This evening I was riding the C line from West Seattle back towards downtown. There were several presumably homeless people on the bus sleeping or conked out, usually nbd. While the bus was crossing the bridge, one of them got up, snatched my phone while swinging at me repeatedly, then climbed up and threw it out the window. She proceeded to yell nonsense into my face, then sat behind me telling me to jump out after it and mumbling about the wind.
I was pretty shocked so I just sat there for a minute while the others on the bus looked the other way. I went to the driver and said he needs to kick her off because I didn’t feel safe. Driver said he can’t do that so I made him let me out as soon as we were on 1st Ave. I had to find my way home from an unfamiliar stop amidst the crowds of drunk Dodgers fans leaving the area…
I’m trying to find where to report the incident but the only contact form I can find is for suggestions, and online police reporting says not to submit incidents that happened on transit.
I guess it’s my fault for paying too much attention to crosswords and didn’t see them coming 🤷♀️
e: we recovered the phone from the side of the highway. A truly pointless robbery in the end.
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