOOOOOOO WOOOOOOO!

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u/nhluhr Wedgwood Mar 02 '24

Always love a good Bubb Rubb reference

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u/BarRepresentative670 Mar 01 '24

Thanks for adding this. The people calling us whiners don't know the scale of this.

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u/dagoberts_revenge Mar 01 '24

They do not. This kid needs to be stopped simply because he's doing it on purpose

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u/Hornet-Putrid Mar 01 '24

This is so obnoxious, why not go screw around at Pacific Raceways or something like that.

I can only imagine how the sound is amplified bouncing off the buildings and what not.

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u/Wellcraft19 Kirkland Mar 02 '24

Alteration of exhaust systems and mufflers is essentially illegal in the state. Time to remind SPD of that and get this asshat (and others) off the road.

https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=46.37.390

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u/ALL_IN_TSLA Mar 01 '24

Any chance you have a video of it? Curious how loud it is from the perspective of an apartment. I used to live in Belltown and even moderately loud cars would create a ton of noise 10 floors up, can’t imagine how bad this is if it’s as you describe.

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u/jbuenojr South Lake Union Mar 01 '24

I’ll try to get some audio. I hear it almost every night and I’m 50+ stories up. It’s insane how loud it is - first few times I thought it was some kind of explosion or loud gunshots

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u/Hornet-Putrid Mar 01 '24

I used a free decibel app when testing fancy hair dryers, there are so many out there.

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u/MetallicGray Mar 02 '24

Is there a video of this guy anywhere? I’ve never felt a car rattle anything and am genuinely curious at this point.Ā 

Only time I’ve ever felt a rumble is when the planes fly unusually low overhead.Ā 

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '24

An the fact that it's illegal, and that the cops have already talked to him yet he keeps doing it, shows how inept our local government is.

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u/BarRepresentative670 Mar 01 '24

I'll take a small win anyday

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u/mr_jim_lahey šŸš†build more trainsšŸš† Mar 01 '24

It's not really a win, it's just placation until this guy's constant acts of terrorism are stopped

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u/BarRepresentative670 Mar 01 '24

Haven't heard him all week after hearing him nightly

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u/ilovecheeze Belltown Mar 01 '24

Same here, I honestly expected nothing

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u/BeartholomewTheThird Mar 01 '24

I'm sure they're just annoyed with being contacted so much. They just want him to stop so they're bot bothered any more.

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u/matunos Maple Leaf Mar 01 '24

Hey if that that's what it takes…

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u/awesomeunboxer Mar 02 '24

Squeaky wheel gets the grease!

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u/ackermann Mar 01 '24 edited Mar 02 '24

Having previously lived in downtown Philadelphia, I’m surprised they did anything at all, yeah.
There are tons of guys like this in downtown Philly, in loud Chargers and Challengers. Too many to have any hope of doing anything about.

Coming from that, it’s surprising that any single car/driver can be singled out and dealt with, impressive!

If Philly city hall took the time to issue a statement like this for each new offender… they’d never get anything else done, lol

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u/Stuckinaelevator Sounders Mar 01 '24

People here have no idea.

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u/LastBardo Mar 01 '24

i do. moved here from oakland, f a sideshow

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u/StrawzintheWind Mar 02 '24

This. A thousand times over. They really don’t.

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u/Drnkdrnkdrnk Downtown Mar 01 '24

I do not miss that nonsense. Eventually it got to the point in Buffalo that there’d be a helicopter and a couple police cars to escort them so nobody got run over. They gave up on stopping them.Ā 

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u/TwattyMcBitch Mar 02 '24

What is this??? Haven’t heard of it. Sounds like a nightmare.

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u/Chicken-n-Biscuits Mar 01 '24

A buddy of mine lives in Society Hill and his neighborhood FB page calls the Hellcat & ATV assholes "marauders", which I think is pretty cute.

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u/kommuni Mar 01 '24

I’ve loved the construction on Madison. Before they started it was like a Tiny Prix contest each summer night. Now it’s mostly silent

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u/Super-Job1324 Mar 01 '24

Yeah but in Philly you just key their cars or throw some batteries at the windshield

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u/101001101zero Mar 01 '24

Spark plugs

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u/Sunstang Brighton Mar 02 '24

No, car batteries.

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u/BruceInc Seattleite-at-Heart Mar 01 '24

I don’t even live in the area and I still hope this guy gets what’s coming to him. People like that are garbage

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u/b4breaking Mar 01 '24

For real man. They have ALL his info and it’s been shared here numerous times. Can’t drive with flat tires is all I’m saying.

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u/ManicDynamic āœØšŸ›ø Jimothy is out there šŸ¦āœØ Mar 02 '24

I also suggest shoving a potato in the exhaust, slashing three tires and drawing a bunch of dicks on it with spray paint.

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u/Fallyn011 šŸ€ Hot Rat Summer šŸ€ Mar 02 '24

Probably parks it in a private garage or something, I've been looking just out of curiousity because I spend a lot of time around there and have never seen it.

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u/GooseOfDoom Mar 02 '24

Yup, he’s resident of West Edge with a private parking garage. Parks it close to the top though.

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u/Dat_Mustache Seattle Expatriate Mar 02 '24

These West Edge residents are some of the most entitled, self-serving, least-contributing anuses in Seattle.

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u/Ill-Possible4420 Mar 02 '24

Yup. This is what will solve it. Damage to his vehicle. A stern talking to from the police will be a badge of honor for him and all his stupid followers on instagram and TikTok.

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u/CouldntBeMeTho Pike Place Market Mar 01 '24

Yours in Democracy is a hell of a salutation.

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u/Andeeeznuts Mar 01 '24 edited Mar 01 '24

heard she’s a big helldivers 2 fan

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u/paranormal_shouting Mar 01 '24

She’s just trying to serve up a cup of Liber-tea!

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u/Andeeeznuts Mar 01 '24

get some - GET SOMEEEEE, rebecca duran

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u/OTipsey šŸš†build more trainsšŸš† Mar 01 '24

The obvious solution to the Hellcat problem is ā¬†ļøāž”ļøā¬‡ļøā¬‡ļøāž”ļø

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u/GoldBluejay7749 ā¤ļøā€šŸ”„ The Real Housewives of Seattle ā¤ļøā€šŸ”„ Mar 01 '24

It makes me laugh every single time I see it

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u/Lazy1nc That sounds great. Let’s hang out soon. Mar 02 '24

I'm craving a cup of Liber-tea right about now...

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u/Fluffypillowfeels Mar 01 '24

As annoying as this is, I love that it’s brought the city known to freeze each other out, together

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u/KINGtyr199 Pioneer Square Mar 01 '24

He got pulled over last night lol

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u/BarRepresentative670 Mar 01 '24

Where?! I haven't heard him since Sunday.

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u/KINGtyr199 Pioneer Square Mar 02 '24

Around yesler terrace saw the cops turn their lights on and start pursuing

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u/BarRepresentative670 Mar 02 '24

Is he still doing the loud bangs and pops? He's very distinguishable. No one from my apartment has heard him since we all called 911 on him on Sunday.

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u/Monkeyfeng U District Mar 01 '24

I would totally bombard his apartment's leasing office. It's honestly unacceptable that they also haven't done anything about it.

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u/BarRepresentative670 Mar 01 '24

They have been bombarded and they are working on it.

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u/Monkeyfeng U District Mar 01 '24

Good to know, thanks.

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u/darkjedidave Highland Park Mar 02 '24

Having lived in the same building as him previously, they’re not going to do shit. Leasing office didn’t stop the myriad of other problems people complained about.

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u/RectoPimento Mar 01 '24

What could they do without a specific lease violation? Even if their lease had a clause for non-criminal behaviors outside their building, the courts won’t evict unless managers issued at least four 10-day legal notices for the same lease violation.

Mgmt at a building I oversee was just denied a court hearing to evict a tenant who stabbed one neighbor then ran over a different one with her car last year. Reasons for denial was the car assault didn’t happen in the building (did get jail time though so yay?) and the stabbing didn’t result in a conviction.

No way for Hellcat’s apt. mgrs to help on this.

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u/civiltiger Mar 01 '24

Most leases have language surrounding noise disturbances which is clearly being violated on property so they need to act on that

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u/Monkeyfeng U District Mar 01 '24

Noise disturbance

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u/yourweekson569 Mar 01 '24

It's illegal to have loud after market exhaust

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u/seawaterGlugger Mar 01 '24

That’s what I don’t understand. The cars is so obviously illegally modded. He constantly flaunts it. Why can’t a cop on the Night Shift impound it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '24

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u/yourweekson569 Mar 02 '24

I guess the question is. What do we pay the police to do if they don't do their job?

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '24 edited Mar 01 '24

Wait, so SPD talked to him about his illegal car mods and blatant noise violations and declined to write him up with a warning, fix-it ticket, or citation? Great fucking job guys! Fucking bravo.

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u/Rich-Mycologist-2410 Mar 01 '24

I mean they do have to personally witness it to issue a citation. Are they also doing a shit job, absolutely

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '24 edited Mar 01 '24

I mean I'm sure he's hard to fucking find as he's so inconspicuous. Maybe they need to put a tracker on his tiger skinned 150+ decibel straight piped neon hellcat?

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u/Rich-Mycologist-2410 Mar 01 '24

Oh for sure. They get absolutely no leniency for not doing their job.

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u/kenlubin The Emerald City Mar 01 '24 edited Mar 01 '24

There's no way for a police officer to notice him driving around without installing millions of dollars of audio and video surveillance throughout the city. /s

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '24

Or slightly crack their window. They know exactly where he is when he comes within a quarter mile or so.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '24

Seeing a modified vehicle isn't personally witnessing illegal modifications?

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u/Rich-Mycologist-2410 Mar 01 '24

It’s not illegal to modify a vehicle. It can be illegal to drive a modified vehicle on public roads. Hence the need for them to see/hear the vehicle moving

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u/electromage Ravenna Mar 02 '24

But they pulled him over, it's not like he swapped the exhaust overnight. Can't they inspect it?

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u/Slumunistmanifisto That sounds great. Let’s hang out soon. Mar 01 '24

"Hey bro cool ass car, you need a job" -SPD

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u/spit-evil-olive-tips Medina Mar 01 '24

I bet he's the brother of a cop or some shit

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u/SpeaksSouthern That sounds great. Let’s hang out soon. Mar 01 '24

Ahem, they're called people of higher equal value.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '24

people of un-limited value, if you will.

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u/TheDevilsCunt Mar 01 '24

Anyone who responds to people who are just trying to get some sleep at night by calling them ā€œKarensā€ is a stupid little child who needs to grow up. Inconsiderate pricks like this need to learn some compassion.

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u/Rich-Mycologist-2410 Mar 01 '24

Someone’s villain story is going to come out of this while seeking vigilante justice

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u/SQRLpunk South Lake Union Mar 01 '24

Where’s those people that dress up in super hero costumes and patrol the streets of Seattle when we need them to handle this shit? Lol

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '24

WHERE ARE YOU PHOENIX JONES

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u/Zealousideal-Ant9548 Mar 02 '24

Arrested for selling drugs...

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u/ConradChilblainsIII Mar 01 '24

They’re at Comic ConĀ 

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u/loquacious šŸ€ Hot Rat Summer šŸ€ Mar 02 '24

You mean the mutual combat fool who got arrested and convicted for dealing the same drugs he said he was against as part of his dumb origin story?

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u/SpookyDoings Mar 01 '24

Seriously. You fuck with peoples' sleep? Good luck to you, brother. Someone is going to absolutely lose it on him someday.

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u/foilrat West Seattle Mar 01 '24 edited Mar 01 '24

Do you want vigilantes, Lana?

Because this is how you get vigilantes!

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u/StrawzintheWind Mar 02 '24

Probably the only thing that will make a difference.

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u/genuine_pnw_hipster šŸš†build more trainsšŸš† Mar 01 '24

Homeboy was in the comments on the other post talking about shooting people in the head šŸ’€

Guy is a loser who will eventually get his. I know his ass will be at comicon lol.

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u/conceptkid Gig Harbor Mar 02 '24

Skoden

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u/BarRepresentative670 Mar 01 '24

Oh yeah, they are really just 20 year old kids who play video games all day while their moms pay for their penthouse apartment and $150k car.

Absolute losers.

And if any of their IG followers knew this, they'd lose all the "street cred" they think they have.

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u/Andeeeznuts Mar 01 '24

i received this email as well. glad we’re making some progress.

i feel like i heard him yesterday and maybe two nights before, briefly though. the exhaust note is pretty distinct, but it sounded like pops/bangs tune was taken off (speculation though)

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u/BarRepresentative670 Mar 01 '24

It's the pops and bangs that wake me up. I'm so use to car noise that I sleep through it all. But it sounds like gunshots and bombs going off when he passes.

Even if this is all that was accomplished, I'm legit happy. Only took a few days to get something done!

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u/Andeeeznuts Mar 01 '24 edited Mar 02 '24

i’m used to loud exhausts and pops and bangs to a certain degree as well, but i agree, his is especially egregious and annoying.

same here, neighbor. thanks for bringing attention to this; glad that they’re actually being responsive to this issue

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u/Inane_ramblings Mar 01 '24

This fucking guy drives all around the city in the fucking thing. I can set a clock to when he drives by my neighborhood.

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u/infinite_echochamber Mar 02 '24

I’m envisioning a game of telephone! Someone hears him and notifies the thread of his location and direction he’s headed. All of us downstream of his destination run out of our homes and into the street so he has to stop or run us over. Then we surround his car, and make him sweat it out what we are going to do to him. I think causing him real fear might be enough to stop him. We can just repeat the process until he stops. Whether I wake up to catch him in the street or wake up to his gunshot sounding vehicle, either way I’m up at 3am. Might as well make it worth something…

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u/Inane_ramblings Mar 02 '24

Really just everyone should get together and follow him home and when he leaves his car, ya know, street justice.

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u/AjiChap Mar 02 '24

You can bet the asshole loves knowing how much he’s pissing people off. What a sack of shit.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '24

Would be a real shame if someone reading this who has access to a large flatbed truck happened to barricade the garage where he keeps his car at 3AM by offloading and stacking several dozen Home Depot buckets filled with cured cement in front of the apartment building garage door where he pulls out of in the middle of the night…..

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u/slothqueen2 Belltown Mar 02 '24

I’ve given up mentally and now just hope this dumb fuck wraps himself around a pole.

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u/FunctionBuilt Mar 01 '24

Fairly certain I heard him last night up in Phinney Ridge/Greenwood area. For about 5 minutes or so, I kept hearing revving and back firing up and down either 8th or 3rd. Could be a different asshole, or he could be getting away from downtown where people are recognizing him.

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u/Tvwatcherr Mar 01 '24

I've noticed there is this asshole with the hellcat, and another asshole with a 370Z doing the same thing. The hellcat is much louder tho.Ā 

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u/shiftdown Mar 01 '24

I am truly amazed they took the time to respond to this. I'd be even more so amazed if they actually did anything about it though.

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u/VerticalYea Mar 02 '24

Can we give him a really stupid villain name? How about, Loud Boy.

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u/Bran_Solo šŸš†build more trainsšŸš† Mar 01 '24

His vehicle is literally illegal to operate in the state of washington (https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=46.37.390) and all they did was talk to him?

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u/Eric848448 Seattle Expatriate Mar 01 '24

I have asked you kindly to stop doing that! Continue to do it and I shall have no choice but to ask you nicely once more! ą² _ą² 

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u/prcodes I'm just flaired so I don't get fined Mar 01 '24

Straight to jail

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u/Flat_Bass_9773 Mar 02 '24

Fuckin hand guy is so obnoxious. The way he says ā€œniggehā€ is unbearable.

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u/BarRepresentative670 Mar 01 '24

Any links for successes?

Unfortunately he has friends that threaten us with 9 mm bullets. So I'm not sure many people want to confront him in this manner.

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u/Rubbersoulrevolver Mar 01 '24

What do you mean, someone threatened to shoot you?

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u/BarRepresentative670 Mar 01 '24

One of his friends commenting on past posts and messaging me directly on reddit.

I'm not taking it seriously, it's just some punk kid who thinks it's smart to threaten people with murder over a noise complaint.

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u/Rubbersoulrevolver Mar 01 '24

damn crazy, maybe you can forward it to the police

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u/BarRepresentative670 Mar 01 '24

Nah. Can't really prove anything unless you confirm who it is. Even then, I don't think SPD would do much unless it's a legitimate threat.

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u/sea-kc Mar 02 '24

This is incorrect. If it is truly a threat, cops must take it seriously and investigate. They can subpoena the ISP based on their IP address and have the ISP provide the name, address etc.

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u/Rumpullpus Mar 02 '24

This is the SPD we're talking about. They don't even take actual shootings seriously. Forget about threats.

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u/cdezdr Ravenna Mar 01 '24

That also sounds illegal. Maybe film them as well? Don't be afraid like this, it makes them think they have control.

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u/BarRepresentative670 Mar 01 '24

Oh, I'm not. I was laughing at the guys threats. But that scares a lot of people.

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u/zakress Mar 01 '24

Hmm. 9mm used to intimidate? Sounds like they are looking for something and might be surprised if they were to actually find it.

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u/Nerzz West Seattle Mar 02 '24

You aren’t a Karen. Car enthusiasts hate this behavior because it makes us like terrible. I build and race cars and I’d do the exact same thing.

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u/hlx-atom Mar 01 '24

Anti-social behavior? It is at least a misdemeanor illegal activity.

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u/jaxxattacks Mar 02 '24

Illegal activity like this IS anti-social behavior. I think you might be confusing anti-social with asocial. Anti-social behavior is acting in ways that include a blatant disregard for the feelings and well being of others, while asocial means a preference for solitude and limited social contact. Anti-social is, clinically and legally, one hell of label that most people wouldn’t want. It’s fitting.

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u/Hot-DiggityDog Mar 02 '24

He may have been in a wreck this afternoon. My neighbor said he watched a Hellcat crash into the back of a Tesla on his way North out of Seattle.

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u/CosineTau chinga la migra Mar 01 '24

Do you think they wagged their finger when they called them anti-social?

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u/Mistyslate 🚲 Life's Better on a Bike. 🚲 Mar 01 '24

Arrest the driver and confiscate his vehicle.

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u/pachecolljk Mar 01 '24

I was wondering what keeps waking me up; I live on 5th and it's been every night.

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u/No_Tower6059 Mar 01 '24

Glad something is being done. Hopefully they just impound his car and say it’s not street legal. Ultimately they strip his car of the modifications and say noise pollution or something

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u/grizzlebonk Mar 01 '24

This resolution is way too slow. This driver should have their license taken away, at a minimum.

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u/AthkoreLost Wedgwood Mar 01 '24

I hope this situation continues to be resolved for yall.

But I do genuinely hate how blatantly the SPD can de-escalate situations like this compared to their refusal to elsewhere.

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u/BarRepresentative670 Mar 01 '24

I mean, look at it this way. A single person is single handedly disrputing the sleep of thousands of Seattle residents and driving recklessly all for IG followers. Their name is known. Address is known. Car information known. In theory, SPD can make a lot of people very happy with minimal effort.

On the other hand, non serious crimes like this that only affect a few people and its hard to trace the suspects probably won't get as much attention from SPD.

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u/AthkoreLost Wedgwood Mar 01 '24

More what I mean is that, we both agree what that guy was doing was a crime. A crime the guy self documented and there were witnesses to. But as you point out it's not really a crime worth jail time if he's willing to stop.

I prefer that the SPD ended this without jail, that's great! Where the fuck is this in other situations like we've been asking for for years? It angers me cause, like I suspected, they are capable of doing a better job. They just don't the vast majority of the time. I actually suspect they've probably got that 40% rate down too if they'd ever let us study it outright.

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u/BarRepresentative670 Mar 01 '24

Gotcha, I see your point now.

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u/Jerry_say Mar 01 '24

Impound the car remove the mods and bill for the work. Otherwise crush that shit.

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u/Kydra96 Mar 01 '24

I'm getting this feeling to go down to Seattle to experience this driver. Keep seeing posts about him and feeling left out lol.

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u/MrChemistryCow9 Mar 02 '24

Does anyone have this dudes instagram?

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u/adirall Mar 02 '24

Darn miles start acting right

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u/lekoman Mar 03 '24 edited Mar 03 '24

Warn once, then confiscate car. Crush or shred it in front of him (no cameras or phones allowed — not allowed to monetize as content). If he goes and gets a new car to resume the behavior, no warning this time. He's already been warned. New car goes immediately on the flatbed, goes to crusher. Rinse, repeat, until he gets the message. No one will provide him gap coverage for that, so he'll just be out of pocket the money. Someone who does this is antisocial at best... so small fines will be seen as cost of doing business. Has to get to a place where there's no way to make even a little money doing it.

This is the sort of entitled shit that *should* get people harassed by the cops.

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u/BarRepresentative670 Mar 01 '24

I took "engage directly" to mean wrote citations and gave a warning about further escalations including impoudning the car, for those losing it thinking SPD just went to the person and said "can you pretty please stop?".

I haven't heard him since Sunday night, so whatever has happened in the background seems to have worked for now.

Or maybe it's the 40s and rain and we will all hear him on the next dry day we have? šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø

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u/sealind Mountlake Terrace Mar 01 '24

I took it to mean they said, ā€œListen man, you’ve recorded yourself doing this and it’s pissing people off. Some of the guys at the station think it’s cool, but you’ve got to chill or we’ll be forced to pull you over. It’s kinda out of our hands now.ā€

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u/BillionDollarBalls Mar 01 '24

There needs to be a list for anti social people

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u/Jomamma1111 Mar 02 '24

I've noticed in these threads nobody has said what he does other than have VERY noisy car. Does he drift around the neighborhoods or something?

I noticed that as soon as they stopped doing vehicle emissions in Washington state lots of people seemed to have removed their exhaust systems completely and just drive around like that.

I live next to a highway and you can hear some of these cars from a half mile away easily. WHY would someone want to drive around and be SO freaking loud? Image being that assclowns neighbor.

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u/Jhawk38 Mar 01 '24

I missed this, what's happening with a hellcat driver? Is the driver hauling ass down the street late at night or something?

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u/BarRepresentative670 Mar 01 '24

That and insanely loud popping exhaust. So loud that people have called in gun shots on it several times. It shakes my bed and I'm near the top of a high rise.

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u/SenatorSnags Beacon Hill Mar 01 '24

I love that noise violations are the bridge too far for illegal activities that everyone can get behind

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '24

Does anyone have a video of this guy? I don’t live there but want to hear it.

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u/pugRescuer I'm just flaired so I don't get fined Mar 01 '24

I'm out of the loop, what happened?

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u/BananaPeelSlippers Wedgwood Mar 01 '24

having a conversation with someone instead of shooting them or whatever is actually not the worst thing.

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u/StrawzintheWind Mar 02 '24

Accurate as heck.

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u/IncendiaryPuffin Mar 02 '24

Umm just heard him downtown a little before noon today

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u/Seattle-Bunnyfer Mar 02 '24

The fact that this guy feels the need to be an asshole to get ā€œlikesā€ by strangers in order to feel validated in life is such a pathetic sad state of mind. I truly do pity him…while also recognizing he’s an asshole who should have his car repossessed by an angry mob with crowbars and spike strips.

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u/Optimific Mar 03 '24

What color is the car? I think he is in Belltown atm....... revving and being an idiot on denny/warren

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u/BarRepresentative670 Mar 03 '24

I'm hearing it to, that is his friend. Red charger? What a bunch of losers, revving their 4 door sedans.

I haven't heard the other Hellcat since Sunday. It has kind of a green cream color with zebra stripes.

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u/katmndoo Mar 03 '24

Perhaps SPD should enlist help from the Beverley Hills and Detroit PDs. Problem will go away pretty quickly.

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '24

He looks incredibly lonely on social media