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Anger over ‘Ride the Ducks’ Ramp & More News

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By Lauren Mang February 16, 2015

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A Queen Anne apartment building has experienced a bit of mayhem throughout the last few months. A thief broke in Sunday morning after he pried the building’s front door open and stole tools from a storage closet and (ew) rummaged through people’s laundry in the laundry room. In late December, a woman was caught on surveillance video also in the laundry room after she broke into the same building.

The Sponge Bob movie might have had a better showing in Seattle than the set-in-Seattle romance Fifty Shades of Grey. The Puget Sound Business Journal‘s Patti Payne surprisingly reports that the steamy novel-turned-movie opened to a “lackluster response” here at home.

My azaleas are already blooming and they don’t seem to mind that they’re a tad too early. Why? The weather this winter has been so warm that we’re set to shatter a record for the warmest winter since 1945 “when Sea-Tac Airport became Seattle’s official observation,” according to Komo News.

Eastlake residents are up in arms (wings?) over a new ramp leading into Lake Union that’s intended for the Ride the Ducks tour. According to The Seattle Times, the attraction, which transports people around town via land and sea while a boisterous tour guide blasts music and narrates the passing landscape over a loudspeaker, will launch into the water from a ramp that’s “to be built about 100 yards” from a floating home and “just south of a small waterfront park” in the neighborhood. Duck boats will drive up Fairview Avenue East to get to the ramp. Eastlake residents are comparing the quacking, amphibious vehicles to having “a Disneyland ride move into your living room.”

 

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