A profanity-littered toilet was found in the middle of the street of a Grass Lawn neighborhood early Monday morning, just three nights after the area was hit with a rash of tire slashings.
A neighbor in the 13400 block of Northeast 119th Way reported at 12:55 a.m. that a toilet was sitting in the street with a piece of cardboard on the toilet seat that read, “F— You,” according to Redmond Police Department spokesperson Jim Bove.
Bove said another neighbor had replaced her toilet in her house and the old toilet was sitting in her front yard waiting to be picked up. Instead, sometime during the night, the toilet was moved to the middle of the street with the cardboard message.
The toilet incident comes just three nights after tires were reported slashed on five different vehicles in the same block, according to Bove.
Bove said this was first time in his five years with the police department that he has heard of a toilet being found in the middle of the street. This report can be filed in the unusual category, joining a 2009 report when a Lionsgate Townhomes resident told police he found a severed pig’s head on his front doorstep.
Bove said there are no suspects or leads to the recent Grass Lawn vandalism and that officers will talk to neighbors and see if they want to begin a Neighborhood Watch program. Currently, there is no program in place in that area, said Bove, who encouraged all residents to implement a Neighborhood Watch program.
“It’s always best when you know your neighbors and you are looking out for one another,” Bove said.
For more information on a neighborhood crime watch program, click here.
