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Liquor Delivery, Marshawn Lynch Returns Lost Wallet & More

The top Seattle news stories you should be reading today

By Lauren Mang November 19, 2014

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Today I learned that liquor delivery in Seattle is a thing. Glorious. Read on:

Lynch and Lynch: Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch has been in the news a lot lately. On Monday, he discussed his potentially uncertain Seahawks future with the NFL Network and today he’s being heralded for returning a lost wallet he found at a gas station. The wallet belonged to a Seahawks fan named Jason Lynch. According to Jason Lynch’s Facebook page:

“Crazy! So I’m at the shell station in Marysville. I’m getting in my car when I see a giant Mercedez van pull up playing music super loud. Marshawn Lynch jumps out and walks into the store. I thought about asking for a picture but was in my work clothes and decided not to bother him. I leave to go pick up Junior…. What I didn’t know was that I dropped my wallet. When I got home about 10 minutes later my neighbor knocks on door. She told me I would never guess who brought this to her…. I had no clue, but when she said Marshawn Lynch I was shocked ! I guess I was so distracted by the van pulling up I dropped my wallet. My neighbor said Marshawn, Ricardo Lockette and a cameraman were headed to Marysville Pilchuck and decided to bring it to me on the way there. My neighbor tried asking for a pic but they politely refused and their only concern was that I got my wallet back. I can’t thank them guys enough for bringing it back and for making my neighbor a very happy lady for getting to a chance to meet them.”

So, liquor delivery is an actual thing. In Seattle. Curbed Seattle tried out Drizly, a new app that brings local booze straight to your door in 40 minutes. Read all the details here.

Mark Driscoll, the former leader of the now-defunct megachurch Mars Hill, has listed his home in Montlake for $650,000. The Puget Sound Business Journal reports that the abode is a “seven-bedroom, 3,370 square foot home with a view of the ship canal, Husky Stadium and the Cascade mountain range that was built in 1921.” It’s also apparently already under contract.

Would you like to know the nitty-gritty on identity theft? A convicted identity thief here in Seattle let KIRO News in on all of her secrets, including how she picks her victims and gets away with it. Hint: Don’t leave personal information in your car.

King County Metro has failed to provide its bus drivers with adequate bathroom breaks, resulting in many of them wearing adult diapers on the job or carrying an empty jar. Yikes. Crosscut spoke to Neal Safrin, vice president and assistant business representative of Amalgamated Transit Union, who revealed that “the lack of bathroom facilities has gotten so severe vehicle maintenance crews have told him they annually replace 60 urine-soaked driver seats.”

 

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